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Why does your nose run when you eat hot food? |
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Spicy hot food has a chemical called capsaicin which stimulates your respiratory tract and your digestive tract to release more mucus because they both share a region called the pharanx, the throat. Capsaicin stimulates the thermoreceptors that register temperature.
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