{"id":106,"date":"2007-12-20T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/coughing-what-does-it-mean\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T15:01:08","slug":"coughing-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/coughing-what-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Coughing: What Does it Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health.msn.com\/health-topics\/asthma\/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100170727\">This story on MSN.com<\/a> was of particular importance to me, because I have coughing issues. I&#8217;ve been diagnosed with mild asthma and possibly an allergy of some sort. It&#8217;s a life-altering condition, because when a cough attack comes on, it can be uncontrollable and breathtaking, in the most literal sense.<\/p>\n<p>Not to get too much into my psyche and the opinion I have of HMOs, doctors, etc., but I definitely want to be treated and diagnosed by specialists. I just feel like the diagnosis is based on very minimal inquiry. I got a breathing test to see what my lung capacity is, a steth0scope to the chest and back, and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s all that can be done. But, I feel like the docs are just sort of guessing based on minimal testing and then treating symptoms with a pill. Again, maybe that&#8217;s all that can be done. But if there&#8217;s a natural way of treating it (like avoiding something I may be allergic to) or even an alternative like acupuncture, I&#8217;m game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story on MSN.com was of particular importance to me, because I have coughing issues. I&#8217;ve been diagnosed with mild asthma and possibly an allergy of some sort. It&#8217;s a life-altering condition, because when a cough attack comes on, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/coughing-what-does-it-mean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[502,6566,1726,6564,31,6565,6544],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-acupuncture","tag-allergies","tag-asthma","tag-coughing","tag-health-news","tag-hmo","tag-msn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}