Why do We Lose our Appetite when we get Flu? Here's the Review

Don't you have an appetite to eat when you get flu? This is commonly happening to someone who suffers from flu. The decreased appetite of eating is indicated by your desire to eat isn't the same as before.

Various symptoms of flu from mild to severe also can affect your desire to eat, such as nasal congestion, fever, and sore throat.

Reporting from Hello Sehat, sore throat and cough make you uncomfortable to swallow food. Moreover, added by the symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, you become increasingly lazy to eat.

Nasal congestion during flu can reduce the nose's ability to smell the  food aroma. As a result, the food won't be tasty, right?

All these symptoms make your body exhausted. As a result, you choose to sleep all day and also you won't have appetite.

Eventhough flu symptom doesn't make your meal as pleasant as usual, but you still need to fill your body with food. In addition to increase the body's energy, healthy food surely will make you heal faster. (*)