Can I eat crabs if I have a cold?

Although crabs taste delicious, they are very cold. People with colds or fevers cannot eat crabs, and pregnant women cannot eat crabs. Even ordinary people should not eat too much. People with colds and fevers generally have weak gastrointestinal functions, and crabs are difficult to digest. Eating them can lead to physical weakness, diarrhea, and other conditions. So if you are not feeling well, you should definitely not eat crabs.

Can I eat crabs if I have a cold?

It is not advisable to eat crabs if you have a cold or fever.

Now is the time when crabs are on the market in large quantities. Although crabs are delicious, they may not be suitable for everyone.

According to experts, there are often patients who go to the hospital due to allergies and food poisoning caused by eating crabs. Experts say that crabs are delicious and have high nutritional value. Proper consumption is good for the body, but eating too much can cause symptoms of indigestion such as bloating. For some people who already have illnesses, eating crabs will aggravate their condition, so some patients should not eat crabs.

Crabs are cold foods. People with weak spleen and stomach have difficulty in digesting them. Patients with colds and fevers are also not suitable for eating crabs. Because crabs contain relatively high protein and are cold food in nature, eating crabs at this time will not only be difficult to digest, but will also aggravate the symptoms of typhoid fever.

Traditional Chinese medicine explains that because crabs are aquatic animals and are "cold in nature", some people with weak spleen and stomach have difficulty in digesting the food. It is recommended that you should not eat crabs during a cold.

If patients with cold and fever really need to eat crabs, in order to avoid abdominal pain and diarrhea, they can dip them in ginger and vinegar juice when eating to remove the coldness. Be careful not to eat crabs and persimmons together. Ancient medical books record: "Eating persimmons together with crabs will cause diarrhea." The reason is that crabs are rich in protein, while persimmons contain a lot of tannins. If they are eaten together, they will solidify into hard lumps. In addition, crabs and persimmons are both cold foods, and eating too much at the same time can easily cause discomfort.

Who should not eat crabs?

1. People who are suffering from colds or fever should not eat crabs. People with colds should eat a light diet. Crabs, which are high in protein, are difficult to digest and absorb. Eating them can make the cold difficult to recover or worsen the condition.

2. Elderly people who suffer from diabetes, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, renal and cerebral arteriosclerosis, cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction and other diseases should try to eat less or no crabs to avoid increasing blood lipids and aggravating the above-mentioned diseases.

3. Some children and weak elderly people with indigestion belong to the spleen and stomach deficiency and cold type according to traditional Chinese medicine. They should not eat too many crabs to avoid damaging the spleen and spleen yang, affecting the function of the spleen and stomach, and causing symptoms such as abdominal distension, stomach pain, cold pain, and diarrhea.

4. Patients with gout should not eat crabs due to high uric acid and purine metabolism disorders, so as to avoid gout attacks and aggravation.

5. People who are overweight, especially some middle-aged and young people, do not pay attention to a healthy lifestyle and become obese prematurely, causing diseases such as high blood lipids and fatty liver. If they eat too many crabs, it will also cause discomfort and worsen the condition.

6. People with bile tract diseases such as cholecystitis and cholelithiasis should not eat crabs. The formation of cholecystitis and gallstones is related to excessive cholesterol and metabolic disorders in the body. Eating crabs can easily cause the disease to relapse or become more serious.

Warm reminder: When eating crabs, you can use ginger vinegar as seasoning, which can help digestion and help kill bacteria. You can add some perilla leaves when steaming crabs. Perilla is pungent and warm in nature, can induce sweating and relieve exterior symptoms, promote qi circulation and relieve fullness, and can detoxify fish and crabs. If you feel stomach discomfort after eating crabs, you can boil 15 grams of perilla and 5 slices of ginger and drink it while it is hot. It has the effect of warming the stomach, relieving pain and diarrhea.