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RandySF

(58,800 posts) Wed Jan 29, 2014, 05:55 PM Jan 2014

Feed a cold or starve a cold?

We have sick people in this household and it brings me back to this argument I hear every cold/flu season. Some say it's best to eat while sick, or does digestion simply divert energy from fighting of illness?

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Feed a cold or starve a cold? (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2014 OP

Here's the 'story:' elleng Jan 2014 #1

We eat. Soups, toast, oatmeal. Drink 840high Jan 2014 #2

I thought that the phrase was more about medication than food MissMillie Jan 2014 #3

elleng

(130,895 posts)

1. Here's the 'story:'

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 06:00 PM

Jan 2014

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/starve-cold-feed-fever

840high

(17,196 posts)

2. We eat. Soups, toast, oatmeal. Drink

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 07:40 PM

Jan 2014

lots of fluids.

MissMillie

(38,556 posts)

3. I thought that the phrase was more about medication than food

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 12:44 PM

Jan 2014

A cold is a virus and therefore not much in the way of meds is going to help (at least not when the phrase first originated anyway) and a fever indicated some type of infection so take some meds.

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