Do you still get strep infections as an adult?

[Jynnifer292]

 I had them all the time as a kid, really bad, but this is only the second time in about twenty years that I have had it. I wonder if you built up a bit of an immunity to it as you grow older or if it is just because we are more conscientious about germs.

I forgot how friggin bad it hurts. My throat looks like a science experiment and the glands in my neck are all swollen.

[AMBG825]

I have gotten them twice a year since I was a kid. Usually mine start off as tonsilitis then progresses for some reason. 

[143myboys9496]

 Yes you can still get strep throat as an adult.

You can also get it if your tonsils have been removed.

Hope you feel better soon.

[Jynnifer292]

 

Quoting 143myboys9496:

 Yes you can still get strep throat as an adult.

You can also get it if your tonsils have been removed.

Hope you feel better soon.

 Thanks, I know that you can get it. It just seems like a lot of adults  that I know don't get it anymore, even when they had it a lot as kids.

[Jynnifer292]

 

Quoting AMBG825:

I have gotten them twice a year since I was a kid. Usually mine start off as tonsilitis then progresses for some reason. 

 That's no good. I had it once a few years ago after an appendectomy. They kept me in the hospital for a few days. I am pretty sure I picked it up there. The sore throat was worse than the surgery.

[rgba]

I used to get it all the time, even as an adult, but now haven't had it in 15 years.

[cryssi_renee]

I never had it as a child. I had it for the first time last year at 27.  It was awful. 

I bronchitis almost every year growing up and I've only had it once as an adult. 

[Jynnifer292]

 

Quoting rgba:

I used to get it all the time, even as an adult, but now haven't had it in 15 years.

 I had it so much as a kid, my throat has pits in it from all of the infections. I think only one of my kids has ever had it, knock on wood. Fifteen years is a long time when you got it all the time. That was why I wondered if we build up kind of a resistance to it. It could just be that adults wash their hands more and don't typically cough on each other. :)

[christina0607]

I have only gotten strep as an adult. I really never got sick as a child.

[FooLynRoo]

I've only had strep twice in my life once as a kid and once as an adult.

[MommyLehr]

I never really got it As a kid. But I've gotten it every spring since I was 17. Never fails.