What can you eat with acute bronchitis?

Written by Hu Bai Yu
Pulmonology
Updated on May 26, 2025
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Patients with acute bronchitis should eat light, warm, and easily digestible foods. Foods like porridge, noodles, or rice are recommended. Mainly focus on consuming warm, well-cooked, and easy-to-digest foods. Additionally, porridges such as vegetable porridge, yam porridge, millet porridge, and pumpkin porridge are suitable options. It is also advisable to include some greens such as lettuce, bok choy, or tofu, as well as milk. The important thing is to avoid spicy, greasy, raw, or irritating foods. It is also important to eat smaller, more frequent meals to avoid overburdening the intestines and causing indigestion. When eating, chew slowly and drink plenty of water to help boost metabolism and enhance immunity. Concurrently, engage in appropriate exercises to strengthen the body and facilitate a quicker recovery from illness.

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Can acute bronchitis drink alcohol?

For acute bronchitis, it is generally not recommended to drink alcohol. Patients with acute bronchitis are advised to consume a light diet, avoiding spicy, irritating, and greasy foods, and to refrain from drinking alcohol, coffee, and strong tea. Patients with acute bronchitis, especially those who consume large amounts of alcohol, may experience a decrease in immunity and can even develop complications like pneumonia. Sometimes, acute bronchitis can also be accompanied by bacterial infections, and patients might need to take oral antibiotics for treatment. If a patient with acute bronchitis takes cephalosporin antibiotics, it is absolutely necessary to avoid alcohol, as alcohol can interact with cephalosporins and potentially trigger a disulfiram-like reaction, which in severe cases can lead to sudden stopping of breathing and heart function, posing a life-threatening risk. (Please use medication under the guidance of a doctor.)

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Can you run with acute bronchitis?

It is not recommended to run when suffering from acute bronchitis. For this condition, it is usually necessary to rest. During the acute phase of the illness, running and similar physical exercises are not advised as they can be detrimental to the patient's condition. Patients with acute bronchitis should also pay attention to maintaining a light diet, avoiding spicy and irritating foods. Appropriate symptomatic treatment should be given, such as using cough suppressant medications. If a patient has persistent cough symptoms or develops purulent sputum, it’s crucial to check for the possible presence of pneumonia. This may require a chest CT and a complete blood count. If the patient has bacterial pneumonia, antibiotic treatment is necessary. Moreover, it is important to note that although patients with acute bronchitis should not run during the acute phase, running and exercising regularly, enhancing nutrition, and avoiding staying up late are measures that can help prevent acute bronchitis.

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Can you smoke with acute bronchitis?

It can be definitively said that smoking is prohibited for those suffering from acute bronchitis. Common symptoms of acute bronchitis include coughing and expectoration, and some patients may experience chest tightness and wheezing. Smoking can trigger or exacerbate these symptoms. Firstly, the smoke and heat from smoking can directly damage the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, triggering or worsening symptoms such as coughing and asthma. Additionally, the harmful substances in smoke can also irritate and damage the respiratory tract mucous membranes, exacerbating these symptoms. Therefore, patients with acute bronchitis should quit smoking.

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Can I eat mangoes with acute bronchitis?

Acute bronchitis is a very common inflammatory condition of the respiratory system, generally characterized by a sudden onset. Patients may experience clinical symptoms such as fever, cough, phlegm, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. For such patients, especially during the acute febrile phase, it is generally advised not to eat mangoes. Mangoes contain a high amount of sugar and are a tropical fruit. Eating mangoes during an acute bronchitis infection may exacerbate the patient's phlegm and even increase cough severity to varying degrees. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with acute bronchitis avoid eating mangoes as much as possible.

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What medicine is good for acute bronchitis?

Acute bronchitis is an acute inflammation of the bronchial mucosa, often caused by pathogenic microbial infections, as well as physical and chemical factors and allergic factors. Patients experience symptoms such as coughing, expectoration, fever, and wheezing. Generally, acute bronchitis does not require intravenous fluid treatment. It can be cured within two to three weeks through oral medication, such as oral anti-inflammatory drugs and oral cough suppressants and asthma relievers. However, in some cases, such as when symptoms are relatively severe, there is a bacterial infection, and oral medication is difficult, intravenous antibiotics can be considered for treatment.