Coughing up a lung

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Avatar f tn Haha I thought you literally coughed up a lung -.
2075737 tn?1379447682 try a vapor bath (i know there is a baby vapor bath product) and poor a bunch into the bathtub and steam yourself out, or my grandma always used to do a warm bath and have her husband pat (pretty hard) on her back and she swore it really helped loosen mucus
Avatar m tn Coughing up blood could be due to an infection a sinus infection or a lung infection. Sometimes trauma to the lungs can cause this or it could just be throat irritation. Therapy lies in treating the underlying cause. With your symptoms it is likely you may have developed respiratory infection . Please consult your primary care physician for further evaluation. Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
Avatar f tn Other possible causes of coughing up blood include COPD, lung cancer, tuberculosis, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia and lung abscess to name a few. Also, check to see if he is on blood thinners for heart disease, this could be causing the bleeding. I suggest he should go the ER, for immediate evaluation. Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
663213 tn?1225070222 This is a relatively new thing and it has become a concern as prior to coughing it up I always get a perfume or soapy taste in the back of my throat. (Please do not insult my intelligence by asking if I had applied perfume or got soap in my mouth) I have for a very long time coughed up a nasty colored mucus due to being a smoker, so this is a real shock to me. Do you have any suggestions with credible origins that might explain this? Your response will be greatly appreciated Alice.
Avatar f tn A related discussion, <a href='/posts/show/1513875'>coughing up blood in mucos</a> was started.
1283791 tn?1276818314 I woke up this morning and coughed up phlem that had blood in it.... I am a smoker could this be lung cancer? Everytine I have coughed since it was clear mucus I am 29 yrs old been smoking since i was 15. But over the last 2 yrs cut down to a half a pack a day. Someon pls help....
Avatar n tn it gets worse when i talk a lot . i have a have chest pains and dizziness after coughing up blood and have a shortness of breath what do u think it is ??
Avatar m tn I don't know if this is pertinent, but Advair caused such extreme coughing (almost incapacitating bronchitis) that I stopped using it. As for Spiriva, I find it extremely drying. I only use it every fourth day. On that regimen it helps. My lung health is actually much better and I am more comfortable since I gave up Advair, and my coughing is moderate. Advair also caused me to develop adrenal fatigue, which was quite dreadful, and I am still recovering from it.
Avatar n tn I told him that I was not coughing up blood nor had I been coughing up blood. My family doctor then stated to me that I would cough up blood and then it would be too late for me. I have trusted my family doctor for some years, but I felt this was a very negative statement by him to me. I have deeply researched COPD, try to remain encouraged and I felt this doctor was giving me an immediate death sentence. This has greatly upset me.
Avatar m tn Pulmonologist can order CT Scan of the chest or sputum culture( lung secretions) to rule out any infection. Ask your family Doctor for these test or a referral to see a lung specialist. Thank you for your question and good luck.
Avatar n tn As a result she is very prone to bronchitis, which in turn ushers in long periods of painful and scary coughing. Often, she cannot breathe during a coughing fit. She takes the prescribed medicines (Codeine, Albuterol, etc.), but still has frequent coughing episodes. Many years ago, she knew a physician on your staff who taught patients how to sit down, breathe,etc. in a way that would stop or prevent a violent coughing episode. She no longer knows that person's name.
Avatar m tn 2 weeks ago, after working out, I began couging severly for about 30 seconds. After it ended I began couging up a small about of blood. In all it probably measured up to almost a tablespoon, and then ended. The next morning my chest felt like someone had hit me with a baseball bat. I went to the doctor the following day and he listened to my lungs, did the normal pushing of my stomach, checked ear, nose, and throat, and ran some blood tests.
Avatar n tn I wake up in the morning and in the middle of the night coughing up a lot of the little mucus balls. It happens a little bit through out the day. Sometimes they are balls and sometimes they are like a hair, but made of mucus. I am very scared and do not have health insurance. I am 25, and thought I was pretty healthy. Please someone, HELP!
