Anyone know of a good way to break up mucus?!
Question: I've been sick for like 5 days now with an upper respiratory infection and an ear infection and today i just can't even take it. there's been mucus draining in the back of my throat since saturday and now it's so bad i feel like my lungs are drowning in it. i have no way of getting back to the doctor's or to a drugstore but are there any foods that will help break up the mucus so maybe i can breathe?
Answers: I've been sick for like 5 days now with an upper respiratory infection and an ear infection and today i just can't even take it. there's been mucus draining in the back of my throat since saturday and now it's so bad i feel like my lungs are drowning in it. i have no way of getting back to the doctor's or to a drugstore but are there any foods that will help break up the mucus so maybe i can breathe?
Drink warm tea with lemon. The lemon will help break up the mucus. Secondly, gargle with warm salt water several times a day, to help keep your throat from getting sore from the mucus draining down it.
When I get sick like that, I take a lot of deep breaths. It kind of hurts, but it's going to make you cough, and then when you cough, it's going to come out. That's one way.
Another thing that I do is drink a lot of hot tea, which makes it easier to move/less sticky. It usually goes into my stomach but if you eat bread or crackers and such things, that soaks it up, and it leaves your system with the bread or crackers.
warm salt water.
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