What do you eat and drink when you’re ill?

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I’m suffering badly at the moment from a virus, I feel awful

I know it’s so important to keep eating and drinking but I can’t think of anything that is at all appetising. I’m struggling to even keep up my fluid intake as I just don’t fancy anything.

What do you opt for when you’re feeling ill? Hoping I can be tempted by one of your ideas

Cheese pizza

You should definitely avoid dairy, as it makes mucus production bigger or faster or something... anyway, I feel it helps!

Lucozade original here too. I agree it was the best thing about being ill

Tomatoe soup, jacket potato with cheese and beans.

Just remembered scrambled egg. With cheese if you can stomach it. Best served on buttery granary toast if you're not too bad.

Boiled eggs and toast soldiers.Tinned

Hotdog sandwiches.Biscuits.

Covent Garden Chicken soup with crusty white baguette followed by the strongest salt and vinegar crisps

Mashed potato with poached eggs.
Crumpets

Amazed at the number of people who can face eggs when they are ill!

Apple juice because it's the only carb heavy thing I can keep down when sick. I don't like apple juice but have diabetes and tend to get lows quickly so kind of have to.

Reading back through this made me smile as it’s so accurate Today I’ve had toast, tomato soup, salt and vinegar crisps and Mcdonald’s chips

To the PP (sorry I can’t find your post!) who said they end up having things they don’t normally like - that’s been me today as ALL I’ve wanted is a bacon sandwich when I’ve been a vegetarian for decades!

Also thanks so much for all the well wishes

Yes I’d heard about dairy making sore throats and congestion worse Sucks as I really would love some cheese right now!

Currently dying from what can only be the black plague. Feel like I've swallowed 8754 razor blades and slime, it hurts to cough, my nose is hot, my back aches etc. The only thing I'm enjoying eating is lightly salted doritos and drinking orange tango

Amazed at the number of people who can face eggs when they are ill!

Eggs are well known to settle a churning stomach! It's why they're a breakfast staple in Britain - land of the pissheads and hangovers haha

Since I was a little girl mine has always been boiled egg and toasted soldiers 😊 if a sickness bug, was always marmite on white toast

Mine is boiled sweets and coke

Mine is full fat coca cola sometimes boiled and then into the fridge so it's flat and not fizzy and mcdonalds chips. I had hyperemesis and the only thing that saved me most of the time and I could keep down most of the time was flat coca cola and the salty McDonald's chips were a general keep down as well which is completely random given that even sucking ice cubes was unsuccessful the majority of the time !
Recently had a stay in hospital was Nil by mouth for a while first thing as soon as I was allowed fluids was to demand OH to go get multiple bottles of coca cola and shake the life out of them to get them less fizzy !!

Hot toddies. Mashed swede and carrot with butter beans in tomato sauce from a jar. Ultimate comfort food (for me).

Heinz tomato soup always.
Bread and butter.
Lucozade

Lots &lots of fluid/paracetomol..Sugar free icy poles..ginger&lemon or hibiscus herbal tea..protein shakes(watered down more than normal)thinned down carrot&cumin soup..always picks me up

I always want fish and chips when ill with a cold-
Oh and lucozade original!

Knorr a chicken and noodle soup. The one you make 900ml of from a sachet. It's perfect for when you're ill.

I always have a cheese and tomato flatbread from Tesco whether Im Ill or hungover. I don't cook it, just eat it straight from the pack. It seems to be the only thing I can stomach when I'm bad. Hope you feel better soon op.

@FacebookRager Exactly the same! Love that stuff but only eat it when I'm ill.

I would say, OP, if you can't think of anything you want, maybe you're not quite ready. Get well soon x

Rice pudding

Haribo 👏🏻 Tang 👏🏻 Fastics 👏🏻

Get well soon, OP 🍇💐