In being ravenously hungry when ill?!

[shesalady]

Just that.

Whenever I have a cold/flu or similar I can't stop eating! And mostly I'm craving junk food. I'm like a human dustbin.

Is this a thing? Dh thinks it's really peculiar, I'm sure it's rooted in some science.

YANBU. I’m exactly the same. Stodgier the better too!

It's a thing. Junky carbs are all I want when I'm sick. Your dh is the peculiar one

Same.

When I had 'flu a few months and could eat again it was 3minute super noodles for days. 😋

Me too. Usually people who are very ill lose weight. I gain it. Especially after a good migraine, I eat us out of house and home. Himself already knows, as soon as I hit the deck, he goes out and gets a boatload of food in.

I’m the same - funnily enough particularly after a migraine! Salty, sugary, really bad for you stuff. The only time I’ve ever lost weight when ill was when I had quinsy and was delirious.

Today I've eaten a packet of super noodle type things, two large chicken and salad fajitas, two small reeses eggs, a Cadbury's cream egg, a quorn burger in a bun with mushrooms, a large plate of chips and am begging dh to make me fried chicken. And it's not even 4pm here yet.