Breathing difficulties and persistent mucus buildup can significantly impact daily life, making simple activities feel exhausting and uncomfortable. When airways become congested with thick secretions ...

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Your body produces mucus naturally to protect your respiratory system, and under normal circumstances, this protective fluid remains clear and relatively thin. However, when mucus suddenly changes to ...

Phlegm. Mucus. Sputum. These are different names for the slimy, slippery stuff that flows out when you cough, sneeze, or sniffle. This gunk is your body’s defense weapon against infectious microbes ...

People often dismiss a cough as a minor ailment, but sometimes it can be a sign of an underlying problem, especially when it's accompanied by mucus (phlegm). What is the reason for a cough with phlegm ...

The build-up of abnormally thick mucus and the associated inflammation appear to be the initiating cause of damage to the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis (CF), rather than bacterial infections, ...

Home remedies are a long-running source of misinformation on social media. The latest iteration is a claim about ginger. "Did you know? Ginger wraps can eliminate the mucus from your lungs overnight," ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., December 21, 2020 -- Cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to learn how Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV) helps clear ...

If you could wander inside your own lungs from a microscopic vantage point, it would seem like a horror-fantasy universe straight out of Guillermo del Toro or H. P. Lovecraft. “There is a ‘lung ...

Blessing Azeke wrapped her cardigan around her body as another asthma attack set in. Provoked by cold air from an overhead fan in her law school classroom in Enugu, Nigeria, her lungs refused to let ...