Other names: expectoration of sputum, coughing, phlegm, mucus spewing
Coughing up phlegm (ie. Sputum), different types and colors (white, gray, purulent, yellowish or greenish or reddish bloody) is a symptom of diseases most of the lower airways (bronchi and lungs).It is a wet (productive) cough that can “encourage” called. Mucolytics and expectorants – medicines dissolving the viscous mucus and thereby facilitating its expectoration, which is actually desirable and defense mechanism of the organism.
More about coughing up phlegm found in moist cough symptom.
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