No appetite: reasons. Means to increase the appetite

Not everyone can live in a healthy state constantly. Quite unexpectedly, due to some circumstances, our body can fail. During illness, we notice that we lose appetite. And what do we hear? We are told: "You need to eat, otherwise there will be no strength at all."

Why do not we listen to our body, but just blindly believe this phrase? Some food has the opposite effect. We noticed how after a hearty lunch or a festive table, the forces leave us on the contrary and we want to lie down. During the illness, we are just trying to offer precisely heavy or high-calorie food for the stomach, explaining that it will not increase the strength of the light meal. Therefore, they give us nourishing and nutritious food. Having eaten such food, we feel even more tired. And sometimes our body immediately displays it back, not having time to digest. What can it say? It's simple: the body has NO need for food at the moment, or it has no additional energy to digest food. He is busy with other processes.

If you have no appetite, then some work is being done inside the body. As soon as you (not wanting) to eat something, all the internal work of the body stops (completely or to the very minimum) and all the energy goes to the assimilation of food. And if the food is not very light, then the energy costs will be too large. It turns out that your body did some work to save and maintain life processes, and you "turned off" this function. And now the work of the body will continue only after the assimilation and removal of food. As a result, the condition of this is even worse. Because the healing process is slowed down. Our body always tells us the shortest way to recovery, but for some reason we do not listen to it. If the body does not require food, then it does not need it at the moment.

1. Listen to your body.  Throw your mind aside and listen to the desires of your body. It will tell.

2. Water.  She quickly bring all the harmful that is in the body. In addition, the lack of water affects the general condition of the body.

3. If you do not want to eat - do not eat.  Nothing bad will happen to you. If the body needs food, you will feel it.

4. If you want to eat, then eat only light food. Vegetable broth, fresh fresh, fresh (not from the package) juice, smoothies, light vegetable salad without oil. Such food requires a minimum of energy and is very quickly absorbed.

5. Fresh air, walk through the woods or the park.If the state allows, then this is the best thing you can do for your body (after giving up heavy food, of course). This will charge you with the energy of nature and will give a new charge of strength.

6. Leak energy.  Do not waste your energy on something that captures your attention aimlessly. This may be: viewing negative news; programs where something is very emotionally discussed, accompanied by shouts and accusations; useless viewing of different publics that carry no value in themselves, except for capturing attention. These and similar actions also take extra energy. Better spend time alone or read useful literature.

7. Sleep.Be sure to have a good sleep. During sleep, we rest and recharge with new energy.

Listen to your body, move away from the usual dogmas and imposed rules. Your body knows best what it needs.

I read that with flu and cold it is necessary to go hungry for a day, then you recover faster. But I think, where will the forces to fight the disease come from, if the body does not receive food? Although, to be honest, when I feel unwell, I completely lose my appetite. What should be the food for the flu to quickly deal with the disease?

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I also read it somewhere, but I know from childhood that you need to drink a lot, but you also need to eat, what would be the strength, otherwise the immune system will fight the disease, you don’t need to starve.

Limiting food to the time of illness is very important. Especially not recommended fatty meat dishes. And easy vegetable soups and cereals - please! The fact is that the body spends too much energy on the assimilation of heavy food, and they are needed to fight the disease. Still need to drink a lot. I cook compote of frozen berries - black currant, sea buckthorn, strawberries and dried apples. In fruits and berries there is vitamin C, with the flu it is especially needed.

With the flu, you don’t have to go hungry, but forcing yourself is not necessary. With flu and cold, the most important thing is abundant drinking. Drink hot tea with lemon, raspberry tea, milk with honey. The main thing is to drink, but if you do not want to eat, then you shouldn't.

And I heard the explanation of the doctor about this. The body itself refuses to eat, because it throws all its forces against microbes, not digestion. But you should drink more liquids, incl. tea with raspberries or honey and water.

The forces will come from the fact that the body will not have to spend enormous energy on the digestion and assimilation of food. No wonder that there is no desire to eat when sick. The body seems to say, depriving us of appetite: give me the opportunity, do not load, do not interfere - and I will cope with the disease. Fresh juices, fruits and vegetables in their natural form and abundant drinking of water or herbal teas with honey - this will help to rid the body of harmful viruses faster.

If the body does not want to eat, then inappropriately and rape it. better not eat a couple of days.
  If you want to eat, then better chicken broth and natural liquid yogurts, dairy products.
  And drink more.

