Comments on: Coughing Up Excessive Phlegm (Mucus, Sputum) from the Throat

By: Julie Ann

Julie Ann — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:36:00 +0000

Hi my name is Julie Ann and I’m writing with some serious concerns and questions. I have a surgery in May 2017 because I had a large ulcer. While in surgery my doctor was to revise my gastric bypass I have 8 years ago. While in surgery my stomachs was so bad that they had to remove it and create a stomach pouch. So they took my esophagus and directly attached it to the small intestine. Two days after the original surgery they found a tear so I was rushed back in for them to repair. Two days after that they find a leak during my swallow test. By the time it was all said and done they had to open my incision because I developed a internal infection. So I now Ave an open wound that’s 9 inches long and 6 inches wide. I ended up so sick that my lungs and kidneys were shutting down. I also was going sepsis. They decided to put me into an induced coma. I was in Ho hospital for over a month. Once they got me out of the coma I immediately had this very thick slimy frothy saliva / mucus. I’ve tried everything to make it go away. It’s so bad that I can’t hold anything down (food or water). I’m constantly gagging and I can’t leave my home because of the severity of the situation. Been to the doctor and they did Endoscopy and I had cat scan and chest x-Ray and they still can’t tell me why this is can’t happening. I’m desperately seeking some professional advice!!!! Please!!!!!! Thank You for your time..

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 03:50:00 +0000

Hi there, I’m having trouble with a cold flu at the moment. lower right abdominal pain only when coughing, struggling to bring phlem up, straining to cough gagging on my own cough sometimes & also really hard to breathe…what’s should I do in terms of relief, medication and your view on symptoms.

By: HealthHype

HealthHype — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:38:00 +0000

In reply to Darker Dey. Hi Darker. We cannot say for sure whether this problem is serious. It could be and you should have it assessed by a medical professional. Even if you have quit smoking you can still develop related conditions like COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). This may explain your current symptoms. Other serious conditions include TB and even lung cancer. So as you can see there are too many possible causes for these symptoms and you will need further diagnostic investigations like a chest x-ray.

By: Darker Dey

Darker Dey — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:06:00 +0000

i cough at night and my mucus is clear. the whole coughing occurs occasionally but while at night it is more frequent then before. i dont have wheezing problem and neither i am lossing weight earlier i use to smoke but i stop it completely. this problem occured when i used to take ciggrette and all that stuff too frequently.. its been nearly 2 months that this problem occured. so is there any serious problem.

By: stephanie Feltham

stephanie Feltham — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:45:00 +0000

Hiya there I’m Stephanie and since September last year I’ve had tonsillitis, an infection in my big toe, a sickness bug and had 4 colds ( including the one I’ve currently got! But this time I’m finding my breathing is all over the place, I’m having heart palpitations and pains in my stomach and abdomen as well as chest! I’m coughing up a creamy yellowish phlegm as well as having a feeling like either snot or phlegm is hanging down in my throat and the other night when I went to blow my nose and a big blop of jelly like stuff came out my nose! Do I have to be concerned about this and about the fact that I had so many illnesses in such a short period of time? Plus also I’m getting dry skin patches/blocthes all over my arms and legs? Can you please help me out? Stephanie.

By: sophie

sophie — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:45:00 +0000

Hi there, i really need advice!
For about a year now i have had thick clear mucus in my throat that i would have to expell constantly. It would come out when i tighten my throat muscles or even sometimes when im just talking etc. Its getting really frustrating but my dr has just said it could be caused by dehydration but no matter how much i drink it doesnt go away

By: Somali-turk

Somali-turk — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 07:39:00 +0000

In reply to Jan Modric.

hey,i have been smoking for 10 years and last week quit cold turkey,i am in bed now,spitting out mucus/phlegm from
my lungs into my throat,the mucus just comes to my throat and i expel it,it is not painful but allowing when you have
to do it every 30 seconds,i am keeping water near which is helping,doc tells me cilia is regrowing and my body
is expelling toxins from my lungs,no headache,no body pain,nothing just spitting mucus continuosly.

