Can I have coffee if I catch a cold?

Although the incidence of colds is mostly in autumn and winter, with global warming, environmental pollution and other problems becoming more and more serious, colds can occur almost all the year round, day and night, all the time. In addition to medication for colds, diet is also very important. If we can pay attention to scientific and reasonable symptomatic conditioning, we can restore our health and physical fitness as soon as possible and avoid terrible cold complications.

People especially need adequate rest when they have a cold and fever. The large amount of caffeine in coffee will force the patient to cheer up, affect the quality of rest, make the patient's mental state worse, and then aggravate the condition. Moreover, when people have a cold and fever, they should eat foods that are low in calories and easy to digest. Coffee with partners and granulated sugar is high in calories. Drinking it will only aggravate the already uncomfortable stomach and intestines.

From the perspective of drugs, there are many kinds of cold drugs, including anti-allergy, antipyretic and analgesic, antiviral, antitussive and expectorant, antihistamine, central excitement and so on, as well as some proprietary Chinese medicines. Cold medicine generally contains phenylpropanolamine, which, if taken with caffeine, is likely to cause a sharp rise in blood pressure. In addition, the caffeine in coffee has an adverse effect on some sedative drugs, and the cold medicine we usually take usually contains certain sedative ingredients. As for antipyretic analgesics and central excitatory cold drugs, many of them contain caffeine. If you drink coffee after taking it, it will further increase the stimulation to the gastric mucosa, cause stomachache and other discomfort, and affect the efficacy of cold medicine. So patients with colds, especially those with stomach ulcers, must not drink coffee after taking medicine, let alone alcohol and alcoholic beverages. As for the idea of taking medicine with coffee or tea, it is even worse.

So, even if you are a coffee enthusiast, if you have a cold, you can drink boiled water from a brown cup, cover it with a thick quilt covered with coffee beans, and listen to the warm whispers of your family like coffee. But just remember not to drink coffee if you catch a cold.