Avatar n tn for about 2months now I have had a cough, lots of mucus, wheezing, when I cough now i pee on myself which is embarrasing.
Avatar m tn It was hypothesized that it spread there from her lung because a previous CT scan showed a 3cm tumor on her right lung. Pulmonologists performed a bronchoscopy to sample the tumor and send it for a biopsy. But they reported to her the next day that they were unable to find the tumor. They sampled a lymph node instead. My mother believes that she may have just coughed it up, but she doesn't remember coughing up anything significant. Is this possible? If not, what may have happened?
Avatar n tn Two years ago I was admitted to the hospital to the hospital for coughing up blood . Being that my mother had TB. I told them I would come up positive every time I had the test . Prior to being admitted I had a significant amount of blood I was given IVs and started treatment for TB Now again I was at work and started coughing up blood .
Avatar f tn It can be nothing scary, and hopefully that's all it is. You may have coughed so hard that you ruptured a small blood vessel. You do need to see a doctor about this, though, and you do need to stop smoking. (No big news flash there, I'm sure. I apologize, but it has to be said.) Let's hope and pray this is not what you're afraid of, but let it be a wake-up call. Please take it seriously. My brother died of lung cancer at age 50. Good luck.
206807 tn?1331936184 Never had an esophageal bleed but once those vessels burst it entails a lot more than just coughing up blood. As a rule those blood vessels just don't seal themselves back up and bleeding out can happen quickly. Did you see Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart? He was a bad alcoholic and towards the end the old boy was dying from the booze, p-issing himself, coughing up blood and on his way out. That was a pretty fair depiction of a raging alcoholic.
348629 tn?1212325673 Yes, indeed, it can be a symptom of lung cancer. Hope that your dad got evaluated by now. Best of luck.
Avatar m tn The other possibility is that you are coughing up blood. This can be due to bronchitis or pneumonia, lung cancers (especially in smokers), tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, pulmonary embolism, or fungal and other infections. Discuss these possibilities with your doctor. A comprehensive investigation is required keeping all the points in mind. Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!
Avatar m tn Before I answer, you should also try to post over in the allergy or asthma forum, they will know more about your son's condition than this gastroenterology (abdominal, below diaphram) forum. But the hyperaeration is just a fancy word for saying his lungs are blown up rather large because he's got some kind of blockage going on in his breathing tubes.
Avatar n tn All pet scans are clear and x-rays clear still I have a cough that sometimes is that of a heavy smoker. Coughing brings up clear mucus. Other than this cough I feel great. Any suggestions on how to take care of the cough?
Avatar m tn m allergic to penicillin), and told me to take tylenol four times a day. My symptoms leading up to this were dry cough, wheezing, and coughing fits so violent it set off my gag reflex and it has hard to breath. From the violent coughing my ribs were killing me (i had to hold my ribs every time i coughed) and my throat was killing me. As the days progressed it got worse and I was getting no sleep from coughing all night so I went to the doc.
Avatar m tn My dog had a bit of a cough/huffing over the spring that went away in its own. He went in to the vet for a problem with his "goopy eyes" that cleared up nicely with garasone at the beginning of August. Around August 25 I took him to the vet as he started huffing/coughing/hacking overnight. It really sounded like there was something stuck in his throat that he couldnt get rid of. He was put on a round of tetracycline + coedine. The cough improved but never fully went away.
Avatar n tn My friend has been experiencing LUNG pain, coughing up blood and excessive sweating for three years now. The pain is felt every time he breathes and has increased in severity over this time frame, especially when he is resting or trying to sleep at night. He says he feels the pain in his back, on the left side. His skin still has its natural hue. He says he has NO chest pain and no pain in his arm or other extremities. He says it began after a head injury during a tennis match.
Avatar f tn after a normal xray, the result says that suspicious densities are found in the upper lung of my friend. they advised for an apicolordotic view...and the result says that he has clear lungs and densities found was maybe due due to koch infection? so how is it now? is his result normal? or he needs to have another test? is \densities was really due to koch infection? because they used the word "maybe due to"...is he okay now?