By: HealthHype

HealthHype — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:46:00 +0000

In reply to Aaron Jones. Hi Aaron. You mother should be consulting with a geriatrician (geriatric physician) who can liaise with the other specialists she had seen to find a cause for her current problem. Firstly, the problem may not be the thickness (viscosity) of the saliva but rather than her swallow and gag reflexes are impaired. This can happen with age or a stroke (if she had one in the past). Without swallowing saliva in the mouth it can accumulate to cause choking. Secondly it has to be ascertained whether the thick secretion you are seeing is really saliva or not. Mucus from the nose and sinuses for example can drain into the throat. We cannot say for sure so it is best that her case is managed by a geriatric physician in the long term.

By: Aaron Jones

Aaron Jones — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:54:00 +0000

My name is Aaron and I am writing on behalf of my
mother Edna Jones. My mother will be turning 91 next month and I have been
taking care of her for the last twenty years, for the past three years or so
she has had a swallowing problem along with very thick saliva that has been relentless.
First they told us there was nothing that they could do for her saliva problem.
Than we had an appointment with her Neurologist he said that there were a few
things that we could do. He then prescribed her an antidepressant for the side
effect of dry mouth. We used that for a while with no effect on her at all.
Then he recommended to her a chemotherapist to see if there was anything that
he could do he said that he could do nothing.
She was getting speech therapy for her swallowing and that did help
somewhat, her Speech Therapist said that she might benefit from Botox
injections and knew of an ENT that did it. We went to see him and he did one
side first then the other side, again with no effect at all. He also prescribed
her something he gives people to dry them up before surgery and that did
nothing. From there we went to see a Radiologist and he said that they only do
it for ALS patients, and said that he didn’t see any reason it would not work
on her. I thought that would finally set her free from her thick saliva and
that she could get some relief. We did one side and waited six weeks to see if
that would be enough, it was not it had no effect. Then we did the other side
she had some relief for about a week and then it started up again. Then we went
to an allergist to see if she was allergic to anything and found she was
allergic to dust mites.

All this time no one could tell us what the thick saliva was and what caused it, I have
to save her life at least three to four and sometime more times a day with a
suction machine because it is choking her. She is a very strong woman and I
believe if she could get rid of the thick saliva she would be doing a lot
better. On the very rare night we get a good night sleep you can see the
difference in her. Another side effect from the saliva is she has to sleep with
her head down which causes her back to hump.

Some of the other medical problems that she has had were a stroke in 1994, which she
recovered 95 percent from and she also has a G-Tube. Also she has on her tongue
has a very shiny coat. We do exercises everyday and she walks with a lot of
assistants from me. And we do voice exercises as well.

I refuse to believe that there is nothing that can be done for her, and I will not let her
die from very thick saliva. It robs her from sleep; she will not speak because
when she opens her mouth the spit runs out. And it has also taken its toll on
me as well.

Please,
please help me find a solution for her problem. With all this modern medicine
there has to be something else that can be done. Or some other reason she has
the very thick saliva.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Thanks you, Aaron

By: Kim davies

Kim davies — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:40:00 +0000

Hi, I’m a 47 year old asthmatic (been asthmatic for 46 years), I saw the nurse practitioner at my surgery when I was having trouble coughing because of pain in chest/throat and trouble breathing, when I was able to cough I was coughing up thick green/yellow phlegm. On examination she said my chest was clear and green/yellow phlegm is not always an infection. This doesn’t sound right to me, as I said I’ve been an asthmatic for many years and know when I’m getting a chest infection. After 5 days on antibiotics I feel no better. Last winter I had a lung infection followed by a chest infection which took 4 courses of antibiotics to clear. I have an appointment with my regular GP next week to hopefully get some better advice.