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Doctors have told me i have asthma but aren't certain i use inhalers and i still keep on coughing up phlegm how can i get rid my phlegm?
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Phlegm: Try using a cough medicine that contains a mucolytic such as ammonium chloride or sski, --saturated solution of potassium iodide.
Answered 10/4/2016
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