Always Cough After Eating A Meal, Intensity Has Increased. What Should I Do?

Posted on Fri, 10 May 2013

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Question : I always cough after eating a meal. Recently the intensity has increased. What should I do?

Answered by Dr. Muhammad Ishfaq Habib (32 minutes later)

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The cough after eating food is mostly due to esophageal irritation or GERD. It happens as reflux mechanism. It can be controlled by gastric prokinetic drugs like domeperidone or metachlopromide along with antacids like femotidine.

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