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Sore Throat

Home Remedies for Strep Throat Pain

Published Aug,14 2017 | By Melanie Grimes

Strep throat is a bacterial infection caused by the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria. Though the condition usually resolves by itself, according to the National Institutes of Health, it is frequently treated with an antibiotic because of the risk of complications such as rheumatic fever.

Melanie Grimes has been an integrative medical writer, editor and international lecturer since 1990. She teaches at Bastyr University's American Medical College of Homeopathy. The founding editor of the "American Homeopath," she currently edits "Simillimum," the Journal of Homeopathic Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She is also an award-winning screenwriter and published essayist. She attended Barnard, National College of Natural Medicine and Bastyr University.