When you have a cold, you are dizzy and depressed, it is difficult to concentrate on work and study, many people choose to drink coffee in order to refresh, although it is true that coffee has a good refreshing effect, but can you drink coffee when you have a cold?
Can you drink coffee with a cold?
Coffee contains a lot of caffeine, which can easily stimulate people's nerves, but it is easy to make people's mental state become worse, and sometimes also lead to aggravation of the disease, and people should eat more low-calorie food when they have a cold and fever, coffee is relatively high in calories, so drinking coffee when you have a cold and fever will feel more uncomfortable.
Bad effects of drinking coffee when you have a cold
Although it is said that people with cold and wind can drink coffee, but drinking too much of it can easily affect the rest. Caffeine in coffee has a significant excitatory effect on the central nervous system, and can promote blood circulation and dilate blood vessels.
Cold medicine and coffee should not be taken together
Most cold medicines contain anti-allergic ingredients, and when taken together with coffee, they tend to stimulate the nerve center and also cause irritation to the gastric mucosa, causing other discomfort such as stomach pain, and have an effect on the efficacy of the medicine. In addition, many drugs metabolism and caffeine metabolism will affect each other, some will increase the effect of caffeine, some will cause the drug effect to increase or decrease, thus delaying the recovery time of the cold.
Drinking a lot of coffee is harmful
Drinking coffee in moderation has a certain effect on refreshment, but caffeine has a certain degree of toxicity, and excessive intake will cause impairment to human physiological functions, if you drink more than three cups of coffee in a row, you will be prone to emotional tension and anxiety, shortness of breath; if you drink more than ten cups, you will be prone to dizziness and tinnitus, increased blood pressure, blurred vision, heart rate disorders, and coffee will also affect people's Heart rate, pulse and blood pressure, play the role of stimulants, easy to aggravate the frequency of myocardial infarction in heart patients, and coffee is also easy to stimulate the gastric mucosa and stomach lining, leading to the risk of gastric ulcer perforation.
What to drink when you have a cold
Hot lemon water
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which has the effect of anti-viral and boosting human immunity. Drinking hot lemon water at the early stage of cold is especially effective against cold virus, and it can also appease the appetite and cough, which is suitable for people with wind-heat cold.
Hot fruit tea
Diced fruits such as poppy seeds, oranges, apples, etc., boiled with water and then turned to low heat for 15 to 30 minutes, and then drink it while it is hot, can effectively relieve cold and flu. This is because poppy peach can clear heat and produce body fluid, which can cure wind-heat cough, mouth and tongue sores, gum swelling and pain; apple can produce body fluid to stop cough and moisten the lung; orange pulp can strengthen the stomach, and the fruit peel can reduce phlegm and cough.
