Can someone explain why I cough so much after eating a pear drop?!
Can someone explain why I cough so much after eating a pear drop?
is it just me, or is there anyone else out there who loves pear drops but can't eat them for fear of a coughing fit?
Answers:
I don't THINK I get coughing fits, but I've not had pear drops for eons.
I think the reason they make you cough is because of the strong vapours they release. Does the smell of nail polish make you cough, too?
I guess one way of making the vapours less strong is to have milk at the same time as the pear drops (A milkshake will do)
Read the label. Does it have an EXPECTORANT in the ingredients? If so, it is supposed to cause you to cough so that you may get the mucous out of your lungs.
Funny! I have the same, it is as if the vapour they give off make me cough, i find it difficult eating them, though i love them. I'd be interested to find out why this is!
no clue but it MIGHT be an allergy
ask a doctor
It has to do with the chemicals they put in the sweets. It happens to me when I drink certain soft drinks. Look around for natural pear drops, in health stores, which aren't made with additives.
I'm the same. They're mad fumey beasties. I could kill a rat infestation with one carefully placed pear-drop in the ventilation system.
The pear drops flavour is made by an ether (a chemical) like ethyl acetate Im not sure which one it is but one of those. With preservatives it maybe the certain ether used that tickles your throat as it is absorbed by the mucus and through the throat lining. The pear drop is all chemicals even the sugar (which is the chemical sucrose) so maybe that is why.
I think it might be because they make you produce so much saliva that you end up swallowing the saliva without meaning to whilst you are sucking on the sweet, and it triggers off a coughing fit.
Suppose you could always have a cough drop instead....!!