I used to get strep throat two to three times a year.
Antibiotics certainly did clean up the problem temporarily. I would typically get my doctor to give me
Antibiotics (after she would do her funky bitter orange oil treatments and recommendations to do swabs and gargling and all sorts of stuff that just drove me nuts, because it never actually helped, and my throat just got more and more swollen...)
You do need to make sure that you complete the treatment properly in order for it to go away "for good", but "for good" is never "for good" with it. I'd do the
Antibiotic rounds, but four to six months later, I'd get sick again.
I also had another naturopath who did some muscle testing with me and found a specific immune booster that did an amazing job of knocking out strep throat without
Antibiotics . I was quite shocked, really, because antibiotics were the only thing that had ever seemed to work prior to that, but after that, I could use the immune booster instead. ("Sterinol complex", in case you're wondering, but that was my fix, not necessarily yours.)
Even so, this was, still, just a temporary win against the little devils. Every few months, I'd have strep throat again.
Once I found CureZone and alternative healing, etc., I started cleansing. I also included
Colloidal Silver treatments,
parasite cleansing, zapping... I did some master cleansing, colon cleansing, liver flushing... Lots of stuff.
I haven't had any strep throat in years.
I can't say which of those ultimately cured it.
I can give you what I suspect happened, however. In my case, I had wisdom teeth extracted, and the cavities created are supposed to be excellent breeding grounds for strep and other bacteria. I believe (but can't prove) that my cleansing ultimately cleaned up the breeding areas for good and the source went away, thereby eliminating my strep problem.
So while I can tell you that antibiotics worked for me for strep, it was never a
permanent solution, and it probably won't be with your child, either. But if it were my child in that situation, I wouldn't have any qualms using antibiotics as a temporary measure. The suffering as it continues to get worse is miserable, and I wouldn't want to let my children go through it.