Our body is a very complex and wisely created by the Creator (or nature - somehow). Need to learn to listen to him. And if during a cold you do not want to eat anything, it is senseless to force yourself. Thirst will make you drink a lot. And you certainly will not die of hunger - because as soon as relief comes, a brutal appetite will appear.

The body has enough nutrients and reserves for the rainy day. Especially if in the area of ​​the tummy there is a pair of folds.
  The body itself sends signals if it needs food. If you do not want something and do not need to mock yourself.
  Be sure to have plenty of drink. The food is warm and frayed, like a cream soup, rich in vitamins.

The most useful dish for ARD, ARVI and flu is chicken broth! This is due to the fact that chicken meat contains a large amount of B vitamins - they help to increase immunity and develop protective functions of the body. You also need to drink a lot of liquid - decoction of wild rose, compote of dried fruit, tea from chamomile and mint.

Immunity is already weakened during the illness, and if you also starve, what will happen then? It is necessary to eat, but in moderation, and also it is necessary to drink plenty of fluids, mainly tea with honey or lemon. The body must be replenished with vitamins.

I advise you to drink plenty of fluids during the flu or cold, you can also eat vegetable soups, salads. I would also advise lemon water to have enough vitamin C in your body. Try to drink more water, even if you have no appetite and do not want to eat anything.

In fact, everything is exactly the opposite! The more you eat and drink, the faster you will recover. Where did you read it if it's not a secret?

In the course of the disease, especially with a high body temperature, it is necessary to take a large amount of fluid in the first days. The liquid can be various: in the form of tea, juice, compote, even in the form of broth.

There are many opinions on this subject, sometimes diametrically opposed. I also consider, most importantly, drink plenty of fluids, especially tea with lemon and honey, cranberry juice. If absolutely no appetite, you should not force yourself to eat through force. Usually, when the temperature drops, appetite appears.

The most important thing for colds is a rich warm drink! Dried fruit compote, rosehip infusion. Food should be light, so that the body does not spend the strength to digest it. Boiled potatoes, chicken, bouillon.

During the illness, you can not force yourself to eat, if there is no appetite. The body itself knows when and what to ask. Just listen to him. Ah, here is an abundant warm drink shown.

During the illness, of course, you need to drink plenty of at least 3-4 liters per day. You also need to limit yourself to the consumption of very sweet, fatty and sour-dairy products. It is advisable to eat different porridges on the water is not very fatty broth, drink tea without sugar, etc. Recover!

When the flu is usually lost appetite, so the food can be replaced with chicken broth with crackers. Do not forget about the abundant drink. for example, if there is a raspberry or currant jam, make yourself compost and drink as often as possible.

In case of illness, doctors advise a sparing food to help your body - to exclude fatty, fried, smoked, and abundant drinking.

No need to invent anything. As a rule, you always want to drink with such diseases. And eat, if the body requires, with an emphasis on the usefulness of food taken for treatment.

Yes, I know that this is strange, but I am 12 years old. I have a fever, a cough, and I don’t want to eat anything. And because of this, I have a temperature of 34-35. What can I do, I can only eat mashed potatoes, but you understand that mom can not cook mashed potatoes forever. What to do???

Colds can be treated with a whole heap of drugs, and you can do without them. Our body has hidden resources that can be used in the fight against colds. How to do this - read this article.

In the article I reviewed more theoretical questions about the treatment of colds with fasting, in this I will pay more attention to practical advice, tell you about my experience and warn you against possible mistakes.

So, you felt the first symptoms of a cold - weakness, runny nose, cough, headache, and so on. It's time to start treatment. Of course, you can drink a pill, and the symptoms disappear, only nothing good will come of it. At best, the disease will continue, and stretch for two weeks, or even more. All this time, your body, with the help of the immune system, whose action is weakened by the pill, will fight the infection. Practically all this time you will have to continue to take these “miracle pills” to get rid of the symptoms that arise, but in any case, your health will not be as it was before the illness. Well, in the worst case, complications begin.

Notice, here I am not talking about all medicines at all, but only about various anti-cold drugs that just take away the symptoms. You can immediately take an antibiotic, it will kill the infection, because with a cold, we are attacked by bacteria, not viruses. Except for the harmful bacteria, he will also kill many beneficial microorganisms that we need.

How do we usually treat colds

Very often, everything happens in a slightly different scenario. After suppressing the actions of immunity with different pills, we continue to go to work, to visit crowded places. And, as a result, we pick up another infection, only now something more serious, and come down with a serious illness of the week for two, or even three. Inflammation of the lungs, this is not the worst option that is possible in this situation.

“You shouldn’t work during a famine ...”

