You can eat chicken when you have a cold and cough, but you should eat it sparingly. Generally speaking, there are two types of cold and cough, one is wind-cold cold and the other is wind-heat cold. If you have a wind-cold cold, it is possible to drink chicken soup, but eat chicken sparingly. Drinking chicken soup can suppress inflammation in the throat and respiratory tract, which is extremely effective in eliminating symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and sore throat caused by a cold. However, if you have a hot and windy cold, chicken soup may make the cough and sore throat worse. When you have a cold, you need to take more rest, eat a light diet, drink more water, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less spicy and oily food, and avoid smoking and alcohol. Be careful to increase and decrease clothing according to the ambient temperature to avoid catching cold again. When coughing is obvious, you can take oral coughing capsules for treatment. If medication is not effective, you can go to the hospital for infusion treatment.