Does anyone else eat MORE when they're sick?

I vary, often no appetite at all. Although sometimes I do crave comfort/carby foods, which I don't usually care for much at all. It depends on what I'm afflicted with.

I have to be truly sick to lose my appetite. Under the weather and kinda sick means I eat just as much or more. Yesterday I ate my weight in potatoes, bananas, popcorn, and fruit.

I do have a bigger appetite, but I'm not sure if it's because I'm sick or just because I'm not active, because I also tend to get hungry on my rest days. When I'm sick I do just want comfort food though.

I just had a cold recently & seemed to eat way more.

From "www.dukehealth.org":

"Although a few small-scale studies have suggested that “feed a cold, starve a fever” loosely represents sound medical advice, Duke medical experts caution against putting too much faith in the adage.

“I think it was always pretty much dismissed as folklore,” says Denise Snyder, a nutrition scientist and clinical trials manager at the Duke University School of Nursing. “If you break it out and really think about it, there is some immune response if you eat less during a fever. But as a nutritionist, I certainly wouldn’t tell people to starve themselves.”

Snyder points out that you probably won’t feel like eating anyway -- loss of appetite is your body’s natural defense mechanism for fevers, as it helps the immune system focus its energy on fighting pathogens.

“You shouldn’t overconsume, but if you’re hungry you should eat,” she says, adding that fluids can only help fight the fever.

As for “feed a cold,” it’s simply a matter of keeping your nutrient levels up while the virus runs its course.

“Colds usually last longer than fevers,” Snyder says. “You need to be consuming food so you can fight it off -- especially fruit and vegetable juices and warm broths.”

Joy doesn’t want patients to get hung up on unproven treatments. “It’s important to stress what we know makes a difference, which is getting plenty of rest,” he says.

“Drinking plenty of fluids also makes a difference because it helps keep the secretions thinner and allows patients to get them out of their system lot quicker, alleviating symptoms such as a cough or nasal drainage.”"

I'm rarely sick now but if I have a cold (not a flu), I crave carbs carbs carbs!

Not sure if I eat more, but I will typically only eat Honey Nut Cheerios and Cheez Its... and drink Apple Juice.

I usually eat more when I have a cold. I think cold meds stimulate hunger. I usually try to make a big pot of homemade chicken noodle soup (lots of veggies) and eat that. It's relatively low calorie and has health benefits for colds.