1st case of the foamies

Yesterday I had a reduced fat string cheese as a snack-thought I had chewed it well. Well got a stuck feeling in my throat and shortly after that a bout of the foamies. What causes that? Not chewed well enough? Ate too fast? I do have a history of esophagus stricture but he went through that pipe while he did surgery(also had a hiatal hernia that needed fixin) It did not hurt-just a inconvenience.

You're a week out and can eat cheese? WOW! That's insane! It's very interesting the different diets the surgeons use.

You probably didn't chew well enough, ate too fast and probably ate too much.

I had a hard time with string cheese when I first moved to solids. Softer cheese like Colby-Jack or cheddar went down fine I'm sure because they're much creamier.  I only recently tried string cheese again and it's fine now.

I think if I recall, the foamies are caused by your body trying to spit up the food, so it produces alot of saliva to help it along. (Don't quote me on that though)

I will be having Dr. Lederer also and according to my instructions, I think they recommend that we are supposed to be on "mushed up" foods when a week out. That could be why that happened.

i had string cheese about 2 weeks post op and the same thing happened. It turned out that I was lactose intolerant...