Wondering if there may be a connection between Post Nasal Drip and Keto? Anyone experience this and would suggest how they were able to get rid of it? Thanks.
Post Nasal Drip and Keto?
Thatās a new one for me. Of course not all symptoms are keto-related, but I bet ha someone here will have an antidote.
Mine is a lot better on keto than it used to be. Are you taking an antihistamine? That might help. And possibly a decongestant, as well, though in the U.S. Sudafed (pseudoephedrine) is difficult to come by, these days.
Some people find that dairy products stimulate their mucus production. How much cream and cheese are you eating (butter shouldnāt have that effect).
Thanks Paul. Yes, I am taking an antihistamine, makes the nasal passage dry up but not much help. I dont eat cheese anymore, and very little cream or dairy. My doc prescribed a nasal cortisteroid spray which was of no help. So I was wondering if others have had this issue on Keto as I am trying to eliminate possibilities.
Yes due to a lot of keto foods being histamine liberators. Nuts, cheese, dairy, leafy greens etc
Histamine is broken down by diamineoxidase DAO and you can buy supplements to help with this when your āhistamine bucketā gets full. Alternatively, you can limit those foods to a tolerable level. Just try things out and see what helps and what doesnāt.
I would add though that itās tree pollen season in a lot of parts of the world and that can affect a lot of people, so it could just be environmental.
Same here.
Forced to estimate, Iād say my ever-so-slightly-runny nose has been ever-so-slightly-less-runny on keto. But thatād be splitting (nose) hairs.
If itās really troubling, @Milliecake1234 and @PaulLās suggestion to explore whether certain foods might aggravate things could be worth a try. (Frankly, mine was never bothersome enough to go there, so Iāve got no personal experience to share.)
Like @MattWisti, Iāve had this all my life. My wife even invented the term postnatal drip - to say Iāve had it all my life.
I canāt associate it with having gone keto, but I think Iāve needed to be on keto all my life, so maybe needing to be on keto makes it more likely. Canāt prove it by me.
This is our pollen season and itās bothering me more now, but Iāve been through the allergist de-sensitizing shots three times over 15 years, and now just use OTC allergy things.
In the early 1970ās my mother was being treated for allergies, and in those days in this area, a bad pollen count was 450. These days, pollen counts are often 4500 (yes, thereās an extra zero on that number).
I remember a week, about nine years ago, when the pollen count where I was living at the time was so bad that even people who were not allergic to pollen were experiencing symptoms.
I had have a histamine intolerance for a few years so cannot eat any tinned, cured or processed fish or meat. Spinach and eggplant/aubergine, are also very high in histamine so l canāt eat them either. Taking otc anti histamines do not help my reaction so l just have to avoid those foods. It has been suggested that l have a leaky gut, due to gut dysbiosis, which means that chemicals can leak into the blood stream when they arenāt supposed to, causing reactions.
My nose also runs in cold weather and if l eat hot food!
Eating a ketogenic diet should help you, then, since the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate is even better for the intestine than the butyrate produced by certain bacteria that feed on fibre.
@PaulL. Yes, l am very much hoping so . My reason for starting the keto diet is not to lose weight, but primarily to try to heal my gut and digestive problems which have been giving me awful trouble.
Sometimes that is caused by a previous virus infection that is gone but your body does not realize it. Symptoms of this are being very tired and a constant drippy nose. āLong Covidā is one of these. Antihistamines do help. If you are avoiding drugs, the Traditional Chinese Medicine also have some stuff.
Or perhaps, you have hay fever. I do. Xanthium 12 works well for me. Much better than drugs. Helps with asthma too:
But you are probably reacting to something you ate. Dairy gets blamed for this a lot. Keep in mind that Keto is the least inflammatory diet.