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Thick Yellow Sputum Tastes Bad

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Dr. Harish Naik MD

Very sore throat , cough with yellow sputum , low grade fever x4 days. Rhinitis as well. Viral or bacterial? Also have totally plugged nose ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Harish Naik ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.  VENKAT SIVAYOGI MD

wife has constant cough for 3 day now has lost voice no fever no body aches spits up thick yellowish flem also developed pink eye this morning ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. VENKAT SIVAYOGI ( Internal Medicine Specialist)
Dr. Ivo Ditah MD

I have an upper respiratory problem. Cough sore throats sporadic fever/chills . Painful to cough in the chest green brown and yellow sputum . Is this bacterial infection that antibiotics would help ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Ivo Ditah ( Internal Medicine Specialist)
Dr.   Bonnie Berger-Durnbaugh MD

I have had a cold for more than to weeks but now I have a noisy cough which tastes metallic when I cough up yellow sputum--is this metallic taste meaningful? Does this sound like pneumonia? ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Bonnie Berger-Durnbaugh ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Kampana MD

I am having cold since last Wednesday and getting thick yellow sputum now Now getting lots of coughing as well. I took zocef cv 250 one tablet daily for 3 days earlier. Please suggest appropriate ... View answer

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Dr. Dharmendra V. Dubey MD

I bring out small amount of yellow sputum only after my half an hour afternoon nap. Thereafter there is no such problem any time of the day or night. I do not have cold or cough. Why do the yellow ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Dharmendra V. Dubey ( Pulmonologist)
Dr.   Parth Goswami MD

Not medically pressing but what causes the yellow colour and sulfur flavor of most sputum in result of respiratory infection? Is it the white blood cells, other cells or different bodily chemicals ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Parth Goswami ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Vidya S MD

Is a productive cough with thick dark yellow or grey sputum in keeping w the flu? Or would it be a sign of bacterial infection. Other symptoms (headaches, body aches, fatigue, fever up to 38.7, chills ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Vidya S ( Pulmonologist)
Dr.  Ralph Chambers MD

[i m suffuring from cinstipacy as a chronic,especially feel uneasy on my right abdomin,now it is spreading upper side and rightside,and siffuring from cough in dark yellow color,suffuring congestion on right nose,... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Ralph Chambers ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Vasudha Jayant Athavale MD

[I have been coughing for at least three months now. My cough is usually productive with clear, yellow, and gray mucus. I am 34 weeks pregnant so when I went to urgent care last month, no xray was done, but I was told I... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Vasudha Jayant Athavale ( General & Family Physician)