What to eat when you have a cold

Cold and flu patients should drink more water, have more rest, eat a light diet, and medication should be taken according to the patient’s specific condition or doctor’s prescription. If a cold patient has no fever, mild symptoms, only cough, sore throat, runny nose and other symptoms, you can buy your own cold medicine; if there is a low fever, but the symptoms are mild, you can carry out physical cooling, and at the same time take cold medicine or symptomatic treatment of drugs; if the degree of fever is more serious or fever does not go away for a long time, you need to go to the hospital for blood or throat swabs, to clarify whether it is bacterial or viral colds, and then If the fever is severe or takes a long time to go down, it is necessary to go to the hospital for blood tests or throat swabs to determine whether it is a bacterial cold or a viral cold, and then treat the cause. In daily life, patients should pay attention to a light diet, eat more easy-to-digest food, and pay attention to a balanced diet, supplementing protein food, which will help recovery. In addition, for the elderly with underlying diseases, people with renal insufficiency or children, it is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment to avoid aggravating the existing diseases.