You need to pay special attention to your diet after catching a cold, otherwise it may aggravate your condition. For example, don't drink coffee and strong tea at this time, because the brain will be excited after eating these, which will lead to an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, affect sleep and rest, and hinder the recovery process of the disease. Here's what you should eat when you have a cold:

1, chicken soup

Chicken soup can inhibit inflammation of throat and respiratory tract, and effectively eliminate nasal congestion, runny nose, asthma and sore throat. Because chicken is rich in nutrition and contains many kinds of amino acids necessary for human body, it can improve human body's resistance to cold virus, improve blood circulation in throat and nasal cavity, ensure the normal operation of respiratory system, help remove respiratory virus, and have a good effect on cold recovery.

2. Little carrots

Radish has a good effect on preventing and treating colds. The eating method is to chop sweet and juicy radish and squeeze half a cup of juice, then chop ginger and squeeze a small amount of ginger juice, mix it with radish juice, add sugar or honey, stir well and put it in hot water for drinking. Drinking it three times a day can help detoxify and have a good effect on cold recovery.

3. Sugar ginger tea

A cold often has symptoms such as headache, stuffy nose, joint pain, fever and so on, accompanied by fatigue, mostly caused by wind-cold. Brown sugar and ginger can dispel body cold and can be cooked together into soup. Drinking soup 1 or 2 times a day has a good effect on colds.

4. salt

The daily intake of salt is about 5 grams, which helps to prevent and treat colds. Because salt can increase the content of lysozyme in saliva, protect oral mucosal epithelial cells, promote human body to secrete immunoglobulin A and interferon, and can effectively fight cold virus.

5. onions (surname)

Welsh onion can improve human immune function, help the body treat cold virus, relieve cough and resolve phlegm. Cooking with onions can effectively prevent colds.

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