tonsillitis

Tonsillitis is a good example: About 50% of tonsillitis cases are viral and 50% bacterial.

Sometimes you have to take it in the chin like a man and spend 5 or 6 days with tonsillitis and congestion.

When you have a bad flu or tonsillitis or something, there is no choice.

When I was in my mid 20's I went through a period where I had constant tonsillitis.

Medical costs are the worst kind of lottery, where an overnight visit for tonsillitis can get you a nice little $100,000 bill [8].

We thought she had tonsillitis as she had no other symptoms, but then after she infected 2 other older people, their symptoms were worse.

I had strep multiple times in my life, including tonsillitis that nearly hospitalized me one time.

Doctors here have effectively stopped prescribing antibiotics for things they prescribed it for almost always just a few years ago, such as regular tonsillitis.

The only time she took me was for ear infections and tonsillitis.

Two days into it and on a second throat inspection, I found I had follicular tonsillitis - probably caught from my kid.

I wasn't diagnosed until I was older, but I suspect it started mildly in my 20s after a long bout of tonsillitis.

Had my tonsillectomy when I was 4 due to a severe tonsillitis infection.

"Relying on clinical presentation and history alone is unreliable in differentiating streptococcal from viral tonsillitis."[1] And bacterial tonsillitis can be quite serious.

I personally discovered this the hard way when I randomly caught a case of mumps despite having been vaccinated as a child with the MMR vaccine (my dumbass doctor thought I had "mild-tonsillitis" and sent me home with antibiotics) Not sure where I caught it from but thankfully it was mild and I recovered after 10 days of absolute misery.

Tonsillitis seems a common reason for giving antibiotics, as it is very effective against bacterial tonsillitis.