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.
If administered early, antibiotics can help decrease the duration of symptoms (by about 1 day), and they can also make individuals less contagious within 24 hours of initiating treatment. More importantly, antibiotics are effective in preventing the uncommon potential complications of strep throat. Without antibiotic treatment, strep throat will generally improve on its own within 2 to 5 days, as it is a self-limited disease that will run its course without complications in the majority of cases. The full course of antibiotics should be taken, even if the individual is feeling better after a few days.