  Hippocrates

Personally, I get sick, about once every two years, sometimes once a year. But so rarely did I start to get sick only after I started practicing regular fasting, cleaning and strengthening my body at least once a year by refusing to eat for a long period of time. Before that, I had a cold five or six times a year, and at least once a year I got sick from a viral infection. Therefore, experience in the treatment of various infections affecting the respiratory tract, I, unfortunately, have quite a lot.

My experience of treating colds with fasting

Based on this experience, I recommend treating a cold in two ways, one of which is refusal to eat for a while, and I will write about another method in one of my next articles. Once again I will say that if you do not have a medical education, then you definitely need to “have at hand” a good doctor who would monitor your condition, and if something went wrong, if there were any complications, then could provide you with traditional medical care.

With a cold lost appetite

Moreover, during the illness, the feeling of hunger is almost completely absent, the body itself asks you not to burden it for a while by digesting food, so that it can concentrate all its strength on the fight against infection. If you eat, eat chicken broth, which is so fond of giving the sick, then a large amount of blood, instead of delivering immunity cells to the inflamed mucous membranes, will flow to the digestive organs, ensuring the best process of food processing.

Start as early as possible

It is necessary to treat a cold with fasting at the earliest stages as soon as you discover the first symptoms. If your disease is already progressing, then it may no longer be effective. Therefore, as soon as you notice that the nose is flowing, you begin to cough, and so on, you can immediately begin to starve. The second, necessary condition under which the treatment of starvation will be effective is an adequate supply of both nutrients and vitamins with minerals in your body. That is, you can starve only when you have been before this, for a certain period of time, fully and balancedly fed, supplying everything you need in your body. If you, shortly before the onset of a cold, have finished, then you can not repeat it in any case, it only hurts you. But such situations are quite rare.

Bed rest

Well, the third condition for successful treatment of colds with fasting is mandatory bed rest. If you carry a cold on your feet, then there will be no benefit from fasting. In addition, so you also deliver another infection to the body, complicating the disease. Therefore, it is not necessary to treat colds, as to some trifles, set aside your business and work, because health is much more important.

When it costs to stop

Fasting for colds should be before the onset of acidosis, when you have a characteristic smell of acetone from the mouth. When this odor appears, the body produces a large number of corticosteroids that lower the inflammatory process. If at this point, your body has not begun to prevail over the infection, then inhibition of the inflammatory process may adversely affect recovery. It's time to consult a doctor. If he confirms that the disease is no longer dangerous for you, then you can continue to starve for another couple of days to stop the inflammatory process, which is no longer needed.

If you, by this time, are still very sick, then you need to start taking food in order to add the necessary forces to the body and not stop the inflammatory process. Thus, having hungry for only two or three days, during this time you can practically overcome the disease, and if you refuse to eat for another couple of days, you will feel completely healthy, and, most importantly, this feeling will fully correspond to the real state of affairs. Otherwise, after a few days of refusing to eat, your all the same, will continue to fight the infection, being in a better condition than if you had eaten.

Illness is always bad, if your body is physically unwell, your morale should be kept high. Here is a very beautiful video with pleasant music, it will help you to restore spiritual balance.

Healthy food plays an important role in the successful treatment of many diseases. Let us take a closer look at how best to adjust your diet when you get sick with the flu.

Nutrition for flu

The body of a person with the flu has a difficult task. He must find the strength to fight the virus and recover from the disease. The main source of this energy will be food.

However, all products act on the body in different ways: some maintain health and help strengthen the immune system, while others, on the contrary, reduce its antimicrobial activity. What should be the power of flu and ARVI, so that recovery will come faster?

What can you eat with the flu

Try to keep the patient's food easy for a weakened body. The most popular and effective dish is chicken soup. As a result of numerous studies, it has been proven that chicken broth soup contributes to the suppression of neutrophils (a variety of white blood cells), whose number increases dramatically with colds and flu.

It is neutrophil accumulations that lead to nasal congestion and throat. Light chicken soup can be eaten in any portions - it will only speed up your recovery.

Garlic is another popular product that can fight flu and colds. It contains allicin, which successfully copes with harmful bacteria, viruses and fungi.

Spicy Indian herbs have a good healing effect. Adding coriander, cinnamon and ginger to the dishes cause perspiration, which is so necessary at elevated temperatures. Thanks to these seasonings, blood vessels are constricted, which facilitates swallowing and breathing.

