What are the symptoms of group b strep?

Answer 1

throat pain, difficulty swallowing, red and swollen tonsils, sometimes with white watches, tiny red spots on the back roof of your mouth, swollen, tender glands in your neck, fever, headache, rash and stomachache.

Answer 2

Sore throat, cough, fever, throat congestion. But these symptoms are associated with other type of infections like flu also. Send a throat swab for culture and sensitivity. If Streptococcus pyogenes is isolated, then only we can say it is a "strep throat".

Answer 3

There are no symptoms of carrying group B Strep.

Group B Strep can cause infection in newborn babies - usually within the first 6 days of life, and increasingly rarely after that, until after 3 months of age it's very rare indeed.

Symptoms of early onset GBS infection (age 0-6 days) include:

• grunting;

• lethargy;

• irritability;

• poor feeding;

• very high or low heart rate;

• low blood pressure;

• low blood sugar;

• abnormal (high or low) temperature; and

• abnormal (fast or slow) breathing rates with blueness of the skin due to lack of oxygen (cyanosis).

Symptoms of late onset GBS infection (age 7-90 days) may include one or more of the following:

• fever;

• poor feeding and/or vomiting; and

• impaired consciousness.

Typical symptoms of meningitis in babies, including GBS meningitis (any of these could develop but some may not be present at all) include:

• fever, which may include the hands and feet feeling cold, and/or diarrhoea;

• refusing feeds or vomiting;

• shrill or moaning cry or whimpering;

• dislike of being handled, fretful;

• tense or bulging fontanelle (soft spot on the head);

• involuntary body stiffening or jerking movements;

• floppy body;

• blank, staring or trance-like expression;

• abnormally drowsy, difficult to wake or withdrawn;

• altered breathing patterns;

• turns away from bright lights; and

• pale and/or blotchy skin.

Answer 4

You get fever and sore throat.