How about drinking coffee when you have a cold or fever?

Colds and fevers are troublesome diseases for people, because they make the body very tired and the spirit sluggish, which seriously affects people's work and life. Therefore, some patients with colds and fevers use coffee to improve their mental strength. What about drinking coffee when you have a cold and fever? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

1. Note: After taking cold medicine, especially cold medicine containing central nervous system stimulants or caffeine, be sure not to drink coffee or tea, because coffee and tea not only irritate the stomach and intestines, but also affect the effectiveness of the medicine.

2. Antipyretic and analgesic cold medicines and central nervous system stimulant cold medicines are very irritating to the gastric mucosa. In particular, most central nervous system stimulant drugs contain caffeine. If you drink coffee or strong tea after taking them, it will further increase the irritation to the gastric mucosa, causing stomach pain and other discomfort, and will affect the efficacy of the medicine. It is recommended that patients with colds, especially those suffering from gastric ulcers, should not drink coffee or tea after taking medicine, let alone drink alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

3. Cold and flu medicines generally contain phenylpropanolamine. If taken together with high-dose caffeine products, it may cause a sudden increase in blood pressure, which may be fatal in severe cases.

First, avoid eating too many eggs: Eggs are indeed rich in nutrients, but it is not advisable to eat too many eggs during a fever. This is because the protein in the eggs will produce a certain amount of extra heat after being decomposed in the body, which will increase the body's heat, aggravate fever symptoms, prolong fever time, and increase the patient's pain.

Second, avoid drinking too much tea: drinking strong tea will keep the brain in an excited state, speed up the pulse, and increase blood pressure, which will in turn increase the patient's body temperature and make him irritable. At the same time, tea water will affect the decomposition and absorption of drugs and reduce their efficacy.

Third, avoid drinking too much cold drinks: If the fever is caused by infectious diseases such as bacterial dysentery caused by unclean food, the gastrointestinal function will be weakened, and drinking too much cold drinks will aggravate the condition, and even worsen it and endanger life.