A strong cough after dinner is considered to be related to dietary factors and airway foreign bodies. Secondly, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), chronic pharyngitis and other disease factors are also common causes of coughing after dinner. 1. Dietary factors: If you eat more greasy, spicy or irritating food at dinner, your airway will be irritated and you will have a cough. 2. Foreign body in the airway: If you eat quickly and accidentally inhale food such as vegetable scraps and rice grains into the airway, you will also have a violent choking cough. 3. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD): If there is GERD, coughing symptoms will occur after dinner, mainly due to the esophagus being stimulated by the reflux of duodenal and gastric contents, resulting in damage to the esophageal mucous membrane; at the same time, the pharynx is stimulated by the reflux of substances will also have a pronounced cough, which will be accompanied by heartburn and other manifestations. 4. Chronic pharyngitis: some patients with chronic pharyngitis, coughing symptoms after dinner, can be triggered by inappropriate dietary triggers such as itchy pharynx, sore throat and other discomforts, and then coughing symptoms. There are many other reasons for coughing after dinner, such as lung infections, etc. It is recommended to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause and follow the doctor’s instructions, so as not to cause more serious consequences.