{"id":62665,"date":"2012-07-13T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=62665"},"modified":"2012-07-16T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:21:35","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-bug-season-protect-yourself-the-natural-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/07\/it%e2%80%99s-bug-season-protect-yourself-the-natural-way\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Bug Season \u2013 Protect Yourself the Natural Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9V0VQDghgZg&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the fear of bugs or the sun stop you from enjoying the outdoors this summer. If your skin is sensitive or you worry about the chemicals in some repellents and sunscreens, there are natural, toxic-free alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Meagen McCusker, dermatologist at the UConn Health Center, has checked out a number of products and found several that are safe and effective in protecting you from bugs or the sun\u2019s damaging rays.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and learn which sunscreens and repellents McCusker recommends during an interview with NBC Connecticut\u2019s Todd Piro.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health Center dermatologist says there are lots of chemical-free repellents that keep the bugs at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":62670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-62665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 07:20:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62665"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62769,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62665\/revisions\/62769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/62670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62665"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=62665"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=62665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}