You can eat eggs if you have a cold.

Whether from the science books, newspapers and magazines, as well as some Web sites are popular saying that "fever can not eat eggs". The reason given is often "eggs in the protein content is high, eaten when the fever, easy to increase the body's basal metabolic rate, not only can not make the body temperature down, but will increase the body heat, is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.

If we eat a hard-boiled egg, weighing about 65 grams, with a protein content of 12.8% and an edible portion of 88%, an egg containing about 65 x 88% x 12.8% grams of protein = 7.3 grams, which is converted into 7.3 x 4 kcal = 29.2 kcal in the body, and an additional 29.2 x 40% kcal = 12 kcal is needed for digestion and absorption. The extra calories are required for digestion and absorption. And this extra calorie increase has a negligible effect on our body temperature as adults, and has little effect on young children.

That is to say, compared with other livestock meat, eggs are easier to be utilized by the body. If you don't cook eggs in oil, 1 to 2 eggs a day won't put much of a burden on the digestive system of a patient with a fever or cold.

In addition, eggs contain a variety of vitamins, rich in a variety of B vitamins, and vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E. Fever, the body's metabolism to speed up the body's protein decomposition accelerated, drink more water, more urination, sweating, and other measures to help the recovery, but also to make the B vitamins and vitamin C discharged greatly increased. Drug metabolism after taking various medicines also needs to consume B vitamins. It can be seen that fever supplementation of various nutrients contained in the egg is helpful to the patient.