how many doses of antibiotics before you aren't contagious?

[lizajane]

i have strep and i am taking a z-pac. thanks.

[kristenk]

I've heard that you're not contagious after you've been on an antibiotic for 24 hours. I'm not sure if that's a general rule of thumb or the actual truth for all antibiotics.

[SnuggleBuggles]

Ds has to stay home from preschool 24 hours from starting antibiotics so I figured that was the contagious period. I called his ped to verify and she did.

So, 24 hours you are OK from what I have heard.

Feel better soon! Strep throat just worked it's way through my house. I remember feeling pretty awful for about 1 day and got better pretty quickly after. Take lots of ibuprofen if you can. Our Dr. had dh and I on 800mg/ 4X a day.

Beth

[shilo]

someone posted this here at one point and i bookmarked it... very helpful...

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/pa/pa_incubate_hhg.htm

hth, lori
Sam 5/19/05 How lucky I am that you chose me.

[mapg]

The last time my daughter had step and had a z-pak, the doc said she could go to school the next day. Boy was she mad.