What to eat when you have a stomach cold?

Gastrointestinal cold is a viral cold, usually accompanied by obvious gastrointestinal symptoms: nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. People with gastrointestinal cold should pay more attention to a reasonable diet. How to treat gastrointestinal cold through food?

Gastrointestinal cold symptoms

Gastrointestinal cold is a type of cold that causes gastrointestinal discomfort, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The most common causes of "stomach cold" are viral infection and dietary allergies. After bacteria and viruses implant in the throat and cause inflammation, they are swallowed into the stomach and intestines through saliva, causing gastrointestinal discomfort. The symptoms are as follows:

1. Vomiting: Pathogens or other toxic substances enter the stomach, causing the stomach muscles to contract and expel the stomach contents.

2. Diarrhea: It is mainly caused by the irritation of the intestines, which leads to a large increase in secretions, affecting the absorption function, causing excessive water in the intestinal cavity, and increased intestinal motility, so the stools discharged are all loose stools.

3. Abdominal pain: The pain is felt because the intestinal motility is twice as fast as normal, or the mucosa on the intestinal wall becomes red and swollen due to inflammation. Although the redness and swelling cannot be seen, the pain can be felt.

Dietary Recipes

Ginger Juice

For those with severe vomiting, you can take an appropriate amount of ginger juice, add a small amount of warm water and drink it, which has a good anti-vomiting effect.

Barley and orange peel porridge: Take 30 grams of fresh orange peel and 100 grams of barley. First wash the orange peel and cut it into thin strips. Then add water and boil it, then filter out the orange peel strips. Add it to rice and cook it into porridge. It can help stop vomiting and help digestion.

Three Juice Drink

Take appropriate amounts of water chestnuts, white radish, and fresh lotus root, wash them, squeeze them into juice and drink it at any time. It can clear away heat and remove heart fire, and the effect is better.

Three Ginger Candy Drink

10 grams of coriander root, 10 grams of scallion root, 50 grams of fresh radish root, 2 slices of ginger, 100 grams of brown sugar, add 200 ml of water and boil for 10 minutes. Take it in small amounts frequently to relieve vomiting symptoms.