What foods are best for gastrointestinal colds?

For children with gastrointestinal colds, diet is the first choice, because a reasonable and healthy diet can also help with auxiliary treatment. They can eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, but be careful to avoid fried and various greasy foods.

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The degree of food intake should be controlled on the premise of ensuring the energy supply of the whole body. This is a question of diet quality. Patients with colds are advised to eat more light and easily digestible foods, such as rice porridge, noodles, etc., and avoid eating fried and greasy foods. Some people even propose "fasting therapy", that is, stop eating after catching a cold and only drink soup, which sometimes has unexpected effects. Of course, this method is not suitable for everyone, but it can be tried for patients who are usually strong and have mild colds. Please don't forget to have enough energy reserves, otherwise the result will be counterproductive.

2. Eat fruits and vegetables. Since fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods, they are not conducive to the reproduction of viruses and other microorganisms after consumption. Therefore, eating more foods rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins can have a certain inhibitory effect on viruses. People all know that they should eat easily digestible liquid foods, such as vegetable soup, porridge, egg soup, egg custard, milk, etc., and they also know that they should eat more foods rich in vitamin C and vitamin E. But what people don’t know is that red foods are rich in carotene, such as tomatoes, apples, grapes, dates, strawberries, etc., which are also very helpful for recovering from colds.

3. Focus on which foods should be avoided when you have a cold. This aspect is related to taking medicine, that is, avoiding certain foods after taking the medicine. On the other hand, attention should be paid to its relationship with the disease. In the early stage of a cold, if it is caused by wind-cold and you are taking antipyretics, you should avoid eating raw, cold and greasy food. If it is caused by heat, you should also avoid eating raw and cold food in the early stage of clearing the cold. Once the heat is not gone and high fever remains, you will feel thirsty, irritable and constipated. At this time, you need the help of fruits. You can frequently drink pear juice, orange juice, watermelon, rice soup, mung bean soup, etc. Avoid eating too much raw, cold and greasy food.

4. When choosing different medicines and foods, it is best to ask a doctor to diagnose or judge by yourself what type of cold you have: Although most colds are caused by viruses, you cannot just take the same medicine for this reason, such as the antiviral, short-course Quick Capsules. Because different colds have different symptoms. For example, wind-cold colds (which are common in winter and troublesome) are manifested by fever, fear of cold, headache, itchy throat, general discomfort, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and thin white sputum, etc.; wind-heat colds are manifested by severe fever, headache, sore throat, thirst, cough and yellow sputum, etc.; symptoms of both external and internal colds are high fever, headache and dizziness, sore limbs, sore throat, dry stool, etc.; symptoms of gastrointestinal colds are fever, nausea, headache, fatigue in the limbs, etc.