Tonsillitis with white spots: antibiotics or not?

[Northernlass69]

Happy Christmas! I've had a bad throat for a few days and a bad head, yesterday the white spots turned up on my tonsils, more today. So far I don't have a temperature. Do I need antibiotics? Should I wait and see if it gets better by itself? I think this is what the nhs website says.should I get a script just in case it worsens? I'm going away in a few days. Just not sure if I need to do anything or wait it out.

You can’t tell by looking if viral or bacterial -but you should see a doctor. You can become very unwell indeed with tonsillitis ( from a GP who thought she was going to die when she had tonsillitis🤒)

Oh dear Luna!

I've just had it. Had a fever that wouldn't come down, terrible cough, white spots. I'm pregnant and was prescribed antibiotics - GP told me very sternly to go home and rest. I'm glad you've seen someone now.

Oh no. Just waiting for a pharmacy to open!

Northernlass (love the name by the way!) you can get some pain relief from pharmacy but you need to see a doctor- from another northernlass who now lives many many hours away.