{"id":11225,"date":"2018-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/red-tide-may-be-cause-of-florida-beachgoers-breathing-problems\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:03:03","slug":"red-tide-may-be-cause-of-florida-beachgoers-breathing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/red-tide-may-be-cause-of-florida-beachgoers-breathing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Tide May Be Cause of Florida Beachgoers&#8217; Breathing Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Red tide can cause symptoms such as breathing problems as well as skin and throat irritation<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Red tide may be the reason why some beachgoers on Florida&#8217;s Atlantic coast have suffered breathing problems, according to Palm Beach County officials.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said preliminary water tests found the algae that causes red tide, but further testing is needed to determine its concentrations, <i>CBS News\/Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Red tide is a harmful algal bloom that occurs &#8220;when colonies of algae grow out of control while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds,&#8221; according to the National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Red tide has caused a massive die-off of fish and other sea life on Florida&#8217;s Gulf Coast this summer. Red tide can cause symptoms such as breathing problems and skin irritation in some people, <i>CBS\/AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throat irritation is a pretty classic one. People talk about the red tide tickle, sort of a scratchiness or soreness in the throat as well as a cough,&#8221; said Acey Albert, M.D., a board certified internist and pediatrician in Palm Beach, Fla. People who develop symptoms should leave the beach and find someplace cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/red-tide-likely-spreads-in-florida-causing-breathing-problems-for-beachgoers\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>CBS\/AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red tide can cause symptoms such as breathing problems as well as skin and throat irritation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}