is it true that its a bad idea to eat dairy food when you have a cold?!
Question: Is it true that its a bad idea to eat dairy food when you have a cold?
Answers:
No that is not what happens. Milk does not have any bacteria that makes your cold worse. In SOME people, not all, drinking milk increases the amount of mucus produced on a temporary basis. Milk doesn't increase my mucus for example, so I often drink milk when I am sick instead of eating meals because I get nauseated easily when I have a fever. However my wife gets a lot of extra mucus from milk, so she can't drink it when she is sick.
Dairy tends to make your mucus thicker and harder to cough up, thats all I have ever heard about it never heard anything about bacteria.
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