Can I eat instant noodles when I have a cough?

Generally, people will experience coughing symptoms after having a fever or a cold. At this time, you should pay attention to drinking more water and keeping warm. In addition, you should eat more light food and it is best not to eat too greasy food. For example, it’s best not to eat instant noodles. Not only do instant noodles have no nutritional value, but people with a cold have poor resistance and their condition can easily be aggravated, so it is recommended to pay attention to a scientific diet.

If you have a cough, you can eat instant noodles, take oral cold medicine, drink more water, and keep warm. The diet should be light, and spicy, greasy, raw and cold food should be avoided.

Coughing is a protective reflex action of the human body to clear secretions or foreign objects from the respiratory tract. Although it has its upside, severe and prolonged coughing can lead to respiratory bleeding. There are many reasons for coughing, such as irritation cough and inflammation-induced cough. You need to do a blood test and a chest X-ray to see if there is congestion in the pharynx. If it is caused by inflammation, you need to actively use antibiotics to control the infection. Eating instant noodles has no effect on coughing.

When you have a cough, you should pay attention to the following seven dietary taboos:

1: Avoid cold food. It is not advisable to drink cold or frozen drinks when you have a cough. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "a cold body and cold drinks can damage the lungs", which means that once the body is exposed to cold, drinking cold foods can damage the lungs. Coughing is mostly caused by lung diseases that lead to lung qi stagnation and upward flow. If you eat too cold food at this time, it will easily cause blockage of lung qi, aggravating the symptoms and not healing over time.

2. Fatty, sweet and greasy food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. In daily diet, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause internal heat, aggravate cough, and make the phlegm thick and difficult to cough up. For children with asthma, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause phlegm and heat to combine, blocking the respiratory tract, aggravating asthma, and making the disease difficult to cure. Don't eat too much fried food. When children cough, their gastrointestinal function is relatively weak. Fried foods can increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, increase moisture and heat, breed phlegm, and make the cough difficult to cure.

3. Avoid fish, shrimp and crab. Most people know that when you have a cough, you should avoid "irritating foods" and should not eat fish, as fish has the greatest impact on "wind-heat cough". Children with cough will have their cough aggravated after eating fishy foods, which is related to the fishy smell irritating the respiratory tract and the allergy to the protein in fish and shrimp foods. Children who are allergic to certain fish and eggs should be more careful, among which silver carp and hairtail are the most affected.

4: Avoid sweet and sour foods. Sour food often causes phlegm to accumulate, making it difficult to cough up, thus aggravating the condition and making the cough difficult to cure. When the cough is severe, it is not advisable to eat apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, etc. Eating sweets will also increase heat, making the inflammation difficult to cure. People have the custom of stewing raw pears with rock sugar to treat coughs. However, this way of eating is inappropriate for a new cough.

5. Avoid eating oranges. Many people believe that oranges can relieve coughs and reduce phlegm, so they let children with coughs eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, but orange flesh can generate heat and phlegm. It is impossible for ordinary children to eat only the peel without eating the orange flesh.

6. Avoid eating peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate, etc. The above-mentioned foods contain a lot of fat, which can easily breed phlegm after eating and aggravate the cough.

7. Avoid taking supplements. Many parents give supplements to their children with weak constitutions, but they should stop taking the supplements if the child's cough has not healed, so as to avoid making the cough difficult to heal.