What Can You Tell from Phlegm Color?

Normal puppets have a small amount of white or off-white sticky sputum, and yellow purulent sputum, white foamy sputum, red sputum, and rusty sputum are common in pathological conditions.

Sputum color

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Normal puppets have a small amount of white or off-white sticky sputum, and yellow purulent sputum, white foamy sputum, red sputum, and rusty sputum are common in pathological conditions.

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Sputum color

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sputum

Colorless and transparent.

(1) Yellow or pale yellow: purulent infection of the lungs (purulent sputum). (2) Yellow-green: jaundice, dispersal period of lobar pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of the lungs, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, lung abscess, progressive tuberculosis, bronchitis, caseous pneumonia. (3) Rust color: lobar pneumonia, pulmonary infarction. (4) Chocolate color: Amoebic liver abscess passes through the diaphragm and communicates with the lung, and paragonimiasis (pulmonary fluke disease). (5) Brown: chronic passive lung congestion due to heart disease. (6) Gray or black: Pneumoconiosis (charcoal, coal, iron, stone powder, asbestos powder, etc.). (7) Rotten peach-like: necrosis of lung tissue, paragonimiasis of the lungs (lung fluke disease). (8) Blood stains, blood clots, or mixed blood and sputum in sputum, bright red or light red: tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, lung cancer, pulmonary paragonimiasis (lung fluke disease), pneumonic plague, pneumonia, pulmonary infarction, lung abscess, lung Hemorrhagic leptospirosis, respiratory trauma and ulcers, acute pulmonary edema (pink foam), bleeding disorders, etc.

(1) It is very important for patients to take qualified sputum samples during sputum examination. That is, rinse the mouth several times with water, and then cough up the sputum deep in the trachea. Generally, it is advisable to sputum 1-2 in the morning after a deep cough.

(2) If the sputum sample is kept within 24 hours, avoid mixing with saliva, nasopharyngeal secretion, food, mouthwash, etc. If necessary, phenol can be added to the sample bottle for preservation.

Wind-heating, Lung-drying, Lung-drying, Lung-phlegm

Spit foam, blood in sputum, phlegm on the phlegm, clear cough, weak cough, sputum, shortness of breath, sputum accumulation, coughing of chocolate-colored sputum, coughing of brown sputum plugs, sticky or purulent odor, sputum White sticky jelly

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