What’s with the runny nose when you eat hot, spicy food?

Eating hot spicy will runny nose may be a normal physiological phenomenon, such as food stimulation, but may also be disease factors such as allergic rhinitis, vasomotor rhinitis.
1. Physiological phenomenon: eating hot and spicy has a certain degree of irritation, chili peppers contain capsaicin, after eating will stimulate the nasal mucosal glands to secrete secretions, thus causing the symptoms of a runny nose.
2. allergic rhinitis: also known as allergic rhinitis, is atopic individual exposure to allergens after the emergence of a chronic inflammatory disease of the nasal mucosa, manifested by a large amount of watery nasal discharge and nasal congestion, so may be eating chili peppers or some kind of allergic reaction to food, thus causing the symptoms of a runny nose.
3. vasomotor rhinitis: its pathogenesis is complex, may be related to autonomic dysfunction, may also be due to certain stimulus factors, manifested as increased watery nasal discharge, nasal congestion, which may lead to eat hot spicy will runny nose symptoms.
Excluding normal physiological phenomena, there may be other causes of the above symptoms, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, to identify the causes of targeted treatment.