Allergy?

Suzee · 05-02-2013, 08:44 AM

I made the cream cheese muffins this morning and had a couple. I am now coughing and hacking. I'm thinking back on having yogurt and cottage cheese and occasionally coughing then. Maybe an allergy? I see my doc in a month and he's pretty open minded about LC.

ravenrose · 05-02-2013, 09:36 AM

ask the doc, of course, but I don't think real food allergies are expressed in coughing. it's normally a swelling of the lips or back of the throat, I think. it could just be these things irritate you or get your saliva flowing in a way that makes you cough, not the same thing as an allergy, necessarily. good luck.

Leo41 · 05-02-2013, 04:25 PM

Dairy products are known to be mucous producing, and I've known people who had a 'sensitivity' to dairy that resulted in coughs because of the excess mucous they suddenly experienced if they ate dairy products.

I don't eat dairy normally, but I recently had 10 days on antibiotics, and I followed it with ten days of eating Greek yoghurt to try to revive some of the good intestinal flora that the antibiotics would have wiped out.

I noticed a marked increase in mucous which I attributed to the yoghurt because it was gone when I'd finished with it.

05-02-2013, 08:44 AM	#1
Suzee Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: ABQ, NM Posts: 24 Gallery: Suzee Stats: 234/200.6/165 WOE: Atkins 30-40 carbs per day Start Date: Restart April 2013	Allergy? I made the cream cheese muffins this morning and had a couple. I am now coughing and hacking. I'm thinking back on having yogurt and cottage cheese and occasionally coughing then. Maybe an allergy? I see my doc in a month and he's pretty open minded about LC.

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05-02-2013, 09:36 AM	#2
ravenrose . Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: California Posts: 9,080 Gallery: ravenrose Stats: lost 130 lb so far, and miles to go before I sleep WOE: low carb controlled calorie Start Date: June, 2009	ask the doc, of course, but I don't think real food allergies are expressed in coughing. it's normally a swelling of the lips or back of the throat, I think. it could just be these things irritate you or get your saliva flowing in a way that makes you cough, not the same thing as an allergy, necessarily. good luck.

05-02-2013, 04:25 PM	#3
Leo41 Senior LCF member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 8,426 Gallery: Leo41 Stats: 340 then/145 now WOE: Low carb/calorie cycling	Dairy products are known to be mucous producing, and I've known people who had a 'sensitivity' to dairy that resulted in coughs because of the excess mucous they suddenly experienced if they ate dairy products. I don't eat dairy normally, but I recently had 10 days on antibiotics, and I followed it with ten days of eating Greek yoghurt to try to revive some of the good intestinal flora that the antibiotics would have wiped out. I noticed a marked increase in mucous which I attributed to the yoghurt because it was gone when I'd finished with it.