<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.hi doc, I am 5 ft 7 bout 145 in weight and I have developed a coughing problem while eating everything. Thought maybe something had scratched and irriatated my throat but just eating eggs make me cough like I m dying. Coughing, throat hurts and it feels extremely tight!!! I suffer from severe migraines, I had asthma when I was little but haven t had an attack in a good 10 years. I have had pleurisy and also pericidatis, I have mitral valve prolapse ...any idea what the cough could stem from  <response>: Hi Hillside, Is the cough productive;-brings out much sputum, I think your answer is-No! Then you have got a Hacking cough, It can be caused by many factors but because in your case eating anything precipitates a bout of cough; So I would think of a problem in upper airway rather than down it. Frequent causes are ViralHis Epiglottis, Vocal Cord Palsy, If you are an elderly then supra nuclear palsy, Some benignmalignant tumors of vocal cord region, A Singers nodule if you are excessive user of speech. A Otorhinolaryngologist is the right person to be consulted at the earliest. Take CARE! 