Primary Treatment: Antibiotics. Proper diagnosis is the biggest challenge!

Antibiotics are usually the primary treatment for Lemierre's. In my daughter's case, diagnosis came very late. We kept getting sent home with the possible diagnosis of "strept throat." 

Trying to find an underlying diagnosis for many conditions can be a very long and frustrating experience. With more rare conditions, like Lemierre's, a diagnosis can often take a long time. But the patient may not have the time to wait.

Lemierre's is considered a RARE disease. There are two other names for this disease:

2. Necrobacillosis and 

3. Oropharyngeal infection leading to secondary septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein

The important thing to remember is to keep pushing and be your own child's BEST advocate if doctor's cannot figure out or properly diagnose what's wrong. It's in cases like these you have to be the advocate and be involved. It's not the doctor's fault. 

In our case, I am grateful after a number of trips to the emergency room, one doctor at Scripps Encinitas Medical Center just happened to take a blood test. That is the instance they discovered my daughter Bri had sepsis in her blood. The clot in her jugular vein was spewing out bacteria into her blood. It is that one doctor who made the decision to take a blood test that initially saved her life!