What is better to drink

First aid for a speedy recovery is to drink plenty of liquids. Thanks to fluids from the body, the microbial waste products are washed away, the balance of water that has been disturbed by excessive sweating is restored, the humidity of the mucous membranes of the respiratory organs is restored and the mucus is liquefied.

At least two liters of liquid are required per day. Drink tea with lemon, more herbal teas (with chamomile, oregano, linden), compote of dried fruit, rosehip broth. The temperature of the drinks should be 37-39 degrees - then they are absorbed faster and help the body.

What should be excluded from the diet

For the period of illness, refuse to eat meat and fish dishes, fried and smoked. You can not eat fatty soups, sausages, canned goods.

Very badly affect the process of recovery of sweetness, because the sugar contained in them reduces the activity of white blood cells, and the body loses its ability to fight the disease. Therefore, you should refrain from baking, sweets, sweet juices and sweet teas with raspberry jam and honey. In addition, sweets contain a lot of carbohydrates - they will be superfluous in our inactive state.

During the flu, it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol and coffee, which dehydrate the body and aggravate the course of the disease.

What to do if there is no appetite: forcing yourself or not

Our organism is a complex and wisely arranged mechanism, which itself knows what it needs. And we must learn to listen to him. Refusing food, the body gives all its strength to fight the virus - otherwise they will go to digest food. Therefore, when there is no appetite, do not force yourself. We will definitely not die of hunger, but as soon as relief comes, believe me, the “brutal” appetite will immediately wake up.

Light chicken soup, porridge and more drinking - more the body does not require anything until complete recovery.

Afterword

In conclusion, it is worth adding that prevention is the best cure for the flu. In order not to get sick, you need to keep your immunity in the norm: eat right, keep an active lifestyle and part with bad habits. Do not neglect vaccination. Be healthy and take care of yourself!

Svetlana Grigorieva

A good appetite has always been considered a sign of good health. The correct operation of the mechanism responsible for satisfying the need for nutrients and getting pleasure from it indicates that the organism functions without any special deviations. However, the appetite of a person is variable. It depends on the culture of nutrition instilled from childhood, taste preferences (which may change more than once during life), weather, mood, and many other factors. Therefore, periodic loss of appetite is the norm. The complete lack of interest in food, especially when it is observed for a long time, can be a sign of serious health problems.

Appetite is regulated by a special nutritional center located in the brain. When toxins enter the body, the functioning of this structure is temporarily blocked, since the main work of all systems at that moment is aimed at trying to get rid of hazardous substances. Intoxication can be caused by:

• food poisoning;
• an overdose of nicotine or alcohol;
• exposure to chemical compounds that make up household chemicals, cosmetic or perfumery products, as well as paint used in the manufacture of fabrics and other harmful components contained in objects with which a person has frequent direct contact;
• carbon monoxide poisoning;
• the use of drugs;
• acute infection (influenza, SARS, hepatitis, etc.).

As a rule, after the removal of toxic substances from the body appetite returns.

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Patients suffering from pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract, often experience unpleasant symptoms of dyspepsia: abdominal pain, belching, flatulence, nausea. In such cases, loss of appetite is associated with reflex fear of eating.

Of course, it is impossible not to eat such patients at all: this will only aggravate the painful condition. The way out is a special diet that excludes spicy, salty, sour dishes, fried and smoked products, fast food and canned food. Food should be semi-liquid and have an enveloping effect (for example, mucous porridges and mashed potatoes are useful).

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Fluctuations in hormonal levels strongly affect the appetite. This is especially noticeable during pregnancy, when serious changes in a woman's body can lead to very specific nutritional needs and a change in taste preferences.

Pathological abnormalities in the endocrine glands usually cause a loss of appetite. This process is characterized by gradualism: for example, with a decrease in thyroid function (hypothyroidism), the desire to consume food decreases or disappears completely over a long period, in parallel with the general loss of body tone, the development of fatigue, the appearance of drowsiness, tearfulness and other signs of the disease.

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Decreased appetite can be explained by psychogenic causes. So, with depression, food ceases to give a person pleasure; often even the smell of food causes nausea. At the same time, patients complain of a feeling of fullness in the stomach, too fast saturation. People who are in severe depressive state sometimes have to be forced to feed.

One of the most common psycho-emotional abnormalities, characterized by a lack of appetite, is anorexia. Young women suffering from an inferiority complex and dissatisfied with their bodies, the desire to lose weight at any cost leads first to following unreasonably strict diets, artificially freeing the stomach from absorbed food, and then to the absolute rejection of any food. This is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, the treatment of which should be handled by specialists; it often requires hospitalization.