coughing white mucus

Do you mean your coughing up white flem? Usually if the flem is white there is no infection. Have you taken any Meds for your cough?

Second day I started to get a sore throat and started coughing really hard with a lot of dark green mucus coming out of my coughs. My nose usually stayed runny all day but usually at night when I'd go to sleep it wouldn't run. But I started coughing and sometimes there's blood in the mucus when I cough up, little amounts in the mucus. My temperature was 99.8, but recently around after day 5 my soar throat went away.

After getting over a cold I would cough up mucus the doctore gave antibiotics in order to clear it up and now I am coughing a white foamy saliva that is very aggervating. I try not to I took my medicine to stop the coughing but it still will be there. It interrupt people at work and it embarassing. Please help and tell me is there something that you can tell me to do to stop this or what time of medicine to take to dry it and stop the drop the cough if it is so.

I frequently cough up "pure white sticky mucus. 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?

Iv never seen that much discharge my hole pregnancy also the way it look was like white jelly in my vagina. Could this mean my mucus plug is braking. Or early labor. I also just had a nose bleed.

hi my dad constantly spits up white sticky phlegm all day, every day! He will not go and see a doctor but he also finds it very hard to breathe. he did used to smoke and stopped almost a year ago and this has been happening since then. Its never dis-colored phlegm always pure white and sticky what could this be??

t know blood in the mucus was a symptom of tonsiltis (I have been coughing very little).

I have been to the doctor several times over coughing, taken bunches of medicine, when the medicine runs out I cough again. I have sinus drainage, allergies (for which I have had two years of shots), my nose isn't clogged and I do not have sinus headaches, occasional sinus pressure, nothing bad. The past several winters I get a "viral infection" and I cough, mostly at night, I get this a couple of times a year, late fall and mid spring.

Barbara533 Have you tried an antihistamine? rushtyyyyy green and yellow flem should not be coming up from allergy unless it is stomach acid. Usually allergy is clear mucus. I'm not a doctor but I wonder if it is a bacteria infection. Sorry I don't know the correct answer. Maybe the doctors are correct too. I just personally haven't heard of colored mucus from allergy. Allergy can cause mucus that can lead to bacteria infection too. See another doctor.

There have been a few days, after I have chewed maybe 10-12 pieces that day, where I experience a strange mucus like membrane on the inside of my mouth that seems to be seperating from my cheeks/lips. I usually cant tell until after I have brushed my teeth and rinsed with Listerine. At first I thought it was dead skin (maybe from the nic gum?) but upon further review it appears to be white sputum.

What started as a sore throat has affected my lungs, difficulty breathing,(mainly exhaling)(raspy sound in throat when exhaling) coughing up rust, white and yellow mucus. I start to feel better, and then bam it gets worse. now it feels like there is gross mucus trapped in my lungs, & i dont know how to get it out. Sometimes after i cough, the phlegm is so bad it makes me sick to my stomach. I dont want to go to Dr. to be told its just a virus.

after my bypass i followed up with my heart surgen they did a chest xray in march because of coughing the dr said mild fluid left lung nothing to worry about it is now july i wheeze during exertion and i wake up 3 times a night with coughing and wheezing i spit up a white mucus. no swelling in legs or feet but my abdomen is very hard but getting large. i think fat would be a little softer. i am just getting frustrated i use a inhaler from my wife to help with wheezing but not much relief.

Dear Chronic Cougher: Dr. Mark Lupo's response is wrong....it could be your thyroid. I have recently been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and I too have a reoccuring tickle in my throat that leads to unbelievable coughing that in most times leads to an amazing amount of spit and white mucus that I'm throwing up....while at work it's the worst, especially since I'm several yards from the restroom. When I feel the tickle, I run because I know what's about to go down.

Then about a couple of days ago, I had that tickle cough, but like a coughing attack episode. And It would be extreme thick clear sticky mucus, to the point of throwing up. The sore throat is on and off, but I think the slight pain in throat is from hacking up, so its inflamed, and so forth.

I have been getting over a recent bout of bronchitis where I was prescribed Augmentin (I am on Day 6) and Prednisone short burst (finished 2 days ago) I am still coughing quite bad but the fever has broke... but as of yesterday the phlegm/mucus I am coughing up tastes extremely salty. I have not been using any type of saline spray, or gargling with salt water, so I know this is not the reason. Is it the antibiotics causing this? Or is there another reason?

Overall, though everything I have done so far has seemed to help a little, I am still coughing up green mucus and seem to be short of breath sometimes. Can you please help me figure out what is wrong with me?

That's good, it seems to be clearing up. It can takes ages for the mucus to clear up. You will probably find it is much worse in the mornings due to post nasal drip. Keep up with your warm drinks and leave off milk and cheese until you are better as these encourage mucus production. It is always bad this time of the year with all sorts of bugs about. Best wishes.

It started with a tickling throat and then developed, so I find it very hard to swallow because it really hurts, and also have trouble talking. Yesterday I started coughing and it has gotten really bad, to the point where I am coughing until I'm gagging. However, the unusual thing is it only seriously affects me in the mornings and at night. During the day it is bearable. Please help!!

7 yr old female pug just started this weird honking coughing that really has me concerned. It's like she has something caught in her throat but she only coughs up a little clear white mucus. Any help would be appreciated.

If your immune system is fighting off other viruses can it cause hiv to show up late on a test? The reason I ask i have a bad wisdom tooth it has been bad for about 2 years. Could it over work my immune system to the point that it will not produce enough antibody's and cause the hiv virus to show up late? I know you guys said for chemo, iv users, or drug that suppress the immune system. I just don't want to be one that show up late.

She was on antibiotics and was doing good for the last week now but yesterday she started coughing again and has been having about 4-5 watery stools a day. They started greenish yellow and mucousy and now they are milky white/light tan. Also, im not sure if its because shes cold or not but i've noticed this morning that her lips will turn blue, and then go back to pink a minute later,. She seems to be breathing fine, and is not coughing when it happens but im worried.

Anyways, about 6 yrs ago I started having labored breathing spells, but would most of the time cough up a white stringy pizza cheese looking sputum. it happened a couple of times a year and was minimal. However, since the straw spreading it has been quite frequent. I go to a pulmanoligist twice a year for maintenance meds and pft. He put me on some new meds and started having chest pains went to the ER done all tests except heart cath.

Does coughing make the herniation of the cerebellar tonsils worse? I am have nasal congestion and the drainage is causing me to cough. It is causing me tremendous pain and I feel as if my head is about to burst. I am taking meds and cough drops in order to prevent spells however, they persist. Will this worsen the chiari symptoms and herniation? Thank you for any resoonses I am new to this diagnosis and forum.

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