{"id":6912,"date":"2022-08-27T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2022-08-27T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:45:51","slug":"what-can-be-mistaken-for-strep-throat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/27\/what-can-be-mistaken-for-strep-throat\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can Be Mistaken for Strep Throat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-19\">Strep throat is not the only infection that can cause a sore throat. In fact, viral illnesses that cause a sore throat are more common than strep throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-21\">There are a few ways that strep throat is different from a sore throat from a viral infection, and these symptoms can help you to know if you have strep throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-23\">Strep throat may start suddenly with a fever. Sore throats from viral infections tend to happen gradually.\u00a0If you have strep throat, you usually do not have a cough. A sore throat from a virus is more likely to have a cough with it, along with other cold symptoms like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-25\"><li>A runny nose<\/li><li>A hoarse voice<\/li><li>An eye infection commonly called &#8220;pink eye&#8221; (conjunctivitis)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The main symptom of strep throat is a sore throat that starts suddenly with a fever and chills. Your tonsils might be red and swollen. They might also have white streaks or pus on them. You might also have fatigue and a headache, but cough is usually not a strep throat symptom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strep throat is not the only infection that can cause a sore throat. In fact, viral illnesses that cause a sore throat are more common than strep throat. There are a few ways that strep throat is different from a sore throat from a viral infection, and these symptoms can help you to know if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}