My 9 year old son is spitting mucus with blood in the morning. there is no coughing, or fever, and no one in the house smokes. thank you?

See doctor: You need to take him to see a doctor today. Spitting mucus with blood in a 9 year old is not normal. Please have him seen by his doctor as soon as possible.

No worry: the blood is not from anything serioud most likely from coughing and irritating the throat your son must be having upper respiratery infection or bronchitis you can use OTC medicine to ease up the cough and specially decongestant because most of the cough in this age from posterier nasal drainage no improvment take him to a local doctor

Spitting blood: Does he have allergies? reflux? Both can irritate the nose, sinuses and lead to AM blood spitting. Would try vaseline at tip of nares at night before bed to moisturize., Warm shower for same reason at night Consider children Zyrtec (cetirizine) once a day for a week. May also need PPD.Call your doctor and discuss.

Other symptoms?: Is he having nasal congestion, sneezing as well? At this age is very common to have nasal irritation and capillary fragility which can cause some blood in nose that he could spit in the mornings due to the position of his head while sleeping. Very common with the cold weather. However, if he is having cough and symptoms happen during the rest of the day he needs to see his doctor for formal exam.

Several thoughts: Spitting up mucus with blood suggests an acute sinusitis as the cause. Other sources of bloody saliva, not necessarily with mucus, include nosebleed, bleeding gums, tumors in the nasopharyngeal area and bleeding from the stomach or esophagus. Lack of cough or fever makes sinusitis somewhat less likely. However if there is recent nasal congestion or runny nose this would suggest sinusitis.