I have a sister that has been hacking up green mucus for about a year now and it hasn't gone away. Do any of you know what cause this and how she can stop!
I have a sister that has been hacking up green mucus for about a year now and it hasn't gone away. Do any of you know what cause this and how she can stop!
Uh... I would see a doctor, ASAP.
A YEAR!!!! Needs to see a doctor i agree ^^^^.
Pamela
Doctor, Doctor........
It could be bronchitis, pneumonia, or tuberculosis. For the sake of others also, she needs to be treated.
I'd ask the folks over on http://www.livejournal.com/community/homeopathy/
They seem to know what they're doing.
I'd go for the natural route before I'd do anything mainstream. Mainstream just masks the symptoms, naturalheals them.
Best of luck!
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Any fever with it?
In general green = bacterial infection which will need antibiotics to cleat it up.





Yeah.Originally Posted by Sirona
I automatically thought infection too.
She should really go see a doctor.
Because there ain't no tits on the radio
yeah, green usually means infection. I have a lot of mucus but it's not green unless I'm sick. I just have allergy/sinus problems.
My daughter has asthma & usually green mucus is an indication of pneumonia
Your sister really does need to see a doctor to have this checked out.
Good luck -keep us posted.
For my day job I work in an ER and I can tell you prolonged periods of green mucus coming up is bad news, is she a smoker? If so, have her stop for a few days and see if that helps at all but I hate to say this.... ER nurses everywhere will shoot me for it... If she doesn't have insurance take her to the emergency room, they'll treat her and give her medicine, they'll prob. also do a chest x-ray to rule out any long term damage..... Good Luck.



A more overlooked diagnosis. More obscure but facing a subset of the 33,000,000 americans who have sinus infections each year.
Allergic Fungal Sinusitis. You can have a combination of a bacterial and fungal infection.
The antibiotics have limited or no effect against fungas.
I'm about at the end of my summer cold right now, which is not a summer cold at all.
Basically have to spray your sinus cavaties with ampotericin B which is changed form into
a diluted liquid. Also only available by prescription. Ampothercin B is an infectable
anti fungal for really serious blood fungal infections. (Think tropical jungle). It is a dangerous drug. However... guess what, if used as a topical spray, its not very dangerous.
Most ENT specialists have no idea about the fungal sinuisitis and don't know how to cure it.
Even though not that expensive, Ampothercin B must be processed into a liquid and you
can't buy it at your corner Eckhard or Walgreens.
The true believers who discovered this are the doctors at the Mayo clinic Rochester Minnesota. They also have the Mayo pharmacy which makes the drug and ships it.
The drug must be kept from long exposure to light and refrigerated. It has about
a one and one half month shelf life, but only seven days once you open the bottle
and using it.
Allergeries to mold and therefore fungal infections are a growing problem in the U.S.
(My opinion).



Niceguy brings up a good point, and that is that long term infection is commonly due to chronic sinusitis. Fungal causes of sinusitis are actually not the main reason for chronic sinusitis.... bacteria are the most common causes.
Anyways, your sister should go see a primary care physician who can listen to her lungs, look at her throat, x-ray her lungs and sinuses. Actually, the color of mucus is not all that specific in differentiating a viral vs. bacterial infection. But infected sinuses are generally bacterial in nature. The cure is a 3 week course of antibiotics.





See a doctor now really .



Constant hammering of your sinus cavaties with anti biotics that do not cure the problem means you have a mold (fungal) based infection of the sinus cavaties.
Most american ENT doctors are about ten years behind in treatment of the mold based
infection of the sinus cavaties. They literally don't know what to do so they don't think
of mold in the sinus cavaties as an infection agent.
Adrenaline is right that the vast majority of these are bacterial. An increasing amount
are fungal based.
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