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What Causes Chest Pain While Eating With Lots Of Phlegm?
sometimes when I eat- suddenly it feels like my food is caught in my chest - hurts awful - there is always allot of spit/mucas/phelm involved - seems to come out of no where. Sometimes I can get it to go down by waiting and spitting out spit...other times I thow up and it is always the food followed by a huge blob of phlem..awful - again, doesn t happen all the time - and doesn t seem to matter what I m eating - can even be something like mashed potatoes or even soup - just comes on and suprises me... my mom seemed to have same problem in her later years - I ve been doing this for a few years now, I m 66
Mon, 6 Jul 2015
thanks for asking your question
i completely understand your problem
actually in this case coming to a diagnosis is difficult just by history.some investigations like chest xray , barium swallow , are important.
because, it can happen in variey of diseases like in bronchiectasis , a lot of phlegm production is there and you have to cough out all the phlegm out of which largest is in the morning, secondly it can be a fistula connecting your food pipe and wind pipe that can be caused by variety of reasond , this fistula causes food to go from food pipe to the wind pipe and causes expectoration of this material as it is obstructing the wind pipe
so better you consult a pulmonologist and get some investigations done
thanks/ regards
feel free to ask more questions
may god bless you with good health
i completely understand your problem
actually in this case coming to a diagnosis is difficult just by history.some investigations like chest xray , barium swallow , are important.
because, it can happen in variey of diseases like in bronchiectasis , a lot of phlegm production is there and you have to cough out all the phlegm out of which largest is in the morning, secondly it can be a fistula connecting your food pipe and wind pipe that can be caused by variety of reasond , this fistula causes food to go from food pipe to the wind pipe and causes expectoration of this material as it is obstructing the wind pipe
so better you consult a pulmonologist and get some investigations done
thanks/ regards
feel free to ask more questions
may god bless you with good health
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