What foods should not be eaten when you have a dry cough?

Frequent dry coughs are very uncomfortable, so you need to pay attention to reasonable diet adjustments, especially when you have a dry cough, it is not suitable to eat hot foods, such as candy, chocolate, or various sweets, as well as spicy foods.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweets can easily cause heat and phlegm, leading to respiratory problems and aggravating coughs and sputum. Therefore, people with coughs should not eat sweets, such as candy, chocolate, white sugar, brown sugar, preserved fruits, ice cream, etc. They should also not eat fruits with strong sweetness, such as oranges, watermelons, grapes, etc.

2. Raw and cold food often damages the spleen and stomach, causing spleen and stomach dysfunction and weakening the body's recovery function, and increases sputum and aggravates cough. Foods such as popsicles, frozen soda, ice juice, ice cream, etc. are not suitable for consumption.

3. Spicy food can easily induce bacterial infection, invade the tracheal mucosa, aggravate cough, form sticky phlegm, and delay the disease. Therefore, when you have a cough, you must be careful to avoid eating any spicy, warm, or salty foods, such as ginger, chili, pepper, leek, coriander, onion, ginseng, lamb, dog meat, beef, pickles, bacon, etc. Warm fruits such as pineapple, peach, cherry, lychee, bayberry, longan, and plum should also be eaten less. It is forbidden to drink alcohol, smoke, or drink strong tea or coffee.

3. Greasy and fatty foods are often difficult to digest and can easily cause dampness and heat, aggravating the symptoms of phlegm and heat. It is difficult to cough up phlegm, which will prolong the coughing time and cause discomfort such as chest tightness. Therefore, when you have a cough, you should avoid eating fatty meat, cheese, cream cake, roast chicken, fried food, steak, spring rolls, fried dough sticks, fried cakes, thick chicken soup, etc.

4. When you have a cough, you should stay away from all kinds of irritating foods, such as seafood, fish, shrimp, crab, eggs, milk, chicken, duck, scallops, etc., because these fishy foods can easily irritate the respiratory tract, hinder the stomach and spleen, increase phlegm and dampness, induce or aggravate cough, and delay the condition.

5. Sour and astringent tastes, such as vinegar, sauerkraut, sour oranges, garlic grapes, hawthorns, and ripe crabapples and persimmons.