What is "strep" called in England?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strep_throat

Our son had strep a while back and my English husband insisted it was a fiary tale made-up condition and that all sore throats are alike and blah blah blah. He also insisted that he had never heard of it in England before, which leads me to believe not that it doesn't EXIST, but that it is called something else. And I can't figure it out! Help, someone?

I dunno what it's called there or if it has a special name but the name is Streptococcus. It's also called Group B Strep or GBS. I think there's even a Group A Strep but im not 100%.

lol @ your husband.

Your husband must not really be English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/ask_the_doctor/strepthroat.shtml

Strep throat is the same.  Maybe he will believe the BBC.

Yes it's the samething here as far as I know!

Yes, it's same. Mono is the only one I can think of  that has a different name here - glandular fever, isn't it?

Oh, I am sure there are others...   My partner once accused me of making up a word...  I told him that I "wanted to get my bangs trimmed."  He then argued with me for an hour about how that wasn't really a word and I must be making it up.  I of course laughed at "fringe" being the word in the UK.  So I can totally understand the OPs husband claiming she made it up.

Yes, it's same. Mono is the only one I can think of  that has a different name here - glandular fever, isn't it?

Yes - it is called that! I had it when I was younger & I kept getting sore throats when I moved here - so much so that they wanted to remove my tonsils....my mom said that they tended not to do that in the US anymore as it doesn't stop sore throats, so I declined. BUT when I get a sore throat & mention strep, I get this look  like I'm making it all up, too! The NHS don't tend to do throat cultures (at least not in my experience) and tend to classify all sore throats as tonsillitis (again, my experience only!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strep_throat

Our son had strep a while back and my English husband insisted it was a fiary tale made-up condition and that all sore throats are alike and blah blah blah. He also insisted that he had never heard of it in England before, which leads me to believe not that it doesn't EXIST, but that it is called something else. And I can't figure it out! Help, someone?

LOL!  I just asked Rich the same thing a few days ago and he had never heard of it.  How is that possible if it's called the same thing?

my English husband insisted it was a fiary tale made-up condition and that all sore throats are alike and blah blah blah.

I have also heard the term "strep" in both the US and the UK, but Marlespo's quote above reminds me that some English people seem to call any cold "the flu". Influenza is a much more serious - possibly fatal - disease.

My partner once accused me of making up a word...  I told him that I "wanted to get my bangs trimmed."  He then argued with me for an hour about how that wasn't really a word and I must be making it up.  I of course laughed at "fringe" being the word in the UK.  So I can totally understand the OPs husband claiming she made it up.

My husband has done something similar. Sometimes, if I misunderstand something he says, and I explain to him it's because Americans don't use that word, or if we use it to mean a different thing, he won't believe me.

I have also heard the term "strep" in both the US and the UK, but Marlespo's quote above reminds me that some English people seem to call any cold "the flu". Influenza is a much more serious - possibly fatal - disease.

They do!

Our students will come in all winter saying, 'I have flu'.  One of the academics always quips, 'If you really had flu, you wouldn't be walking in here gabbing on your mobile moaning about how ill you are.'

Having had influenza a few times in my life, there isn't a cold around that can compare.  Damn, that is ill!  Last time, I wound up spending Xmas in hospital w/pneumonia.  It SUCKED!

The £20 note test is the way to qualify it.  If there's a £20 note lying 10 feet in front of you and you're too ill, feverish and weak to go get it, you have flu.

It is called something else.  um,  what's it called?  something.  let me think.....it would be called a bacterial infection.  Or if there's a rash with it, it's called Scarlet fever. 

The one that gets my family(in the U.S.) is the term chest infection.  Everytime one of my kids gets a chest infection, they say but what does that mean?. 

It is called something else.  um,  what's it called?  something.  let me think.....it would be called a bacterial infection.  Or if there's a rash with it, it's called Scarlet fever. 

It's called Scarlet Fever in the US as well. I was always told it's caused by untreated Strep Throat - I had it when I was a baby because I apparently gave no indication that I wasn't feeling well so my mom didn't know I had strep and it turned into scarlet fever since it went untreated.

My fiance didn't know what Strep was either though... when I asked him what it was called in England then, he just said "a sore throat!" lol. But not all sore throats are strep or a bacterial infection so it didn't make sense to me.

Well, I asked my partner, he knew what strep throat was, though he never had it.  I mark it up for once where I wasn't accused of making something up, or harrased for saying something funny.  In fact he won't allow me to say "ad-ver-tize-ment" I have to say "ad-vert-is-ment" and we still argue about the "silent-h" in "herbs" and how to pronounce "basail".

I've never heard of it either.  Maybe we just refer to it as a sore throat or a throat infection?

Vicky

Strep throat is another name for a sore throat caused by the streptococcal bacteria, ie it's a particular kind of sore throat.   

Marlespo, hasn't your husband ever heard of STREPsils?