Can I eat watermelon if I have a wind-heat cold? Can I eat watermelon if I have a wind-heat cold?

Watermelon is a very common fruit in people's daily life, especially in summer, which is the season for watermelon production. This leads many people to like to eat some watermelon to achieve the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Many people know that watermelon is a kind of cool food, which makes it taboo for some people with physical diseases to eat watermelon. So, can people with wind-heat cold eat watermelon? What will happen if people with wind-heat cold eat watermelon?

1. Can I eat watermelon if I have a wind-heat cold?

Do not eat watermelon in the early stages of a cold, otherwise it will make the cold worse or prolong the healing time. Whether it is a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold, its early stages are all external symptoms and should be treated with dispersing methods to eliminate the pathogenic factors from the surface. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the interior should not be attacked until the exterior is resolved, otherwise the exterior evil will enter the interior and the condition will worsen. In the early stages of a cold, when the pathogens are on the surface, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking medicine to clear internal heat, which will draw the pathogens into the interior, making the cold worse or prolonging the time to cure. However, when the cold worsens and symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat, and yellow or red urine appear, you can eat some watermelon while taking normal medication to help cure the cold.

2. Five types of people should not eat watermelon

1. Diabetic patients: If diabetic patients eat too much watermelon, it will lead to consequences such as increased blood sugar, and in severe cases, ketoacidosis and coma may occur.

2. Patients in the early stage of a cold: Watermelon is a good fruit for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, but patients in the early stage of a cold should eat it with caution. If you eat watermelon in the early stages of a cold, it will not only fail to cure the disease, but will make it worse or prolong the healing time. Therefore, it is best to eat watermelon when you are recovering from a cold or when your cold is getting worse with high fever and sore throat.

3. People with weak constitution, cold stomach, loose stools and indigestion: eating too much watermelon will cause symptoms such as abdominal distension, diarrhea and decreased appetite. People with poor gastrointestinal digestion and frequent urination at night should not eat too much watermelon.

4. People with renal insufficiency: Eating a large amount of watermelon in a short period of time will increase the water content in the body and exceed the physiological capacity of the body. People with renal insufficiency have a reduced ability to regulate water in their kidneys, and are unable to regulate and excrete excessive water that enters the body in a timely manner, causing a sharp increase in blood volume, which can easily lead to acute heart failure and death.

5. People with oral ulcers: If people with oral ulcers eat more watermelons, some of the normal water needed by the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, thus aggravating the oral ulcers.