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What Causes Difficulty Swallowing When I Eat Food Too Fast?
Question: Minor difficulty swallowing which may occur when I eat too fast. Seems to occur after I eat a bunch of nuts before dinner. Is there some connection. It is not a sever problem but it can be irritating. I'm a 75 year old male
Brief Answer:
Pls take some time out to answer a few clarifications sir, thx
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome.
Thank you for writing to us.
I have gone through your query with diligence and would like you to know that I am here to help. If you relate the difficulty in swallowing to nuts, have you considered the fact that this could be an allergic reaction?
If you do not mind, please write to me with more information on the nuts.
+Are you eating a particular brand of nuts or the wholesale ones?
+If this is a particular brand of nuts, are they a new brand you are trying out?
+Since when have you been eating this particular brand of nuts? If not a particular brand, since when have you been eating these nuts?
+Is your difficulty in swallowing a reflex or due to hypersalivation, or more of a muscular difficulty?
And any extra information you have to offer that would be relevant in helping you further sir.
I look forward to hearing from you in order to help you further.
Best wishes.
Pls take some time out to answer a few clarifications sir, thx
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome.
Thank you for writing to us.
I have gone through your query with diligence and would like you to know that I am here to help. If you relate the difficulty in swallowing to nuts, have you considered the fact that this could be an allergic reaction?
If you do not mind, please write to me with more information on the nuts.
+Are you eating a particular brand of nuts or the wholesale ones?
+If this is a particular brand of nuts, are they a new brand you are trying out?
+Since when have you been eating this particular brand of nuts? If not a particular brand, since when have you been eating these nuts?
+Is your difficulty in swallowing a reflex or due to hypersalivation, or more of a muscular difficulty?
And any extra information you have to offer that would be relevant in helping you further sir.
I look forward to hearing from you in order to help you further.
Best wishes.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
The nuts I've been eating which seem most related are unsalted mixed nuts I buy at Costco. Since you raise the issue , I don't recall an issue before I started getting them the last year or so. Don't seem to have same problem when I eat almonds but who knows. I would say the difficulty is a reflex . It occurs just below the XXXXXXX Apple.
Brief Answer:
I think we can rule out a medical issue (other than an allergy)
Detailed Answer:
Hello once again sir.
Thank you for your kind response.
If you do not have a difficulty in swallowing with any other food item or drink, then there is most certainly some issue with the nuts you have been consuming. Just for experimentation purposes, why don't you purchase the same kind of nuts from a totally different seller and just to make sure the supplier is not the same try to get may be a packaged one, I hope you understand what I mean.
I do not see an issue (whether muscular, vascular, neurological, etc.) as you seem to have the symptom with only one food item and not anything else, raising a quite obvious suspicion on the item being consumed itself sir.
Best wishes.
I think we can rule out a medical issue (other than an allergy)
Detailed Answer:
Hello once again sir.
Thank you for your kind response.
If you do not have a difficulty in swallowing with any other food item or drink, then there is most certainly some issue with the nuts you have been consuming. Just for experimentation purposes, why don't you purchase the same kind of nuts from a totally different seller and just to make sure the supplier is not the same try to get may be a packaged one, I hope you understand what I mean.
I do not see an issue (whether muscular, vascular, neurological, etc.) as you seem to have the symptom with only one food item and not anything else, raising a quite obvious suspicion on the item being consumed itself sir.
Best wishes.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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