{"id":86137,"date":"2024-12-02T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=86137"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:38:32","slug":"watch-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-common-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/watch-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-common-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Everything you need to know about the common cold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Contrary to popular belief, the common cold isn\u2019t caused by cold weather or spending too much time outdoors with wet hair. It\u2019s caused by one of several viruses and is often spread through airborne droplets, like when someone coughs or sneezes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are most likely to have colds during the fall and winter, probably because people spend more time indoors during the cooler seasons, and therefore more time in close proximity to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, there\u2019s no medicine available to cure or shorten the duration of the common cold \u2014 but there are treatments that may help relieve some of your symptoms, as well as ways to help you avoid getting sick in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, infectious diseases expert Dr. Michaeline McGuinty shares helpful advice to guide you through cold season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The common cold: everything you need to know \ud83e\udd27\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eCIoLKy6z_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though researchers have yet to find a cure for the common cold, the advice in this video is not to be sniffed at. Infectious diseases expert Dr. Michaeline McGuinty shares treatments, prevention tips and more guidance to help you through cold season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":86138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[393,412],"class_list":["post-86137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-education","tag-population-health"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}