1, cold food. It is not advisable to eat cold or frozen drinks when coughing. At this time, if the diet is too cold, it will easily lead to lung qi occlusion, aggravated symptoms, and will not heal for a long time.
2, fat and sweet food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat, and fried food can increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, help damp and heat, breed sputum, and make cough difficult to heal.
3, fishy shrimp and crab. Cough aggravates after eating fishy food, which is related to fishy smell stimulating respiratory tract and protein allergy to fish and shrimp food. People who are allergic to some fish and eggs should pay more attention, among which silver carp and hairtail have the greatest influence.
4. Sweet and sour food. Sour food often accumulates phlegm, which makes it difficult to cough up phlegm, thus aggravating the condition and making cough difficult to heal. Apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, etc. should not be eaten when coughing is severe. Eating sweets will also help heat up, making inflammation difficult to cure.
5. oranges. Many people think that oranges are cough-relieving and expectorant, so people with cough are asked to eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but orange meat produces heat and phlegm instead.
6, peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate, etc. The above-mentioned foods contain more oil, which is easy to breed sputum after eating and make cough worse.