If you cannot get homemade chicken noodle soup, Campbell's Chunky chicken noodle soup tastes pretty good. Other flavors are pretty good too.
Jello is good especially if you have a sore throat. You can get already made cups or make it from the box.
Theraflu for cold and sore throat works really well. I like the 🍋 lemon one in the packets that you pour hot water in the cup and drink it like tea.
Ahhh chew! I would make you homemade chicken noodle soup if I was there with you. 🍵
Drink lots of clear liquids. (Orange juice isn't a clear liquid.)
When you blow your nose, make sure you blow through one nostril at a time. Hold one side and blow out the other side. Then change sides. I didn't do that when I had a cold and my tubes in my ear canal became terribly infected and I was in bed for 10 days on 5 different medications.
Best wishes,
Sage 🌹
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I have a fast metabolism. Getting sick does scare me. Once I caught norovirus from my old taekwondo studio (they were horrible about cleaning- but norovirus isn’t even effected by hand sanitizer) anyway. It was bad. I lost 19 lbs in a week being so sick. I’ll normally average 2 lbs of loss a day without being able to eat.
If I’ve got a cold with a sore throat, I’ll have tomato soup. I find it eases the discomfort of the sore throat. Alternatively, I’ll have chilli con carne and rice, then go straight to bed and sweat it out of me. The only problem is, the next morning when I wake up I feel much better, but I look like something that’s been left out the fridge all night.
DayQuil, NyQuil, and soup. Feel better! Hope you are able to get that good down time. I feel like this is a whole another question.. some people like to be pampered when they are sick and some people like to be left alone. Which one do you prefer?
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Stay away from dairy. Brothy soups are good. Comfort food. Hot liquids, orange juice will help clear the sinuses a bit.
It's too late for vitamin C, and that's pretty much a myth, as is echinacea. Just sleep and rest lots.
I don't have an appetite when I'm sick, but I force myself to eat soup.
Not in any particular order, I'd eat/drink:
1. hot delicious soup
2. hot tea
3. crackers or toast
4. juice
6. fruits
7. cognac
I have a sore throat and cough rn and have zero appetite since it started.
i eat regular food and for my throat i just mix lemon and honey
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nothing… I lose my appetite when I catch a cold and all I do is, take meds, sleep, repeat.
I eat everything in the house when I have a cold and make sure that I have at least one serving of home made chicken noodle soup everyday.
chicken soup mixed with carrots and celery - its supposed to cure the cold. Peppermint tea mixed with honey also works.
I only recall getting sick once, I was 5 & had influenza. I remember eating milk duds & soup.
Soups. A ton of vegetables. And I drink plenty of water
Something light, usually chicken noodle soup.
Useally very little, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Almost nothing.
My appetite just isn't there, nor are my energy levels.
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chicken soup, toast, tuna with mayo and crackers... mashed potatoes
lots of cold water Protein bars and I dose myself with Sleeping pills until I Come out of Being dead.
When I'm sick I have home made chicken soup. I'll drink pineapple juice or ginger tea
Fruits, orange juice, and if I’m not feverish or nauseous - I’ll eat what I usually eat. 🙂👍. But yes mostly fruits
Zinc pills, Vitamin C, chicken soup, chicken broth, chicken stew, biscuits with chicken gravy, menthol cough drops.
honestly, i just eat the same stuff i eat in a regular day. maybe add a few vitamin supplements and drink a tea. but otherwise normal.
Whatever you want. Its nausea that you need lighter fair, called the Brat diet: Bananas, rice, apples, toast.
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