i have a bad cough right now and my mom says i can't eat sweet stuff. but why!? i have orange vanilla icecream bars in my refrigerator right now............
2006-11-15 14:35:22 · 9 answers · asked by cocomademoiselle 5 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Anything That has milk in it you might want to avoid. Milk thickens your mucus. If you have allergies or a sinus infection, the mucus drains down your nasal passage and onto your throat irritating it causing you to cough. The milk products will thicken it but on the other hand it will take your body longer to heal and you will stay sick longer. As for sweets I think your Mom is just trying to get you to eat healthier right now so you can get to feeling better.
2006-11-15 14:52:06 · answer #1 · answered by LaHoma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ice cream and other dairy products produce a lot of phlegm in the throat, and can aggravate a cough. It's not the sweet that's at fault, it's the dairy foods, so skip the ice cream bars. Candy, especially hard candy or mints, are actually soothing to a sore throat and will ease a cough. That's why they make cough drops, which are just candy with menthol, honey, or other soothing substances added.
2006-11-15 14:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by gldjns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have been tested for diabetes, see if you can get your doc to do a glucose tolerance test....they usually take 6hrs to do and you have to have your blood drawn every hour, but you may have a hidden diabetic tendency and it would probably show up on that kind of test and not a plain blood sugar. It almost sounds like you have "dumping" that gastric bypass people get when they eat too much sugar....it causes the pancreas to dump a large amount of insulin in a short amt of time and makes your heart race, makes you feel like you want to die....for about 1 hr. There are hidden sugars in the strangest of foods, too, so you aren't sure what can make you "dump". I'd have that checked out by your family doc.
2016-03-28 22:01:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason you should not have sweets in particular when you have a bad cough is because alot of sweet products produce phlegm.....which makes your cough worse......also you need to stay away from sodas which produce alot of phlegm as well......you don't need to choke yourself....common sense for years has taught me to stay away from these foods when I have a cold......ice cream is really bad.....no milk products are good for you at all when you have a cough or cold.
2006-11-15 14:44:49 · answer #4 · answered by jazi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes mom is right.Cold and cough leads to congestion and narrowing of all respiratory tubes.If yo u eat ice cream that worsen the situation it in tern increases cold and cough,be careful dear
2006-11-15 14:41:28 · answer #5 · answered by red rose 5 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it would be better if you ate some hot soup or something. But guess what? There's a chemical in chocolate that stops coughing! It's called theobromide I think. It's best if you suck on some dark chocolate, like baker's chocolate, that way it's not sweet and fattening.
2006-11-15 14:39:52 · answer #6 · answered by rebecca_sld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you want eat stuff that will soothe your throat, get rid of the phlegm, and sweets wont necessarily do anything but hey just drink hot chocolate and hot tea. and that ice cream sounds good but just dont eat so you dont have to go through your mom yelling at you for eating it.
2006-11-15 14:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by ameera 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES OBEY YOUR MOM CAUSE SWEETS ONLY INCREASE YOUR COUGHS. IT ITCHES YOUR THROAT AND THAT'S WHY IT MAKES YOU COUGH CONSTANTLY.
MOMS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!
2006-11-15 14:41:11 · answer #8 · answered by MONKEY_LOVER_1994 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sweet is not harmful but frozen stuff can exacerbate symptoms in some
2006-11-15 14:40:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