Shortness of breath after eating usually comes from what a meal does to the space inside your chest and abdomen. A full stomach pushes up against the diaphragm, your main breathing muscle, so it has less room to move down when you breathe in. The same stretch of the …
A white coating on your tongue is usually a buildup of dead cells, bacteria and food debris trapped between the tiny bumps (papillae) on its surface. It’s most often caused by a dry mouth, mouth breathing, dehydration, not cleaning your tongue, smoking or alcohol. It’s normally harmless and clears …
Waking up nauseous usually comes down to something that happened in your stomach overnight. The most common causes are reflux while you were lying flat, an empty stomach and low blood sugar after a long fast, swallowed mucus from post nasal drip, anxiety, alcohol, poor sleep, and medications taken …
To get rid of post nasal drip, you have to treat whatever is producing it. If the mucus comes from your nose, that means allergies, a lingering cold, sinus inflammation or irritants, and saline rinses, steroid nasal sprays and the right antihistamine are the tools that work. If the …
Your ears usually feel clogged for one of two reasons: something is blocking the ear canal, usually earwax, or the pressure behind your eardrum isn’t equalizing because your Eustachian tube isn’t opening properly. The Eustachian tube is a small channel that runs from your middle ear to the back …
Coughing after eating is most often caused by acid reflux. A meal stretches your stomach, and that stretch makes the valve at the top of your stomach open more often. Stomach contents then move up the esophagus, and they can set off a cough in two ways: through a …