thick stringly/ropey clear mucous coated on back of throat and vomitted daily esp. after eating + endless cough!

[lil g]

It has gotten to the point where I can barely eat anything without starting to cough, and I cough until I expel anywhere from spit sized to a whole mouthful of white, frothy, stringy/ropey clear mucous or phlegm or sputum or Post Nasal Drip or whatever this is! It has progressed in the past 10 years into something that's making me afraid to eat.

With it I get hives on my feet and/or my hands. Common sense tells me it's food allergies, but the amount of clear mucous that comes out in a huge clump is scary. When I'd drink a coke, it would totally foam up in my stomach and mix with the slime and I'd cough a couple of times then it would come flying out of my mouth in a huge slimy, foamy vomit cluster (try dealing with this in the car!! I always keep a box of Kleenex around!!)

I do feel 100% better immediately when it comes out though. Like the world has been lifted off my shoulders. My nose feels open, my throat feels open, my stomach stops feeling nauseated, my muscles stop feeling tight and achy, and I stop feeling that CONSTANT string/ball in the back of my throat.

Does anybody else here vomit this slimy, clear, ropey garbage?? I take Allegra, I do nasal washes, I used Nasarel steroid spray. I'm 2 weeks now on a whole foods diet along the lines of salicylate intolerance because the symptoms fit me almost perfectly, along with my results of the ALCAT food intolerance test I took, and lost 6 lbs in 1 week but if I dare to try any foods beyond a chosen few I get immediately sick again... I don't know what else to do. I'm getting really scared.

[JCaliber]

I take no Antibiotics, I take Probiotics and Digestive enzymes instead.  Antibiotics will only make healing your body more difficult.  Try this, it's truly worth it, you'll see.

I agree with the post I quoted above..

I am a person that never hardly gets sick and when i do I hardly take medication as it will result in hurting your immune system from my believe and you can kill good bacteria,  I just thought threw it and take vitamins to boots my immune system.    

ALLERGY MEDICATION WILL NOT WORK PLEASE READ
reason for this is because this is for more of a head allergy and allergys that cause sinus issues, this is a throat allergy,  with changing of seasons or warm to hot to cold weather this will effect our bodys.   I live in missouri with 2nd in state of allergys of how bad it is..    

NOTE: I do not have any answer to what you can take or wash in the throat to clean these allergys.   My guess would be a salt water solution for now.. i will post an update to this, if I have any further information from this point forward.

[DCinBC]

I think Deenzie is right about the chewing gum.  Mint (or possible Salycilate) may be the culprid.  Since I stoped chewing Mint gum, the amount of Mucus in my thorat has decreased to a tolerable level.  I must mention that at the same time I stopped chewing Mint gum I started taking Zyrtek and Advair.

DCinBC

[Deenzie]

I too get a  thick foamy mucus when I eat.  I start getting hick ups that hurt like hell, then the foam starts.  I had blood tests and found I had bacteria, took medications as prescribed.  Everything was great for a while then it started again, I kept a list of what  I was doing diffrent ... Had icecream... and started chewing gum again... I think its the CHEWING Gum thats doing it.  Think about it,  chewing gum causes you to swallow excess air which can make you bloated it also causes gastric juice to forrm. I stopped with the gum and am feeling better agian.

[j4105]

My mother had this problem for quite some time. She was found to have a gallbladder that was packed with stones and a tumor. She has only ever had one gallbladder attack- the one that lead to the removal of the bladder. She has not had the choking/mucus issue since.

[char72]

my husband has esophageal cancer for 2 yrs the last 6 months as not been able to eat only through his peg tube ,and itis always gevitythe problem is  as soon as he eats food , he starts vomiting this thick stringy sticky mucus and it will go on for hours  the doctors are aware of this the say to ty and drink water more than anything else right now because that would thin the mucus  the only thing he will drink is chicken broth gingerale coffee& gatorade, so i give him asmuch water through his peg tube, and that is not helping  i'm so desperate to find something for him so he can eat again  


it is so heartbreaking to know all he wishes right now is to be able to eat. if  any doctor happens to read this and know  of something please email me at ***@**** i also.would like to hear from the forum. please help,thank you CB

[michellecostigan09]

my brother is 21 suffers from down syndrome and lately he is getting more and more of this very ery thick clear stringy mucus up after eating......has anyone found a reason for what causes this as the doctors with all theie knowledge dont seem to know, could it be a nasal drip as he suffers with ear problems i am going down ever route to try find a reason