Capillaries are tiny thin-walled blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries and veins and allow the exchange of nutrients and waste between the blood and tissues.
However, one must take into account the reality of patient behavior and the price of unsuccessful or incomplete therapy. Three to six days of oral antibiotics for children with streptococcal throat infection is a safe treatment with a comparable effect to the standard duration of 10 days of penicillin. However, our results must be interpreted with caution in low-income countries where acute rheumatic fever is still a problem.
Treatment with antibiotics should begin within 9 days of the onset of your symptoms. If you do not treat your strep throat with antibiotics, or you do not take all the pills as prescribed by your doctor, you will increase your risk for developing complications like recurrent strep or rheumatic heart disease.