I am 7 months pregnant and currently having some viral infections like sore throat and flu.?

Question

Is it normal if my phlegm is green in color and sometimes got a little blood stain?

Answer 1

Green phlem indicates a respiratory infection and the blood tinged phlem is probably a result of irratation in the throat from coughing, etc.

You need to talk to your OB. Mucinex D is safe for the congestion (both nasal and respiratory) and you'll probably be prescribed an antibiotic like Zithromax. ****Always ask your doctor or nurse if your doctor will allow you to take any over the counter medications. Just because it's safe doesn't mean that your particular OB will like it...***

I recently got out of the hospital (12 weeks pregnant) for a severe case of asthma / bronchitis. Don't wait until your cold/flu is out of hand.

P.S. Just because you are pregnant, doesn't mean you have to suffer miserably from the common cold or flu! There is relief out there ---you just need to ask.

Answer 2

While blood in phlegm is, indeed, called hemoptysis and can be a sign of some very serious conditions, you could be having blood from an irritated throat (from coughing). (It has happened to me before.) The only way you can know for sure, though, is to go to the doctor, and, because of the possibility of a serious condition - please do so (see your doctor!). You really need to anyway, if you have green phlegm, because that mean infection. Usually, clear/whitish/yellow is okay, but green/dark means you may need an antibiotic or other treatment. So, don't freak out, just get yourself to your doc because even a condition like pneumonia or other can be serious and something you want to take care of before it affects your baby. Good luck and good health to you.

Answer 3

Yes, but if it goes on for more than a few days, they'll want to see you. Some doctors make you wait a week, but hopefully not while you're pregnant.
Always call your OBGYN if you're worried!! Hopefully, being pregnant, they'll be more proactive about treating a possible infection. I had an infection during pregnancy, and the baby ended up with it, and was born early. Not a good thing...be proactive with your doctor!

Answer 4

Go to the doctor. Blood in a cough is always bad. Green flem and blood combined can be a symptom of lungcancer. Either way you view it, you need to have it checked out.

Answer 5

It sounds like you might have something like a sinus infection. Probably no reason for concern, but you can't be too careful when you're pregnant, not to mention that you won't be able to take many drugs that you would normally take if you have a cold or something. Talk to your doctor for the best ways to get relief. And I hope you feel better soon!

Answer 6

No that is not normal... you def. need to go to the doctor... green sputum is a sign of infection..

Answer 7

See your Doctor tomorrow or call him up for advice.

Answer 8

it's probably just the common flu or something. there are a lot of questions asked like this one. if a woman is sick when she's pregnant, she thinks theres something wrong with her. don't worry, you'll be fine : )

Answer 9

becareful

Answer 10

You have an acute lung infection. Due to this you are having sore throat and haemoptysis. Spitting of blood while coughing is called haemoptysis. This is primarily caused by such diseases as tuberculosis and cancer of the lungs. In Ayurveda it is included in the group of urdhvanga rakta pitta. The patient spits blood while coughing. Sometimes blood is accompanied with mucus.
You should go for a mucus test which will reveal if there is anything serious at all. It is not necessary though to have TB or cancer. Irritation of the air passages when expectoration also causes coughing of blood.
There are some good home remedies for both sorethroat and cough.
HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH
* Prepare a mixture by adding ½ teaspoon honey with ½ teaspoon lemon juice. Take this every 12 hours. Honey relieves the itchiness by moisturizing the throat passage
* Take 0.5 pounds (250 gms) of sweet apples daily for a week to cure cough.
* Soak almonds overnight and remove their skin. Make a paste of the soaked almonds with little butter and sugar. This is very useful for dry cough.
* Mix 8 - 10 tablespoons of coconut milk with 1 tablespoon poppy seeds and 1 tablespoon of pure honey. Take this every night before going to bed.
* Prepare a mixture by adding a teaspoonful of honey with a few drops of brandy. It helps to relieve cough.
* Mix equal parts of limejuice and honey.
* Combine a cup of grape juice and a teaspoon of honey. Mix well to prepare an effective remedy for coughing.
* Mix 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey. Keep it aside for 3 to 4 hours before drinking.
* Apply hot mustard pack on the chest. This brings down fever, eliminates toxins and speeds in recovery. If needed, repeat every other day for a week.
* Deep breathe in front of an open window. This has multiple benefits. Exhaling vigorously rids the body of waste gases and deep inhalation saturates the lungs with oxygen.
* Chop an onion finely, put it with a tablespoon of clear honey in a screw-top jar and leave overnight. In the morning, drinking a teaspoonful of the juice produced will give relief to cough.
* Garlic-and-onion chicken soup is also an effective remedy for cough .
* Drink hot tea with lemon and raspberry jam, drink as much as possible.
* Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime for cough relief.
* Slice 2 snow pears into small pieces. Add 3 bowls of water and boil until the water has reduced to 2 bowls. Strain and discard the pears, and add 30 grams of rice to the liquid. Boil again until rice is cooked. Drink the soup.
* Peel 50 grams fresh ginger and cut into small slices. Boil the slices with 100 grams maltose in 2 glasses water for 30 minutes. Drink it hot, twice a day, in one day.
* Boil 20 red dates with 60 grams maltose in enough water. Eat once a day.
* Prepare a mixture of 5 fresh-pitted olives and rock sugar; steam them for half an hour. Eat the olives to help with chronic coughs.
* Steam 2 unpeeled tangerines with 30 grams rock sugar to relieve coughs with a yellowish mucous discharge. Eat the tangerines at bedtime.
* In one cup of warm milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder (Haldi) and drink twice a day.
* In one cup of warm milk, add 2 – 3 strands of saffron (kesar) and drink twice a day.
* Mix half a teaspoon of tulsi juice with half a teaspoon with ginger juice. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take the above mixture 2-3 times a day till symptoms subside.
* Take 1 cup of water and add 4-5 leaves of tulsi; a small piece of ginger (adrak) and 1 teaspoon of jaggery. Boil this mixture over slow heat till the quantity becomes half a cup. Drink this at least 2 times in a day.

