Gino wrote:

> Why does your nose run when eating hot/spicy foods? The best I can find
> it this, but makes no sense to me:
>
> "Spicy hot food has a chemical called capsaicin which stimulates your
> respiratory tract and your digestive tract to release more mucus because
> they both share a region called the pharanx, the throat. Capsaicin
> stimulates the thermoreceptors that register temperature."

My nose runs when I eat *any* kind of food - hot (spicy), hot
(temp), cold. It runs more when I eat things like hot soup
and hot (spicy) foods, but it even runs when I eat ice cream.
It's very annoying. Everyone in the family has this problem
so I think it is at least partly genetic.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?