I was told today to leave meat and dairy alone and increase my garlic intake to kick this sinus infection I have. Is there truth to this? I've never heard of this before so of course I wanted to do some research. I found plenty of good things about garlic, like this paragraph from mysinustory.com
Garlic can destroy known viruses and bacterial infection with its astringent and disinfectant power. And it also builds defenses so one develops immunity to harmful airborne germs that could give the flu. Garlic neutralizes harmful bacteria and microbes that cause colds. Thus garlic can be very beneficial in preventing colds and the flu, by killing the root cause of them. Considering also that viruses and the flu can irritate the sinus and nasal cavity membranes, and this in turn cause sinus issues, then garlic can be beneficial to help prevent sinus. Antibiotics do not kill viruses while garlic is known to have this medicinal property. Again, allicin, the active medicinal ingredient in garlic is what I take whenever a virus or cold threatens me. If I don't have allicin I just eat a fresh garlic sandwich, using two large cloves of the garlic bulb.
Mysisustory.com also had this to say about dairy products :
We can affirm that some foods can impact the production of mucus to a degree most people do not realize, e.g., cheese can cause sinus pressure to some and excess mucus to others. The sinus and food relationship can be so real that one way to handle sinus issues such as: pressure is to, initially, test for a food or foods suspected as culprits--for example dairy foods. Eggnog, milkshakes, ice cream and cows milk are among the worst foods for sinuses.
In all of my research however, I didn't find anything linking eating meats to sinus issues.
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