Angina - incubation period

In angina, infection of the tonsils, throat, and lymph nodes usually occurs with streptococcal bacteria, pneumococci and staphylococci. This disease is diagnosed in patients of different ages. The people who are ill are contagious, so it is important to know the duration of the incubation period of the sore throat.

What is angina?

It is worth remembering that from what form of angina, its incubation period directly depends. Distinguish such varieties of disease:

1. Catarrhal. This form is considered the most contagious. The frog progresses against a background of severe hypothermia. For this ailment is characterized by a rapid increase in body temperature and inflammation of the lymph nodes.
2. Lacunar. Only 5 days last such a disease. Has the same symptomatology as a catarrhal species. The only difference is that a light yellowish coating appears on the tonsils.
3. Follicular. The length of the disease is 4 days. In fact, this inflammation is a lighter type of lacunar sore throat .
4. Fibrinous. This ailment is an exacerbation caused by an untreated lacunar angina. Sometimes the disease occurs and independently. It is characterized by the appearance of a light yellow coating on the tonsils and the areas adjacent to them. In some severe cases, severe intoxication is noted with subsequent brain damage.
5. Phlegmonous. This variety is an aggravated state of other forms of angina. In addition to raising the body temperature to 40 degrees, there is also a noticeable swelling of the palate, swelling and protrusion of the tonsils, etc.

You can often hear about purulent sore throat. But among medical terms this name does not occur. This is a popular version of the name of the disease, which contains signs of follicular and lacunar angina, which turn into a phlegmonous form. Therefore, the incubation period of purulent angina lasts in each specific case in different ways.

The incubation period of streptococcal angina

It is right to understand that the incubation period of a viral sore throat (as well as an ailment caused by pathogenic bacteria) is represented by a time interval, the onset of which is to infect the patient and the appearance first hints of infection. On average, the incubation period of follicular sore throat is up to a week. But this indicator is relative, because it depends on the pathogen and the immune defenses of the diseased. For example, the incubation period of herpetic sore throat can last about 2 weeks.

The transference of the sore throat can occur after contact with the patient or contact with his personal objects. Reduce the time of infectiousness to 48, or even 24 hours, with antibacterial drugs prescribed for an infected person.