What porridge should F0 eat when having a fever and cough?

The change in weather temperature combined with Covid-19 infection makes many people cough, have fever, bronchitis, pneumonia, and get a cold worse, especially the elderly, children, and people with low resistance. Traditional medicine practitioner Bui Dac Sang (Academy of Science and Technology) guides some dishes from porridge to increase resistance and effectively relieve colds.

Porridge with onions, perilla, eggs

Perilla porridge combined with chicken eggs and green onions is a popular dish. Perilla leaves are warm and spicy and can cure coughs, colds, fevers, and increase resistance.

Prepare 100g of rice; one chicken egg; one fresh ginger root; 5-10g of dried onion; a handful of fresh perilla leaves; 3-5 spring onions; pepper, spices... to taste.

Wash and chop perilla leaves and spring onions, slice ginger into thin strips, crush and chop shallots. Put rice in a pot and cook until porridge is well done. Next, take the egg yolk and add it to the hot porridge and beat it. Finally, add perilla leaves, ginger, and spring onions and cook together, season to taste.

You should eat the porridge while it is still hot to make your body sweat. Then use a soft towel to wipe the sweat to avoid letting the cold wind get into your body.

Chicken porridge

Chicken meat contains a lot of protein and amino acids to increase the body's resistance and help fight infection. When you have a cold, cooking chicken porridge will help the patient avoid a sore throat and feel more comfortable.

Prepare 100g lean chicken; a handful of rice; onion, coriander, and enough spices. Wash the rice and cook it into porridge until it is well done. Then wash the chicken, chop it finely, and stir-fry it with the spices. Finally, add the chicken to the porridge, chop a little onion, coriander, and pepper into the porridge bowl to help relieve colds better. Chicken porridge should be eaten while it is still hot.

Pumpkin porridge

Pumpkin contains many vitamins and minerals necessary for the body, helps increase resistance, treat coughs, reduce phlegm, and is a food you should eat every time you have a cold.

Prepare 100g pumpkin; a handful of rice. Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, wash and cut into thin slices and put in the pot to cook. Then wash the rice and put it in the pot of pumpkin. Boil and add water until both the rice and pumpkin are cooked. The porridge should be consumed while still hot to increase the effect of relieving colds for the sick person.

Green bean porridge

Green beans contain a lot of protein and amino acids that are good for the stomach. Eating green bean porridge helps activate lymphocytes to produce antibodies that are harmful to the body, helping to fight inflammation, reduce fever, and detoxify.

Prepare 1/3 can of mung beans; a handful of rice. You should soak the mung beans in water for about an hour before cooking, then put them in the pot with the washed rice and cook until both the mung beans and rice are well-cooked. Add enough spices and you can use it. You should eat the porridge while it is still hot. Actively eating mung bean porridge within 2-3 days will reduce flu symptoms and lower fever.

Casepoor appetite, fatigue and feeling full quickly,Patients should divide their meals into smaller meals throughout the day. For example, adults who usually eat 3 meals a day should divide them into 4-6 meals a day after recovering from Covid. When eating better, reduce the number of meals and increase the amount of food in each meal, with an additional energy level of about 400-500 kcal a day compared to before. The amount of protein provided to the body also needs to increase by about 75-100 g a day.

Enhance the combination of nutritional recovery with exercise and rehabilitation according to the instructions of the specialist. Patients also need to get enough sleep, sleep more than usual and try to go to bed on time. If you have an underlying medical condition, you should consult your doctor to combine the nutritional instructions of the underlying medical condition with the current condition in the most appropriate way.