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Q: What causes mucus build up?
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What disease causes mucus build up in lungs?

Cystic Fibrosis


What does it mean to be wheezing with a cold?

mucus build up


What causes hard mucus build up in the morning?

I think what possibly causes mucas build up especially first thing in the morning is eating foods and consuming drinks which contain dairy products. Drinking plenty of water will alleviate the affects and make the mucas thinner.


What causes sinus pressure to build up?

Sinus pressure builds up from accumulated mucus that irritates the inside of the nose and causes sinus pressure. From there you have a full blown cold and can break down the mucus with medication.


Why does a defective chloride channel result in sticky mucus in the airways?

The defective channel causes a build up of chlorine ions in the airways cells. This higher concerntration of chlorine causes water to enter ther cell via osmosis. The water is removed from the mucus in the airway and because the chloride channel is no longer letting chlorine out the water remains in the cell and not in the mucus.


What did you blow out of your nose?

Mucus is mostly dirt and bacteria build up.


How is smoking harmful to your lungs?

Your lungs are the reasons you body has Oxygen. In your lungs, we do produce mucus, which we cough up because of the cilia in our lungs. Smoking causes this cilia to not move the mucus out of your lungs which in turn causes problems.


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What causes sclerosis?

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What causes mucus in your chest?

Infection.


What are the causes of poly sinusitis?

Ploysinusitis is the simultaneous inflammation of multiple sinuses. What causes this is that mucus gland gets blocked, but the gland keeps making mucus and cannot drain out. The mucus will then stretch the gland and creating a mucus filled cyst.