• Nasal discharge during mastication?

Every time I eat my nose runs. It is embarrassing eating in public. I do not take any regular medication and am otherwise quite fit and healthy.

4 Answers

  • Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor (ENT)
  • Rockville, MD

That could be vasomotor rhinitis. Does it depend on the temperature of the food you're eating?

  • Ear-Nose and Throat Doctor (ENT)
  • New York, New York

The same component of the nervous system which causes « digestive secretions » to increase to aid the digestive process can cause the symptom you're describing.

  • Ear-Nose and Throat Doctor (ENT)
  • Larkspur, California

Physiologic event that occurs in older individuals due to parasympathetic innervation response to food intake. Can be incited by certain foods and odors. It is hyperactive vasomotor rhinitis. Can be form of dysautonomia. Have your doctor Rx Atrovent nasal spray. Spray your nasal airways with this medication thirty minutes before meals.

  • Ear-Nose and Throat Doctor (ENT)
  • La Mesa, CA

Ask your ENT doctor about a condition called Vasomotor Rhinitis. There are some nasal sprays that can help if that’s what it is.

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