What should I eat or NOT eat to help clear a cold??

Question

I know there are some foods out there that aids the cold. For example, chicken broth soup. It thins out the mucus and some other things that I forget. What shouldn't I eat?

Right now, my sinus feels pressured, I have a stuffy nose, and my throat feels sore. It only started today. I know that eating medicine is probably the best way, but I still want to know...
Help please? Any would be greatly appreciated!! (>++)>

Answer 1

Orange juice, chicken noodle soup, and some english breakfast tea will do the trick. :] ♥♥ I hope you feel better!! ♥ ^_^

Answer 2

Soup and a lot of beverages especially Gatorade or Pedialite. No milk products because it thickens the phlegm and its bad. I find spicy foods to help a lot because it clears my nostrils and makes you sweat and I don't know but I think it works. If your throat is sore, cold things can be soothing, but no milk. Try fruit pops. Also orange juice is good. Hope you feel better!

Answer 3

You are right about the chicken soup and Taylor is about the milk. Many dairy products can do this. Chocolate isn't good either. Most things creamy like may cause problems. Hot coffee or Green Tea would help you. It makes it easier to breath. Peppermint is good also. In your tea.Hope you get feeling better.

Answer 4

don't drink or eat anything creamy--dairy--like milk-it cause more mucous in your throat. No acidy juices--apple, orange, pineapple.
The best thing i do for myself is homemade chicken noodle soup--not the canned--the natural chicken broth is good for you and hot green tea with honey and lemon to soothe your throat and cough-clear your nose.
If you have a cold vaporizer that is good too--or literally rub Vicks Vapo-rib on your chest and under your nose before bedtime to help relax and breath.
Sometimes a nice warm soaking bath helps. sorry you're feeling poorly.

Answer 5

Don't eat anything that hurts your throat or sinuses. Skip spicy foods. No milk products. Avoid anything too cold, like granita. Lay off the booze for a while. Definitely no smoking.

Take in a lot of fluids, especially citrus juices for vitamin C.

Answer 6

In a feeling definite. this isn't any longer a majic bullet although. The peppers interior the salsa are what "clean up" your nostril. The capsaisum interior the peppers additionally reason a launch of endorphines which make you sense greater acceptable. there's a splash learn being performed that have pointed out some suspisions that it may additionally velocity the healing time of undemanding viral infections. i could nevertheless persist with your mom's treatment. relax, fluids, and poultry soup. however the addition of chips and salsa particularly won't harm. yet once you have a sore throat merely bypass away out the chips!

Answer 7

In addition to not consuming any dairy products (Milk, cheese), you shouldn't eat any sugar either. Sugar slows the immune system to a crawl.

You should take 1,000mg of L-Lysine on empty stomach 3 times a day. It helps the body deal with any virus quite effectively.

Answer 8

As mentioned above, no dairy. Lots of OJ is good, as is oranges. The magic fruit to cure a cold: BANANAS. I swear i've done a lot of research on the topic, bananas have been proven very helpful to the common cold.

Answer 9

I eat really hot and spicy salsas, that clears my sinuses very good and it makes me feel so much better. I also drink the broth, but FRESH, not like campbell's or anything like that. I do that for my kids as well and it works very good. Try tortilla soup, it's spicy and brothy!

Answer 10

ANY dairy products will produce more phlegm, which is not what you want. I realized that a personal remedy of spicy ramen noodles and drinking green tea helps clear my sinuses immensely :]
Hope you feel better!