{"id":44926,"date":"2023-02-15T06:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44926"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:18:42","slug":"medication-cold-meds-to-take-or-not-to-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/medication-cold-meds-to-take-or-not-to-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Medication: cold meds: to take or not to take?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about life in cold season: the tutor shares an age-old question (for some).<\/h2>\n<p>\nSome people believe that, when you have cold symptoms, of course you take cold medication (as directed). Yet, is there another way to see it?<\/p>\n<p>\nI seldom take meds of any kind. A few days in the past few years I&#8217;ve taken cold meds when I didn&#8217;t want my symptoms to manifest. The cold meds work, but sometimes they make me feel a bit off, just because of the medication in my body that it&#8217;s not used to.<\/p>\n<p>\nFacing such a situation, I will bring the cold medication to work &#8211; usually just a single pill &#8211; which I decide to take or not after arriving but before starting. I revisit the decision at coffee break. If by lunch I still haven&#8217;t taken it, I doubtfully will that day.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about life in cold season: the tutor shares an age-old question (for some). Some people believe that, when you have cold symptoms, of course you take cold medication (as directed). Yet, is there another way to see it? I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/medication-cold-meds-to-take-or-not-to-take\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medication: cold meds: to take or not to take?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44933,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44926\/revisions\/44933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}