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What Causes Blocked Feeling In Throat After Eating Certain Foods And Cough?
Hello doctor, I have trouble with my throat now and again when eating certain foods like crisps, peanuts and various other trigger of an uncomfortable feeling like my throat is blocked and food feels stuck. I have had chest infection twice in one year and I get a whooping cough once or twice a year which lasts more than a month and it causes a little blood in my saliva. My throat feels tight with certain foods like food is stuck in my chest and neck. Please advice what this can be. Kind Regards Shabana.
Mon, 13 Apr 2020
Hi,
Noted your history of feeling blocked throat on eating certain things like peanuts, food gets stuck, chest infection, whooping cough, blood in saliva and so on.
To discuss your symptoms one by one:
Certain foods have chemicals in them that on chewing react on the mucosa of mouth, pharynx, esophagus and so on to cause the symptoms you have.
The only solution is to identify all such foods, beverages and stop these altogether.
Recurrent chest infections can be due to lowered immunity as suggested by the food problems and thus you need to do the following:
Identify the factors that cause chest infection and avoid these.
Avoid crowded places.
Get blood levels of Vitamin A and D so that correction of deficiency can help you to get proper immunity.
Whooping cough is forceful rupturing the small blood vessels and thus blood in saliva. Take anti-tussive that is cough suppressants during such attacks.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. T. Chandrakant, ENT and General Surgeon
Noted your history of feeling blocked throat on eating certain things like peanuts, food gets stuck, chest infection, whooping cough, blood in saliva and so on.
To discuss your symptoms one by one:
Certain foods have chemicals in them that on chewing react on the mucosa of mouth, pharynx, esophagus and so on to cause the symptoms you have.
The only solution is to identify all such foods, beverages and stop these altogether.
Recurrent chest infections can be due to lowered immunity as suggested by the food problems and thus you need to do the following:
Identify the factors that cause chest infection and avoid these.
Avoid crowded places.
Get blood levels of Vitamin A and D so that correction of deficiency can help you to get proper immunity.
Whooping cough is forceful rupturing the small blood vessels and thus blood in saliva. Take anti-tussive that is cough suppressants during such attacks.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. T. Chandrakant, ENT and General Surgeon
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