What do these symptoms have to do with my diet?
- What you eat can influence a condition that you may already have.
- You may need to follow a particular dietary pattern to manage an existing condition.
- It is important to consider these existing conditions when making changes to your diet to help manage the symptoms of COVID-19.
Resources
The British Dietetic Association Critical Care Specialist group provides eating recommendations after critical illness – Nutrition at Home after Critical Illness [PDF], which may include similar symptoms.
This includes:
- tips to lose weight
- ideas for recipes for heart problems, diabetes or healthy diets.
The Malnutrition Pathway's Managing Adult Malnutrition online resource offers tips for people with:
- Diabetes
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Lung cancer
- COVID-19.
Other tips may be applicable if you scored yourself in the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) tool:
Histamine intolerance
- A freelance dietitian provides an article on
histamine intolerance and post COVID [PDF]
The Swansea Bay University Health Board has a Covid and Long Covid recovery – therapy information pack which provides ideas for:
- weight loss
- moving and exercise.
Heart Matters provides a 5 steps to sustainable weight loss online resource.
The British Heart Foundation provides advice on weight management and other useful healthy eating information.