{"id":14043,"date":"2017-11-20T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:49:21","slug":"brushing-up-on-cold-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2017\/11\/20\/brushing-up-on-cold-remedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushing Up on Cold Remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first week in November, I felt a tickle in my throat. Within twenty-four hours, this developed into a full-fledged head cold. Fever, sore throat, stuffy nose. Misery. As the symptoms dragged on, I found myself wanting a miracle cure. As the article suggests, I learned that the miracle cure is rest, plenty of fluids and time. Lots and lots of time.<\/p>\n

Cold and flu season is the perfect opportunity for us to brush up on evidence-based remedies. For background information, take a look at the Common Cold <\/a>page on MedlinePlus. This page links to many reputable resources for guidance on ways to distinguish colds, flu and allergy; to learn the best uses of humidifiers; and to view\u00a0an illustrated explanation<\/a> of the common cold. MedlinePlus is a great resource for dispelling myths, such as the need for antibiotics<\/a> for runny noses.<\/p>\n

Curious about natural remedies? MedlinePlus links directly to\u00a0National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)<\/a>\u00a0for Treatment and Therapies information. NCCIH discusses scientific studies on American ginseng, echinacea, garlic, honey, meditation, probiotics, saline nasal irrigation, vitamin C and zinc.<\/p>\n

To explore susceptibility to colds, NCCIH links to relevant research on this web page<\/a>, such as: Cohen S, Janicki-Deverts D, Doyle WJ, et al. Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk.\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America<\/i>. 2012;109(16):5995-5999. doi:10.1073\/pnas.1118355109<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those of us who want to look deeper into the medical literature, the same NCCIH web page links to this PubMed search:<\/p>\n

Filter: systematic
\nMeSH Terms: humans
\nPublication Type: meta-analysis; review
\nmajor: influenza, human; complementary therapies; common cold
\nlang: English<\/p>\n

A great jumping-off place for performing your own literature searches.<\/p>\n

Stand Up for Health<\/h3>\n

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is teaming up with the Public Library Association for a new initiative called “Promoting Healthy Communities”. We will be working together to increase library staff* knowledge and skills related to reliable health information resources. If you work in a public library, please consider attending our Public Library Association preconference\u00a0on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.<\/p>\n

*This initiative is intended for anyone who works in a public library, regardless of educational degrees or job description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first week in November, I felt a tickle in my throat. Within twenty-four hours, this developed into a full-fledged head cold. Fever, sore throat, stuffy nose. Misery. As the symptoms dragged on, I found myself wanting a miracle cure. As the article suggests, I learned that the miracle cure is rest, plenty of fluids… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,10],"tags":[290,143,192],"class_list":["post-14043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-nlm_resources","tag-integrative-health","tag-medlineplus","tag-professional-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15037,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions\/15037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}