Tonsillitis with white spots

[sparklefarts]

Does this always need antibiotics?
It's absolute agony, but only on one side, where it is just a bit white blob now.

Am already away for Xmas so not near my doctor, how do you tell if it needs antibiotics?

[Inittowinit2020]

I had it last Xmas and had to go to walk in for antibiotics. There is a scale they use to assess you, includes temp. Can't remember much more sorry!

[sparklefarts]

Thank you! Haven't checked my temp actually. Yesterday was freezing, today boiling

[sparklefarts]

Husband has it too. Just never know how you're meant to tell if it's viral or bacterial, without just waiting it out I guess

[funmummy48]

The last two times I've had tonsillitis I was refused antibiotics. I was told to gargle with aspirin and that it would go away within 10 days but if it didn't, the GP would prescribe antrobotics after that. It was absolute agony.....it even hurt to swallow my own saliva and I got through lots of packets of Tyrozets and aspirin. It went after 11 days. 😐

[sparklefarts]

Oh grief that's not what I wanted to hear 😂

I guess the bright side is I won't be gaining as much weight over Xmas as usual eh

[SavageBeauty73]

Last time I had tonsillitis I had antibiotics. I was really poorly.

[Haz1516]

With white spots means bacterial I think? (Happy to be corrected)

When I had it, I ended up at a walk in centre on a Saturday evening and they prescribed me penicillin; felt better within two days of taking them.

[RebeccaCloud9]

My daughter had this recently so I looked into it then (nhs website mainly and spoke to gp and pharmacist relatives). No, the white spots can happen with either viral or bacterial so you won't necessarily need antibiotics. Hers went after a couple of days.