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[|Human|] sometimes when I eat- suddenly it feels like my food is caught in my chest - hurts awful - there is always allot of spit/mucas/phelm involved - seems to come out of no where. Sometimes I can get it to go down by waiting and spitting out spit...other times I thow up and it is always the food followed by a huge blob of phlem..awful - again, doesn t happen all the time - and doesn t seem to matter what I m eating - can even be something like mashed potatoes or even soup - just comes on and suprises me... my mom seemed to have same problem in her later years - I ve been doing this for a few years now, I m 66
[|AI|]  Thanks for asking your question completely understand your problem actually in this case coming to a diagnosis is difficult just by history. Some investigations like chest X-ray, barium swallow, are important. Because, it can happen in variety of diseases like in bronchiectasis, a lot of phlegm production is there, and you have to cough out all the phlegm out of which largest is in the morning, secondly it can be a fistula connecting your food pipe and wind pipe that can be caused by variety of reason, this fistula causes food to go from food pipe to the wind pipe and causes expectoration of this material as it is obstructing the wind pipes better you consult a pulmonologist and get some investigations done thanks/ regards feel free to ask more questions may god bless you with good health