What You Should Know About Strep Throat and the Amoxicillin Shortage

Photo credit: Denis Tabler via Shutterstock. Article by Beth Skwarecki. Lifehacker – April 12, 2023.

Group A strep is one of the childhood illnesses that responds to antibiotics, but there’s a shortage.

You or your kids may already be familiar with strep throat; I know I had to suffer through lots of throat swabs and pink liquid medicine as a kid. But the medication to treat it is in short supply right now, and the CDC has recently warned that they’re seeing an uptick in cases of the more severe forms of group A strep. Here’s what that all means. […]

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