 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Some people that tend to have a flood of mucus when eating hot peppers usually experience the same thing with milk. Not all of them. It's called gustatory rhinitis and is thought to be some form of allergy by one camp; immune reaction by another. I don't believe it increases production as much as thickens or just temporarily changes the viscosity which causes the gag when it trickles down the back of the throat.
Just a clarification of my OP.
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