{"id":1261,"date":"2018-03-29T07:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2018-03-27T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T06:07:22","slug":"maybe-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/maybe-the-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J has been sick for the last few days with a fever, headache, etc. Sounds like the flu to me, although he did get the vaccine. Get better soon!<\/p>\n<p>J wondered if he should get <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oseltamivir\">Tamiflu<\/a>, the antiviral treatment. Out of interest, I researched it and&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t sound that good. It only shortens symptoms by 1\/2 &#8211; 1 day on average, and has side effects of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and trouble sleeping (much like the flu). It isn&#8217;t recommended for otherwise healthy people, but it also doesn&#8217;t decrease the risk of hospitalization or death in high risk people, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing about Tamiflu is that it was originally synthesized from a compound found in star anise. So maybe you can just drink star anise concentrate (that sounds like pho!) to get better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J has been sick for the last few days with a fever, headache, etc. Sounds like the flu to me, although he did get the vaccine. Get better soon! J wondered if he should get Tamiflu, the antiviral treatment. Out of interest, I researched it and&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t sound that good. It only shortens symptoms &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/maybe-the-flu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe the flu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}