{"id":8073,"date":"2013-10-23T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/cough-and-cold\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:45:54","slug":"cough-and-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/cough-and-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cough and Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<b><i>Dr KK Aggarwal<\/i><\/b><br \/><b>Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee<br \/>President, Heart Care Foundation of India&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cough-and-Cold.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cough-and-Cold.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n*Cough and cold are common in winter and should not be ignored.<br \/>*Throat pain without cough is usually bacterial in origin and needs medical attention.<br \/>*Soar throat with cough is viral in origin and requires no antibiotics.<br \/>*A red-angry looking throat is a dangerous sign and needs urgent medical attention.<br \/>*Do not give aspirin for fever in children.<br \/>*Warm saline gargles can be effective in soar throat.<br \/>*Cough not responding to treatment can be due to acidity.<br \/>*Cough can be the only sign of asthma.<br \/>*One should not cough in handkerchief or in the fist or in hand.<br \/>*One should always cough on the side sleeves of the shirt.<br \/>*A person who is coughing should stay 3-6 feet away from other persons.<br \/>*People who are coughing should not be allowed to go in crowded places.<br \/>*Cough syrups, whether Ayurvedic, allopathic or homoeopathic, may be effective.<br \/>*Cough lasting for more than two weeks should not ignored.<br \/>*No vitamin or herbal products have been shown conclusively to reduce the incidence of common cold.<br \/>*Saline nasal wash is good for common cold.<br \/>*In the absence of secondary bacterial infection, no antibiotics are required in common cold.<br \/>*Vitamin E prophylaxis does not help in prevention of common cold.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr KK AggarwalPadma Shri and Dr B C Roy National AwardeePresident, Heart Care Foundation of India&nbsp; *Cough and cold are common in winter and should not be ignored.*Throat pain without cough is usually bacterial in origin and needs medical attention.*Soar throat with cough is viral in origin and requires no antibiotics.*A red-angry looking throat is a dangerous sign and needs urgent medical attention.*Do not give aspirin for fever in children.*Warm saline gargles can be effective in soar throat.*Cough not responding to treatment can be due to acidity.*Cough can be the only sign of asthma.*One should not cough in handkerchief or <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,66],"tags":[80,108,1879,67],"class_list":["post-8073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","category-useful-informations","tag-health","tag-tips","tag-update","tag-views","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36217,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073\/revisions\/36217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}