Last week, I went to a buffet and really overate. Then, I got a cough for what seemed no reason. I took a sip of soda and then made myself burp several times. This stopped the coughing. Later, I wondered if my full stomach pressing against my diaphragm had caused the cough as I have no history of acid reflux or other similar digestive disorders, which is all I could find relating coughing and eating. I’m not asking for a medical diagnosis, just information that I can’t seem to find.
Do you remember the last thing you ate, prior to the coughing? Was it extremely sweet? I had a thread on that a long time ago, and I don’t think there was much of a conclusion.
Could be you aspirated a bit of food that refluxed up from your loathsomely bloated stomach, resulting in a cough.
You might be onto something with the diaphragm pressure but I have no idea.
I’ve sometimes gotten a slight cough when drinking something very cold, but that doesn’t sound like what you described.
Acid reflux can definitely cause coughing. It might also be related to overeating.
Diaphragm irritation usually causes hiccups (if anything). The c-fibers responsible for the cough reflex are located in the upper airway (trachea, bonchii and bronchioles). Reflux/aspiration would be my guess as well.
I’m more familiar with that concept than I’d like to be :mad: but a question: I had thought that such cough would be more common when lying down, as in you wouldn’t be aware of the reflux but just of the resulting cough. Am I mistaken? (that’s what led to an ACE inhibitor side effect being misdiagnosed as GERD in my case).
Could it just be coincidence? Perhaps it’s allergy to pollen in the air that just took a few minutes before it made you react.
Or a mild food allergy.