You can eat chicken when you have a cold and cough, but eat it sparingly. Generally speaking, there are two kinds of cold and cough, one is wind-cold cold and the other is wind-heat cold. If you have a wind-cold cold, you can drink chicken soup, but eat less chicken. Drinking chicken soup can inhibit inflammation of the throat and respiratory tract, and is extremely effective in eliminating symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and sore throat caused by colds. But if you have a wind-heat cold, chicken soup will only make your cough and sore throat worse. When you have a cold, you need to rest more, eat a light diet, drink more water, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less spicy and greasy food, avoid smoking and alcohol. Pay attention to according to the environment temperature, appropriate increase or decrease clothing, to avoid catching cold again. When the cough is obvious, you can take oral cough Terling capsule for treatment. If the effect of medication is not good, you can go to the hospital for infusion treatment.