{"id":4969,"date":"2010-06-26T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20contact%20us.\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:49:25","slug":"tonsils-adenoids-ears-nose-and-throat-fact-or-fiction-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/tonsils-adenoids-ears-nose-and-throat-fact-or-fiction-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonsils &#038; Adenoids: Ears, Nose and Throat Fact or Fiction Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Tonsils &amp; Adenoids<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Tonsils and adenoids filter bacteria out of what we swallow and breathe.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Fiction!<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Any filter that could strain out microscopic material would not allow the passage of any food particles and would make eating impossible. Tonsils and adenoids are strategically located near the entrance to the breathing passages where they catch incoming infections. They &#8220;sample&#8221; bacteria and viruses and can become infected themselves. It is thought that they then help form antibodies to those &#8220;germs&#8221; as a part of the body&#8217;s immune system to resist and fight future infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonsils &amp; Adenoids Tonsils and adenoids filter bacteria out of what we swallow and breathe. Fiction! Any filter that could strain out microscopic material would not allow the passage of any food particles and would make eating impossible. Tonsils and adenoids are strategically located near the entrance to the breathing passages where they catch incoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"What role do tonsils and adenoids play in protecting us against bacteria?","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sinusitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbenke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}