What does this sound like???!
Question: Yeaterday I had a sore throat and I thought it would go away today but it didn't. I have been living on ice cubes, cough drops and pickles to make my throat feel better, and today I keep coughing up mucus ( yellow) do you think what I think it is.... Acute Bronchitis i need your advice plzzzz me mom is calling my Doc. office to find out the after hours #.
Answers: Yeaterday I had a sore throat and I thought it would go away today but it didn't. I have been living on ice cubes, cough drops and pickles to make my throat feel better, and today I keep coughing up mucus ( yellow) do you think what I think it is.... Acute Bronchitis i need your advice plzzzz me mom is calling my Doc. office to find out the after hours #.
Until you get relief, lay off the ice cubes and pickles. hot (not burning hot, but not lukewarm) tea, with lemon juice (real squeezed-from-the-lemon juice) and enough honey to be sickeningly sweet. The first cup or two will make your throat feel raw, but after that it'll feel a lot better. (Hot, sweet, acidic infusions have been used for sore throats as far back as we have written records, because they work.)
Its good your mom is calling the doc cuz it sure sounds like you need to be checked out
what ever you do, don't eat ice cubes or anything cold, because they make your throat worse. pickles and ice cubes will make you feel better temporary but they are not good if you have infection (acid in pickles make your infection worse). what you can do temporary, gurgle some warm salt water like 4 times a day and that will kill the bacteria causing the infection, until you can see a doctor. when I get a cough I just gurgle salt water and I don't take any anti biotic or medicine. I get better the next thing in the morning. and get rest don't sleep too late don't talk too much. hope you'll get well soon!
Yes, in the later stages of acute bronchitis you will cough up yellow sputum (an immune complex of antibodies and antigens ... most likely pneumococcal bacterium). This will resolve itself in a week or two and can be hastened by antibiotics which would require a prescription from your doctor. As long as the symptoms don't get much worse, such as the infection goes down into your lungs you may be OK without medication, but definitely see a doctor if you have fever or worsening symptoms. Do not smoke.
Sorry to say, but it is Bruncitus. I know this because I have the same symptoms. It sucks doesn't it. When you cough and the mucus comes up, try not to swallow it, spit it out. Try to get rid of as much mucus out of your system as possible, the mucus is in your lungs.
if its yellow mucus it sounds lke you got a chest infecton. off to the doctor you go