What to pay attention to when you have a cold and fever

  Fever is a common condition, when the patient’s diet is affected, in addition to taking appropriate treatment, diet is also very important. First of all, let’s understand the dietary contraindications when you have a cold and fever. In addition, you should rest more, drink more water, and keep the room ventilated.  When you have a fever, whether you take antipyretic drugs or reduce fever naturally, it is achieved in the form of sweating, and the body will lose a lot of water and salt while sweating to dissipate heat. Therefore, the most important thing you need when you have a fever is water, followed by nutrients. The dietary principle at this time is first to supply sufficient water, followed by a large amount of vitamins, and then to supply the right amount of heat and protein, and the diet should be mainly liquid and semi-liquid.  One avoid eating more eggs: eggs are indeed rich in nutrients, but should not eat more eggs during fever, because the decomposition of protein in the body, will produce a certain amount of extra heat, so that the body heat increased, exacerbating the symptoms of fever, and prolong the fever, increasing the suffering of patients.  Two avoid eating more honey: during the fever should be mainly to clear the heat, should not tonic. Honey is a tonic to benefit the qi, if you take more honey, it will make the patient’s internal heat is not well cleared, eliminated, but also easy to complicate other diseases.  Three avoid drinking cold drinks: If the fever caused by bacterial dysentery and other infectious diseases caused by unclean food, the gastrointestinal tract function is reduced, drinking cold drinks will aggravate the disease, and even make the condition worse and life-threatening.  Four avoid drinking more tea: Drinking strong tea will keep the brain excited, and make the pulse rate accelerated, blood pressure increased, which in turn makes the patient’s body temperature rise, irritability. At the same time, the tea will affect the decomposition of drugs, absorption, reducing the efficacy of drugs.  Five avoid eating spicy: because of the body temperature, the body metabolism, in this case, eat ginger, garlic, chili and other hot spicy food, will help the heat to heat, aggravate the condition, is not conducive to fever and early recovery.  Six avoid forcing to eat: some children with fever, parents often think that fever consumes nutrition, do not eat something that will not work. So, they force the child to eat, and some also desperately give the child to eat highly nutritious food. In fact, this practice is counterproductive, not only can not promote appetite, but also appetite, and even cause vomiting, diarrhea, etc., to aggravate the condition.  Health tips: 1, drink more water when you have a cold and fever, eat something light such as thin rice, do not eat greasy, big fish and meat food, more sleep, cover the quilt to sleep and sweat.  2, cook some white porridge to drink when you have a cold and fever, buy a pound of fresh shiitake mushrooms, thin flesh is better, put only water and a little salt, boil and stew for 15 minutes on low heat, drink the soup and eat the mushrooms while they are hot, do not eat spicy ones. When people have a fever, they consume more energy and their resistance is weaker, so they need more nutrition.