Capillaries are tiny thin-walled blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries and veins and allow the exchange of nutrients and waste between the blood and tissues.
However, one must take into account the reality of patient behavior and the price of unsuccessful or incomplete therapy. Three to six days of oral antibiotics for children with streptococcal throat infection is a safe treatment with a comparable effect to the standard duration of 10 days of penicillin. However, our results must be interpreted with caution in low-income countries where acute rheumatic fever is still a problem.
Rapid strep tests can be performed in most doctor's offices in about 5 minutes. Throat cultures are more accurate but can take up to two days to provide results. Due to the risk of antibiotic resistance, you should not take or ask for antibiotics unless a bacterial infection such as strep throat is confirmed.