Posted 9/8/2015 1:37 AM (GMT 0)
Hi millenialOM.
Does the mucus come on after eating everything? certain textures or flavors? or just certain meals or foods?
It might be helpful to see a good allergist and get some testing to start with.
There's no easy answer, probably no one test that will show exactly what's causing the mucus increase. But you can help rule out foods one at a time all by yourself. On your own, you can do what my allergist had me do: keep a food journal. Put food journal in the search box at the top of the page. Lots of people on the allergy forum have had success with this approach to finding their "trigger foods."
I wouldn't stop eating a whole lot of things at once or worrying about pH of foods. Your stomach will just keep making acid, that it needs for digestion.
There is no one-fits-all diet. After I found my list of trigger foods, I put them in Google and found what they all had in common. The day I eliminated my articular chemical trigger my reflux stopped, well, as long as I was vertical. I still had a bad LES valve, but I stopped having the heaving and burping.
I'm fine with milk as long as it's lactose-free. Most adults are lactose intolerant. I don't tolerate more than one egg every few days, but egg contains my food trigger.
Pumpkin is fine for me, but the spices cause my reaction, especially ginger. Barley could be a problem if you don't tolerate wheat. Test those on separate days.
How do you test? It's called "challenge test." I've posted several explanations of that, and you can look them up in the archives (search box) too. Allergists now insist that patients do this in their offices, probably fearing a severe reaction. Your reaction is just mucus, or is there anything more?
I don't get the mucus reaction, so I wouldn't necessarily think that you have the same trigger as I have.
It costs nothing to keep a notebook on your kitchen counter. And see an allergist. The notebook will help him too. Best wishes.