What to eat with a cold and cough



Cold and cough diet needs to be light, easy to digest diet, drugs are mainly symptomatic treatment.

1. Diet: Cold-induced cough should choose easily digested and absorbed foods such as tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, apples and so on. Avoid the intake of fatty meat, fried food, avoid too cold, stimulating, spicy food, avoid smoking and alcohol.

2. Drugs: generally more symptomatic treatment, more rest, drink more water. If the cough is mild, there is no need to use drugs; if the cough is severe or affects the rest, you can choose antihistamines such as chlorpheniramine or cough suppressants such as dextromethorphan.

When the symptoms of cold and cough are obvious or prolonged, you should go to the hospital in time, improve the examination, and standardize the treatment under the guidance of the doctor. The above drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.