do you stop drinking coffee when you've got a cold?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I do. I usuallly drink a good 12 cups a days (actually, some of them are pretty lousy, but I don’t really draw that distinction) but when I’ve got a head cold, as I’ve had for the last two weeks) I just lose all my desire for coffee, and drink clear liquids (soup, herbal tea, etc) until my cold has passed. My question is: do you do this, too, and if so, why is it so easy to go cold-turkey on a habit that at all other times is so fiercely addictive?

2

I am in the midst of a terrible cold at the moment. I have cut the amount of coffee I drink quite a bit the past few days. I think it is because my taste buds are all messed up. My wife bought me a carton of Whoppers last night and I only ate a few of them, they didn’t taste good to me.

3

I drink more.

me thought process: i feel like shit. mmm… coffee… teacher, mother, secret lover…

4

I think drinking coffee has to do more with the smell than the taste. When you have a cold, coffee just does not taste the same.

5

For me, it depends on if my throat is sore. Coffee seems to irritate a sore throat (yes, I know it’s very acidic, but so is the tea I drink when I have a sore throat, and tea doesn’t seem to bother me). With a sore throat, I dissolve 2 lemon-flavored cough-drops in a cup of strong tea, and sip it. This keeps the cough-drops from causing the blistering in the roof of my mouth that can happen when I suck on them.

6

I must drink two giant cups of coffee each and every morning no matter what. It is the first thing I think of when I open my eyes. I have very bad head aches when I don’t drink coffee. I tried to quit about a year ago. I rarely drink coffee during the day. Nothing seems to taste good when I have a cold. But I have to have coffee to function in the morning.

7

I was under the impression that caffeine is a good thing to drink for a head cold. At least, that’s what a very honest pharmacist told me when I asked him which brand of cold tablets were the best. His reply was along the lines of, “Mate, they are all pretty much the same. They’re basically mild speed, and that type of drug is good for drying you out. If you run out, drink lots of tea, coffee, or Coke, coz caffeine is the next best thing.”

8

I generally find I lose my desire to drink tea or coffee when I’m ill; I tend to switch to cup-a-soup or something (usually one of the thin chicken or vegetable ones).