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.
There's good evidence that a 10-day treatment with penicillin will stop strep throat, Dr. Gonzales said, whereas if you stop the drug after three days or five days, the patient will tend to relapse. But strep throat only accounts for about 10 percent of all the sore throats that walk in the door of the clinic..