Whenever I eat food which is even vaguely spicy, my nose seems to run. Why is this? I know other people who say it happens to them too, so I’m not just a solitary freak or anything. I hope. Does anyone else have this problem?
This also happens to me. Not just my nose though. Particularly when eating Indian food. Tears, and sweat at the back of my neck and forehead…Love the stuff anyway!
Some people suffer from excessive runny nose while eating spicy food through the mediation of vagus nerve, this is known as: gustatory rhinitis. There is no solution to this problem at present, one need not worry much about this as this lasts only for few minutes after food.
from this site:
http://www.coldresearch.org/2.htm
The key thing to remember is that it’s not an allergic phenomenon and the incidence of it rises quite a bit after the age of 40.
http://casestudies.hopkins-allergy.org/case_studies/viewpoint.html?viewpointid=142&caseid=202