AKA Clinton Fatigue
A symptom of something more serious.
“...... is preventing your normal gag reflex. “
Errr..ummmm..ah heck some jokes just write themselves.
A coroner explained it thus: throwing up and food entering the lungs. It was the death knell for an alcoholic friend of mine.
If you aspirate (inhale) food, liquid, or vomit into your lungs the contamination causes pneumonia. You can also aspirate food or liquid from your stomach that backs up into your esophagus when you are drunk or merely sleeping in a horizontal position. It often happens in the elderly when they have swallowing problems.
I recently had to care for a woman who developed severe aspiration pneumonia during minor surgery. In this case, the GE junction was blocked due to stomach cancer and the surgeon and anesthesiologist did not know it prior to surgery. This blockage causes the esophagus to act as a reservoir for food and liquids which emptied into the lungs during anesthesia for surgery.
A symptom of this is when a person wakes up during the night with coughing spells, spitting up phlegm. They find that sleeping upright in a recliner chair protects the esophagus contents from spilling out and into the lungs. (I have this problem is I eat late at night prior to bed.)
In this person the esophagus contents spilled into the lungs causing aspiration pneumonia and a side effect was complete amnesia. A barium swallow is often used to determine the root cause of the aspiration if there is an esophagus problem.
Hillary is an overweight alcoholic. She probably has acid reflux, or GERD as it is called. That can cause a chronic dry cough, and it can cause the aspiration of stomach acids into the lungs if one is passed out drunk when it happens.
Killed my brother.
One would think it's pneumonia you aspire to.
... It is usually secondary to a neurological pathology — MS, Parkinson, Stroke, Dementia ... loss of the ability to manage swallowing saliva —especially while sleeping or unconscious.
... The human body makes a couple of quarts of saliva per day.
My wife is a doctor, and she has asked why Hillary has coughing fits if it’s not aspiration pneumonia.