Rumor has it that if you eat something fat with a sore throat, then this fat will envelop your throat with a film, and microbes will multiply under this film, like in a greenhouse.
There is indeed a film in the throat from some foods. But with a sore throat, this is not harmful, but useful. Honey, various candies, glycerin and other similar things are just called enveloping agents. That is, creating a film in the throat.
Well, now everyone already knows that ice cream with a sore throat reduces pain. And ice cream is a fat thing. If the fat hurt your throat, then the ice cream would hurt too.
So where did the story about the oily film in the throat come from?
Let's reiterate that a film in the throat is useful. Now let's think about fat.
The only story in which fat harms the throat is laryngopharyngeal reflux.
Many have heard about the reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus. This is the so-called gastroesophageal reflux. It may be accompanied by heartburn.
The acid from the stomach scalds the esophagus, and we feel heartburn.
So, with laryngopharyngeal reflux, the same gastric contents enter the esophagus, but are thrown a little higher - into the larynx or pharynx.
In laryngopharyngeal reflux, it is not acid that acts on the throat, but gastric enzymes like pepsin. They digest proteins, and they digest our throats too. The throat from this is inflamed, sore and sore.
Fatty foods increase reflux because they stay in the stomach for a long time. Fat lingers there, mixes and tries to digest.
All this time, enzymes fly into the throat and maintain inflammation.
This is why it is harmful for people with both gastroesophageal reflux and laryngopharyngeal reflux to eat a lot of fat.
It turns out that a sore throat from fatty foods. But the point is not in greasy films and the greenhouse effect, but in gastric juice, which splashes into the larynx or pharynx. This is rare, so don't bother.
