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allergic reaction to nicotine
by Mjrichardson, Jun 22, 2006 12:00AM
I am a male and am 23 years old. For about 6 months, I have had a problem with unconrollable gagging. When this began It seemed to me that this problem occurred after eating. After a while I experimented with eating at certain times of day and came to find out that the gagging occurred not after eating but after smoking, and then during smoking. As a result I have discontinued smoking and began chewing tobacco (although I know this is not a cure). For the last six weeks my breathing has gotten better but my gagging has gotten worse. I have attempted to find the physical symptoms of nicotine allergies, but have failed to find any lists of symptoms to compare mine to. The symptoms arrive the worse at the ingestion of alcohol (2-3 beers) and cause me to vomit. Normally when I smoked I felt no problems after 2-3 beers. I know that all of these are bad habits but is there anything that can be done to control the gagging? I have stopped chewing tobacco for several days at a time to see if the symptoms recess but they do not. This seems like an allergy to me, but I have smoked at least a pack a day since I was 16 and have never had this problem before. Since I have recently aquired some allergies I have never had before (pet dander, random dust) I was wondering if I could have aquired a nicotine allergy as well. any help would be appreciated.
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You could have a problem related to alcohol, alcohol abuse can cause problems with your esophagus so you should see the doctor and have a thorough exam of your throat.
If you vomit when you drink you need to seriously consider quitting it. If I was you, I'd have a full liver panel done to make sure you haven't damaged your liver and have them check your throat.
Chewing tobacco raises your risk for smoking related cancers by a huge amount.
Your habits are making you sick, address the habits and the other problems will probably go away.
You could be allergic to the cigarettes and tobacco.
Avoid smoking, join a smoking cessation clinic to help you quit. Talk to your doctor about it.
Your symptoms aggravate on drinking alcohol so you need to stop both smoking and alcohol.
Apart from the symptoms you describe other health issues should prompt you to quit at the earliest.
The symptoms should resolve in some time once you have quit.
Do keep us posted and let us know how you are doing.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.