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Cough, yellow or green sputum
Cough, yellow or green sputum
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 18-year old asked:
I have a cold/flu, but when I cough, it tastes metallic and my sputum is yellow/green.. Is this bad? Could it be from smoking?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Really bad cold with yellow and green mucus for two weeks. Symptoms improved but Cough still lingering a month later with clear sputum. Is this normal?
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A member asked:
Chesty cough yellow sputum 3 weeks?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Bad cough and producing yellow sputum. Notice wheezing from my chest when I laugh or lie down. Cough worse when laying down. What should I take?
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A 69-year old female asked:
Yesterday sinus cold and cough hit me hard. Yellow sputum, no fever, negative Covid test. what is best over counter med for me?
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A 38-year old female asked:
Two weeks i had post nasal drip all day. Then felt dizzy and weak tired chest hurt i developed cough w yellow sputum still feel tired out of breath?
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A 21-year old male asked:
What should I take as I am having sore throat, yellow greenish sputum, cough, flu, yellow greenish mucus, lost of voice for 3 to 4 days?
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A 31-year old asked:
Start with sore throat and then chest congestion, itching throat, cough with sputum, yellow thick. Is that bronchitis?
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A 22-year old male asked:
For over a month, have had weight loss, shortness of breath, Fingernail Clubbing, and cough with yellow/white sputum and occasional red streaks. Chest X-Ray and Noncontrast Hi-Res Chest CT both came out negative. Scared. Not sure what's even going on?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Dry cough now with yellow sputum. Nausea on and off, feeling warm all over, no fever. Jittery, loss of appetite. Running nose at times & sweaty palms
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A 32-year old male asked:
Hello, I h'been diagnosed with Astma in 2021. However keep coughing yellow-green small sputum last 2 weeks. Since last three days, am coughing once a day a fresh blood in saliva but separated from phlegm (not in it) .Yesterday CXR clear, CRP 1.5 MG/L?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Symptoms started 8 days ago. Sore throat, on/off. No fever. Coughing up yellow-green phlegm esp. In the mornings. Recently, blood in sputum. See doc?
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A 45-year old asked:
Coughing up brown & yellow mucus/sputum for 2 years. It happens on and off. What is going on?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Do i need to go back to dr? Last week i finished z-pak for pneumonia. It worked! but now, a week later, I have mild coughing with white-yellow sputum
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A 50-year old female asked:
Got flu shot 3 days ago & have been sick since; temp.101, headache, chest pain, congestion, tightness & now started coughing & expelling some yellow sputum. Is this normal? Should I be worried? I feel absolutely awful.
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A 55-year old male asked:
Could coughing up yellow sputum with a tiny bit of blood that goes away entirely after, be a sign of lung cancer?
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A 40-year old asked:
Sore throat and severe coughing of yellow sputum. What OTC is good for this?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Fever, chills. 2 weeks of dry violent coughing fits. Now short of breath esp on exertion or lying down, yellow sputum, wheezing. Can't talk only whisper for 8 days. & sinus infection pain, mild fever. ?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Is green sputum,while I am fighting cold,a sample 4having course of antibiotic?its th 7th day and still.Only trebon.37.3c max temp,cough,no pain chest
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A 43-year old female asked:
I was diagnosed with the flu 12 days ago.Given antibiotics due to yellow/green sputum.Cough remains, but no color to sputum.How long should cough last?
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A 22-year old male asked:
22M,every morning , a thick green sputum ,a little cough and it happens whole day, sometimes running nose ,i tired from this all , what to do ?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Can I take my salbutamol rescue inhaler more then every 4 hrs? Nasty cough, wheezing and green olive colored sputum for just under 3 days
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A female asked:
I have had a hoarse cough for 6 days and a very milky green sputum. Along with congestion. Step throat test negative on Friday. What do you suggest?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Coughing for 1 month, not resolved by meds. Thick yellowish green sputum sometimes got brown spot. No fever no pain only the cough. Throat felt itchy?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Severe cough with thick green sputum,pain on swallowing and throat felt itchy. awaken at night due to uncontrollable cough. No fever, wht shd i Do?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Cough for about 3 years. Different coloured phlegm...Green, yellow, clear, thick, and bloody?
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A 25-year old female asked:
I have dry whoping cough no green or yellow mucus for more than 10 days medicine is not helping how to cure what is it please help me thanks?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Started uni, think I got cold, I've got EXTREMELY bad cough, my mucus was green then turned yellow, now turning clearish again, had for 2 weeks, help?
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A female asked:
Very bad cough for 2 weeks and only getting worse. coughing up thick yellow mucus and this morning a thin green piece of flesh. Whats wrong?
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A 21-year old female asked:
I have been sick for over a month i cough up these huge green and yellow mucus sometimes seen really hard with blood in them and a constant sweet tast?
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