What Foods to Avoid When Sick?
Here's the Most Comprehensive List of Dietary Restrictions During Illness
This chart is incredibly useful!
1. Common Cold: Bananas, oranges, asparagus juice, ice, lamb, ginger duck soup, tobacco, alcohol.
2. Cough: Ice cream, oranges, fried foods, roasted foods, spicy foods, peanuts, alcohol, sweets.
4. Chronic Gastritis: Raw/cold foods, fermented foods, sweets.
5. Enteritis: Bananas, pomegranates.
6. Acute/Chronic Hepatitis: Goose (chicken, duck) skin, fatty pork, tobacco/alcohol, avoid staying up late.
7. Heart disease: Overeating, high-cholesterol foods, excessively salty foods.
8. Kidney disease: Beer, soda, salted fish, dried bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables.
9. Diabetes: Sweet foods, alcohol, greasy foods, fried/grilled foods, high-calorie foods.
10. Low blood pressure: Celery; recommended: early bedtime and regular exercise.
11. Hypertension: Excessively salty foods, egg yolks, animal offal.
12. Peptic Ulcers: Legumes, bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables, glutinous rice products, alcohol, pineapple, chili peppers, guava.
13. Traumatic Periosteitis: Bananas, bamboo shoots, alcohol, pickled cabbage, chili peppers.
14. Traumatic injuries: Pork head meat, vinegar, peanuts, sweets, bananas, beer.
15. Hemorrhoids with bleeding: Tobacco, alcohol, chili peppers, fried foods.
16. Rheumatoid arthritis: Beer, bananas, meat, exposure to cold dew.
17. Allergic Constitution (urticaria, eczema, asthma, allergic rhinitis): Seafood, taro, mango, ice, longan, lychee.
18. Neurasthenia (insomnia): Chili peppers, alcohol, coffee, scallions, garlic.
19. Cholecystitis, Gallstones: Eggs, fatty meats, spicy foods.
20. Chronic Colitis: Seafood, fruits, fresh milk (yogurt is acceptable).
21. Headaches: Tobacco, alcohol, tea, rooster meat, crab, shrimp, goose meat, lamb, dog meat.
22. Chest pain: Fatty meat, seafood, etc.
23. Abdominal distension: Salted fish, fermented bean curd, salted pork, fatty pork, mutton, dog meat, etc.; sea fish, crab, shrimp, rooster, pineapple, vinegar, etc.
24. Abdominal pain: Dog meat, fatty pork, mutton, sea fish, shrimp, crab, etc.; ice products, pickled vegetables, nuts, glutinous rice products.
25. Stomach pain: Rich meat juices, meat broths, chili peppers, strong tea, alcohol, MSG, coarse grains, celery, leeks, lotus root, bean sprouts, garlic, pickled vegetables, etc.