If you are diagnosed with strep, you will stop being contagious approximately 24 hours after starting an antibiotic. Antibiotics should help alleviate your symptoms within one or two days, although in some people the symptoms may last up to a week.
Testing can be done before a baby is born to find out if it has thalassemia and determine how severe it may be. Tests used to diagnose thalassemia in fetuses include: 1  Chorionic villus sampling. 2  This test is usually done around the 11th week of pregnancy and involves removing a tiny piece of the placenta for evaluation.3  Amniocentesis.f your doctor suspects your child has thalassemia, he or she may confirm a diagnosis using blood tests. If your child has thalassemia, blood tests may reveal: 1  A low level of red blood cells. 2  Smaller than expected red blood cells.
Beta thalassemia. You need both alpha-and beta-globin to make hemoglobin. Beta thalassemia occurs when one or both of the two genes that make beta-globin don't work or only partly work as they should. 1  If you have one damaged gene, you may have mild anemia and probably won't need treatment.2  This is called beta thalassemia minor or beta thalassemia trait. A gene test to see if you have the genes that cause thalassemia. 2  An iron level test. 3  A blood test that measures the amounts of different types of hemoglobin, to help find out which type of thalassemia you have.