Other names: productive cough, cough with expectoration, cough with expectoration, cough with sputum
Coughing is a physiological protective mechanism for the removal of foreign material from the respiratory tract, thereby safeguarding their patency. We distinguish between dry cough (irritant) cough and wet (or if productive).
Wet cough is cough with expectoration of mucus present, which may differ in consistency and color(white, gray, purulent yellowish or greenish, or reddish with blood). If you cough up mucus so suspiciously colored, rather go to the doctor, so you put on antibiotics or expectorated the submitting content to the lab to identify the source of the disease and then treat accordingly modified.
This cough often accompanies chronic bronchitis, as well as other disease processes the respiratory tract such as pneumonia, bronchiectasis (widening of the bronchi on the basis of congenital abnormalities or diseases of the bronchi) and pleuritis (pleurisy).
Purulent sputum with blood is a symptom of tuberculosis. Mucus may also be the origin of the nose (rhinitis at the rear), which flows into the nasopharynx and then irritates the lining of the expectoration. Other times it may be wet cough disappearing consequence of inflammation, which started with a dry cough and who took treatment.
For bacterial infections, your doctor may prescribe antibiotics for viral cough can only absorb so. Mucolytics – medication for dissolving (liquefaction) mucus easier for its elimination from the respiratory tract (ambroxol, bromhexine) – and adhere to the sleep mode.
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