{"id":49759,"date":"2026-11-07T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/can-you-take-antibiotics-to-cure-a-cold\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:34:51","slug":"can-you-take-antibiotics-to-cure-a-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/can-you-take-antibiotics-to-cure-a-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Take Antibiotics to Cure a Cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a doctor won\u2019t prescribe antibiotics for a cold, patients can feel like their provider doesn\u2019t appreciate how sick they are.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it comes down to what\u2019s going to work for your cold, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/providers\/morgan-white-md\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/providers\/morgan-white-md\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article Links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"9\" mrfobservableid=\"bbbeeb57-9865-4ec9-9d15-0a527b32759f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morgan White, MD<\/a>, a family medicine physician at UW Health and assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. \u201cYour doctor wants to recommend the right tool for the job,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than giving you an antibiotic for a cold, treatment should focus on easing the symptoms that bother you most, says Dr. White.<\/p>\n<p>Dumford agrees: \u201cThe right call is to talk you through how to mitigate your symptoms while the virus runs its course,\u201d rather than put you at further risk by taking an antibiotic that won\u2019t help, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The following strategies can offer relief.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/infectious-diseases\/can-you-take-antibiotics-to-cure-a-cold\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a doctor won\u2019t prescribe antibiotics for a cold, patients can feel like their provider doesn\u2019t appreciate how sick they are. In reality, it comes down to what\u2019s going to work for your cold, says Morgan White, MD, a family medicine physician at UW Health and assistant professor of family medicine and community health at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[3349,36],"class_list":["post-49759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}