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  • This sounds like "food sensitivities" to me. You are probably not sensitive to all foods, but look for a common thread between what you eat (or drink) and how uncomfortable the sneezing is. Try eliminating those most bothersome foods for a few weeks, (basically, eat differently) -- and see if that offers any relief. If you see a connection between what you eat and sneezing, then there are isolation diet techniques you can use to zero in on the foods that bother you the most. It doesn't mean you can never eat those foods again, you can reintroduce specific foods slowly (possibly very slowly), and start to develop tolerance for them that way.
  • thanks for your answer, but i sneeze with every type of food. the only difference is maybe in the amount i eat. if i eat really a lot, i might sneeze several times. other times, i'll sneeze just once or maybe even suppress the sneeze, but it's always there. well, actually, sometimes it doesn't make it all the way, i'll just get very conjested but not sneeze. but most of the time i do. i guess i sneeze about 70% of the time, suppress the sneeze about 20% of the time & just get conjested about 10% of the time. but i never just eat clean away with no sinus reaction at all. i know it's really weird. that's why i asked it here. everyone i know laughs at me, but no one can figure it out.
  • I do it, too! I started noticing it in high school. I'm in my 30s now, and I still sneeze after EVERY meal. My coworkers quickly tire of saying "bless you" after lunch and say "are you full?" instead. Like you, it doesn't seem to matter what I eat: a bowl of cereal, pizza, sushi, popcorn, steak, a cup of coffee. If I eat enough to not feel hungry anymore, I sneeze for a good long time afterward. I can't find a medical reason for it, and most people think I'm making it up. Of course, after they've had a few meals with me, they become believers. Several years ago, when I was working in a restaurant, I overheard a guy complaining to his companion that he noticed he started sneezing whenever he ate in a restaurant. Of course, I had to butt in and ask if maybe it was more to do with how much he ate. After some thought, he said that it was more often than he'd realized. So there are at least three of us in the world that have this problem. After nearly 20 years of it, my advice is to keep plenty of tissues on hand and learn to have a sense of humor about it. If you ever find the real cause, email me at amydilisio@gmail.com. I'd love to know why this happens.
  • A somewhat unusual alternative trigger of uncontrollable bursts of sneezing in particular individuals is the fullness of the stomach immediately after a large meal. This is known as snatiation and is regarded a medical disorder passed along genetically as an autosomal dominant trait.
  • My father did this as do I. I remember how at times we'd count sometimes up to 13 or so right after dinner for my dad. Afterwards (his portions were smaller) as he sit back in the living room, id be finishing up dinner and he'd hear me sneezing one after the other, and just when you thought "wow, that came from my toes", along came another. Yes, I agree with the above people, that my close friends are now believers and that the bless you stop after the first few. I used to eat very large bowls of cereal and thought it was the milk, but I did narrow it down to heavy dense foods like bowls of soup, cereal, mac and cheese, etc. Amazing that they actually have a name for this "symptom". Brian in Philadelphia
  • I totally do the same thing. It is extremely bothersome, particularly after romantic dinners. How nice is it after a nice meal and long, desire-filled glances, and then I'm sneezing up a storm. It doesn't matter what I eat or when, but it happens more often when I go out to eat rather than at home (peculiar, huh?). Anyway, I call it the "going out to eat disease" and sneeze after any meal, but mostly in restaurants.
  • I really don't know, ask your doctor.
  • Don't know, but whenever my husband eats a mint he goes into a sneezing fit.
  • Its a disorder I have it as well and I got it from my father, for him its no so bad as for me, and my brother have it only in the morning. EXPLANATION: its a glandul that make us snezz when necesary (dust or so)and some of us have that glandule extremly conected with our stomach so when we eat and the stomach expand it self then distur that glandul and make us sneez.
  • WELL SNEEZING AFTER EATING A MEAL COULD BE A REACTION FROM YOUR WHEN YOUR STOMACH DISTENDS. I HAVE THE SAME REACTION. I FOUND EATING SMALLER MEALS THOUGHOUT THE DAY, INSTEAD OF A LARGE MEAL FOR DINNER HELPS GREATLY. IF THIS DOES NOT HELP SEE YOUR DOCTOR FOR ADVISE.
  • OH MY GOSH! There ARE other people in this world who share this "problem"! It IS mostly when I'm full or have something minty. My mom, brother, sisters and son all share this issue. Imagine the embarrassment when we went to an all you can eat buffet and we ALL started having sneezing fits! Nice to know we aren't "freaks."
  • Wow, and I thought having my nose itch every time I ate fried foods was wierd. I have no idea. ;+
  • Snatiation is a medical disorder characterized by uncontrollable bursts of sneezing brought on by fullness of the stomach, and typically observed in sufferers immediately after a large meal. It is thought to be passed along genetically as an autosomal dominant trait. The phenomenon was first described by Ahmad Teebi and Qasem Al-Saleh.[1] The term "SNATIATION" was coined by Judith G. Hall. The term is a backronym created from a portmanteau of the words sneeze and satiation. It stands for (S)neezing (N)on-controllably (A)t a (T)ime of (I)ndulgence of the (A)ppetite—a (T)rait (I)nherited and (O)rdained to be (N)amed
  • You are not alone; I do this too. From what I have learned it is called gustatory rhinitis. You are not weird; there are more of us than people can imagine. You can learn a bit more at this website. http://www.everydayhealth.com/internal-medicine-specialist/sneezing-after-dinner.aspx Now that you know what it is called there is a plethora of information on the web.

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