{"id":275,"date":"2015-02-12T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familife.in\/en\/?p=275"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:30:44","slug":"symptoms-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/275-symptoms-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the symptoms of flu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How is the flu diagnosed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to definitely know whether a person has the flu a laboratory test must be done of a swab from inside the nose or the throat. A doctor who considered it necessary would order the test. For that, a patient must first feel sick enough to go to the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a laboratory test, doctors may also diagnose the flu based on some common symptoms. Signs of the flu include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fever<\/li>\n<li>Chills<\/li>\n<li>Headache<\/li>\n<li>Aches in joints and muscles<\/li>\n<li>Cough<\/li>\n<li>Sore throat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Flu symptoms are similar to those of the common cold, but with the flu a person will fall ill much faster and feel much worse. Also, fever, chills and aches are very common to the flu and rare with a common cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to tell when you or a family member has the flu, and when it might be necessary to see a doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_user_current-owner":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"coauthors":[408],"class_list":{"0":"post-275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familife.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}