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Not eating, or fasting, when you want to recover actually makes a lot of sense. It lets your body focus on the recovery autophagy. Not spending energy digesting food, which can be very complicated, especially when you're sick.
Keep your electrolytes up, but if you're not hungry don't eat.
You do need the calories and resources, but that’s why you should eat easy to digest things like soup.
I'm referring to my state's recommendations:
It is not recommended that you stop eating. It will not reduce the symptoms of gastroenteritis, does not provide enough calories and can delay healing.
You got sick by eating, clearly eating isn't going to help matters.
Your body's autonomous functions are run by a meat computer that developed a few hundred million years ago and has only added functions on top of the existing architecture in a bubblegum and string affair.
digestion is hard. have you tried drinking calories? veggie broth, protein shakes, and fruit juice are my go-to
Thanks for the suggestions. I managed to eat and keep down bananas, bread, pasta, and rice with vegetables. Now thinking about the 3 last items makes me nauseous though. It seems like I always have to eat something else.
To others suffering from the same disease and finding this: it's recommended to avoid fruit juices high in sugar.
Because your appetite is largely controlled by your gut microbes, not your own body.
And those microbes are now dead.
Not dead but fighting their own battle.
I'm not the first to say this, but essentially your body (specifically your immune system) doesn't know the difference (as far as how dangerous a sickness is) between a cold and ebola. So it always reacts very strongly to any "invader" that isn't part of your body normally. This is super simplified and I'm not an expert by any means, but here is a playlist of videos by a channel called Kurzgesagt with much more information: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFs4vir_WsTyS2cy4vj4obl5igqCOV749
Or if you don't want to click on the link (or want to use a different device) you can search for Kurzgesagt and then look at their playlists; there is one with immune-related videos.
Yea, Kurzgesagt is excellent.