HOME REMEDIES FOR SORE THROAT

* Garlic is the most important remedy for sore throat. Chew some garlic pieces.
* Add lemon juice (from one lemon) some honey, to a glass of hot water. Drink this. It will give immediate relief from pain.
* Gargle with warm salt water. It is the best old age home remedy.
* Increase your liquid intake and make sure your house is humidified properly.
* Cut a lemon into 2 pieces. Take one piece and put some salt and black pepper on it, press with a knife so that salt-pepper penetrates into the lime. Put the lemon on heat to make it warm. Slowly lick this lemon squeezing it until no juice remains. Do it 2-3 times a day.
* Chives and scallions are helpful for a soar throat when simmered in water for 5 minutes. Drink as a tea.
* Figs, beets are also very effective in sore throat.
* Slippery Elm bark (Ulmus rubra) helps to soothe sore throats or cough. For sore throats, slippery elm bark can be taken as a tea. Prepare a tea by adding 1 tablespoon of dried bark to a cup. Pour 1 cup of boiling water into the cup. Steep it covered for at least 10 minutes and then strain. Have up to 3 cups of slippery elm bark tea a day.
* Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is another good sore throat remedy, however people with high blood pressure, heart, kidney or liver disease, pregnant or nursing women, or people who are taking diuretics, blood pressure drugs, should not use it.
* Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis), a herb found in Europe and North America, has been used for centuries as a sore throat home remedy. To make marshmallow root tea, add 1 tablespoon of the dried root to a cup. Add a cup (8 ounces) of boiling water, steep it covered for at least 10 minutes then strain. Drink up to 3 cups a day. Consult a doctor before taking marshmallow.
* Honeysuckle Flower, a sweet tasting and smelling herb, is one of the most commonly used sore throat remedies in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a remedy for sore throats. To prepare honeysuckle tea, bring 1 quart of water to a boil. Add 1 cup of honeysuckle flowers (not the leaves). Steep for at least 10 minutes, covered, and then strain. Sweeten with honey or stevia to taste if desired. Drink up to 4 cups a day.
* Add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cayenne pepper, juice of 1/4 a lemon, and 1 teaspoon of honey to a cup. Add 1 cup of hot water and stir. Drink up to 4 cups a day.
* Gargle with aloe Vera juice two times daily.
* Combine one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, one teaspoon of cayenne pepper and three tablespoons of clover honey in a glass of warm water. Gargle as often as necessary.
* Betony is a useful astringent, which reduces inflammation. Make a tea and use as a gargle.
* Add 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of boiling water; stir well and gargle while mixture is very warm. To this mixture you can add 4 parts Echinacea, 1 part garlic bulb, and 2 parts peppermint leaves to 1 part cayenne.
* Another remedy is to add 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of boiling water; stir well and sip slowly.
* Prepare a tea by adding 1 or 2 teaspoons of dried chamomile blossoms to a pint of boiling water; steep and drink a cup every few hours.
* Add 30 drops of Echinacea/goldenseal combination to one cup of warm water; drink every two hours.
* Grapefruit seed extract is a powerful all-around antimicrobial product and is an excellent disinfectant and antiseptic. Add five drops to a glass of water for a soothing gargle.
* Prepare a mixture by adding ¼ cup of apple cider vinegar and ¼ cup of honey. Take one tablespoon every four hours or as needed for pain relief.
* Steep two teaspoons of dried hyssop in one cup of boiling water, covered for ten minutes; strain and drink cool for an expectorant or hot to relieve coughs, congestion, and sore throat.
* Grind one tablespoon of mustard seed and add the juice of half a lemon, one tablespoon of salt, one tablespoon of clear honey, and 1 1/4 cups of boiling water. Leave this mixture, covered, for 15 minutes and use as a gargle.
* Prepare a tea by adding 2 sprigs of coarsely chopped parsley, 3 whole spice cloves, 1 teaspoon of powdered myrrh, and 1/4 teaspoon powdered goldenseal to 1 pint of boiling water. Steep. Stir occasionally while cooling, then strain and use as a gargle or mouthwash.
* Boil some pomegranate rinds and drink as a tea. The pomegranate contains astringents
* Prepare a tea by adding five fresh crushed or dried leaves; place in a cup and fill with water cooled to just below boiling; cover and leave to infuse for five minutes; remove leaves and drink. May also be used as a gargle.
* For sore throat get a small dixie cup, pour cultured buttermilk in the cup. Slowly swish and gargle it in your mouth slowly drink a small cup of it every hour for 1 day and sore throat will be gone next day.
* Take 4 cloves of garlic - minced fine, 1 tbsp. Honey,1/8 tsp. cayenne (approx.). Mix this together, take a spoonful when needed and chew it up well before swallowing.
* Water boiled with basil leaves should be taken as a drink, and also used as a gargle to relieve a sore throat.
* Tamarind water should be used as a gargle. A powder of the dry leaves and an infusion of the bark can also be used for preparation of a gargle for treating sore throat
* Two tablespoons of fenugreek seeds should be put in a litre of cold water and allowed to simmer for half an hour over a low flame. This should then be allowed to cool to a bearable temperature, strained, and then used entirely as a gargle.