| The efficiency of some medicine really depends | | | | histamine. Instead, eat cereal, grapes, figs and |
| on what you eat and drink. Some foods can | | | | dried apricots because these foods will make it |
| counteract medicine. Of course, you should always | | | | easier to cough up phlegm. Carrots, beets, Brussel |
| consult your doctor. I just suggest a few | | | | sprouts, cauliflower, beans, squash, apples, pears, |
| common sense guidelines. | | | | peaches and plums will protect your stomach |
| If you take cardio-vascular medicine, avoid high | | | | mucous. |
| calorie foods. Substitute fatty meat or mushroom | | | | If you take diuretics, avoid coffee, black tea, |
| soups for vegetable soup. You should exclude | | | | cacao, chocolate, salty and spicy foods, salty and |
| coffee, cacao, chocolate and spicy or salty foods. | | | | smoked products and alcohol (especially beer) |
| Fish, sea food, vegetable oil, vegetables, fruits, | | | | because these foods retain fluids in your body. |
| yogurts and diary will be great for your diet. | | | | You should drink the juice of grapes, carrots and |
| If you have to take pain-killers, avoid spicy foods, | | | | cucumbers. Eat turnip, parsley and radish. |
| alcohol and fish. Include oatmeal, rice, soup-purees | | | | Do not take diarrheic medicine with any other |
| and desserts made of fruit, berries and potato (or | | | | medicine. Also, avoid strong black tea, chocolate, |
| corn) starch in your diet. | | | | pears and cheese because these will counteract |
| Antibiotics do not go well with milk, cheese, sour | | | | the medicine. You should eat spinach (it will help |
| cream and yogurts. Eat less meaty foods. | | | | digestion) and beets, squash, sweet plums, dried |
| Instead, you should include juices, fruits, | | | | plums, cucumbers and whole grain bread. |
| vegetables and nuts in your diet. These foods will | | | | If you were prescribed sleeping pills, avoid coffee, |
| help you fight infections. But after you are done | | | | strong black tea, chocolate and alcohol. Eat dried |
| with the course of antibiotics, do not forget to | | | | grapes, melon, or 1 table spoon of honey before |
| restore your stomach's micro flora. Drink yogurts | | | | you go to bed or 1 glass of warm milk with a |
| with live bacteria daily for at least a couple of | | | | few walnuts. |
| weeks. | | | | If you are getting a treatment that affects the |
| If you were prescribed an anti-inflammatory | | | | formation of your blood, you should exclude |
| medicine or bronchial medicine, avoid wines, | | | | strong black tea, coffee, chocolate and cacao. Eat |
| smoked meat, spinach, bullion, radish, eggs, | | | | beef liver, beets, squash, apricots, apples, |
| bananas, strawberries, canned foods and sorrel | | | | buckwheat cereal and quinces. Drink carrot juice |
| because these foods promote the formation of | | | | and spinach juice. |