Sometimes I cough up a little bit of hard stuff. It is always a yellow/green colour and it stinks!?

Question

My Mum calls them 'bad breath cubes'! They seem to be stuck in your throat before you actually cough them up? What the hell is it?

It's not phlegm and it doesn't happen all the time. Just sometimes.

Answer 1

If you are a whale, then it is called Amber. Very pungent smell, and a great base for perfumes! Sells for $500 an ounce!

If you are a people, it is phlem, and indicates a bronchial infection, possibly a Streptococcal , or a Staphococcal infection... get to a doctor...

Largely, it is transferred from the anterior nares to the nasal mucosa when you pick your nose. STOP! Wash hands with soap, while singing Happy Birthday, twice through the first verse, for just the soap and water phase!

More here:

Staphylococcal and streptococcal infections
Staphylococcal infections

* More than 30 staphylococcal species exist
* All are part of normal skin and mucous membrane flora
* They are either coagulase-positive or negative
* The most important coagulase-positive species is Staph. aureus

Staph aureus

* 30% adults carry Staph. aureus in their anterior nares
* Carriers transfer the organism to skin allowing a portal of entry
* The organism has several putative determinant of pathogenicity including:
o Cell wall constituents
o Cell surface proteins
o Toxins (e.g. haemolysins and leukocidins)
o Enzymes (e.g. coagulase, protease, hyaluronidase)
* The organism is both aerobic and anaerobic on blood agar
* Microscopically it is gram-positive
* Forms clusters on solid media
* There is increasing spread of clones resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics (e.g. MRSA)
* Clinically it produces skin and soft tissue infections including

Answer 2

If whatyou are coughing up is hard and it is yellow or green then you need to see a doctor an have your throat examined. It sounds llike you have somethn going on in your throat. When mucous is green or yellow and you have bad breathe along with it...it can mean that you have some form of infection. Go and see your doctor to get it cleared up.

Answer 3

I am a medicine student and have a test in one of my books that will be able to help me find a remedy so u can get rid of that cough. I always recomend natural remedies they work a lot better than regular medicine. I will need a little more detailed information about your cough.
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Answer 4

I have heard about this. My daughter used to cough up hard stuff all the time, and we couldn't figure out what it was. Then I read something about a year ago about how people who have bad tonsils do this. I realized that she quit complaining about coughing up that stuff after she had her tonsils out a few years back, so this could be what your problem is. The pus from infections gets hardened and then you cough them out. Dunno what the medical term is called, but thats what was happening to her!

Answer 5

don't trust your health to someone who is not a professional. see a doctor or at least search a medical website for further information. there are cheap or free clinics around.

Answer 6

they're "thraot stones" or "crypts." that's a build-up of all kinds of stuff: foodstuff debris, bacteria, mucus, and so on. and that they variety interior the folds of your tonsils. they're undesirable. I fairly have them myself and that i'm able to't stand them.

Answer 7

I call it phlem.

Answer 8

you do know smokin is not healthy at all right...