Coughing Up Phlegm

[ukbikerman]

New poster here, been diagnosed with coeliac for 6 years. Fit and healthy with no other known ills or ailments!

I try to live a gluten-free lifestyle but sometimes (intentially or accidentally) I ingest gluton; within minutes I find myself coughing up small amounts of phlegm or feeling the need to cough and clear my chest - this usually lasts around ten minutes.

I cannot relate this coughing to any particular type of food so suspect it is related to the gluton itself - my question is does anyone else experience this and is it a typical reaction? I've never had it before being diagnosed and it only started within the last year.

Thanks

[sam0910]

Hi,

I've only known that I'm celiac since September 2010, but I have been coughing up phlegm chronically for a long time. It's definitely plausible that it could be celiac-related because of the overreactive immune response. I also think coughing up phlegm is somewhat of an athletic thing. I'm a runner, and when you're running it's a lot easier to clear your sinuses by coughing it up than blowing into a hankie. So i wonder if perhaps this habit has crossed over into my non-athletic life. That said, I definitely have a lot more mucus to cough up than the average person.

New poster here, been diagnosed with coeliac for 6 years. Fit and healthy with no other known ills or ailments!

I try to live a gluten-free lifestyle but sometimes (intentially or accidentally) I ingest gluton; within minutes I find myself coughing up small amounts of phlegm or feeling the need to cough and clear my chest - this usually lasts around ten minutes.

I cannot relate this coughing to any particular type of food so suspect it is related to the gluton itself - my question is does anyone else experience this and is it a typical reaction? I've never had it before being diagnosed and it only started within the last year.

Thanks