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Black-looking phlegm can be caused by old blood that either ran down your throat from your mouth or nose due to a cold or dry membranes or from similar old blood in your bronchial tubes from a lung infection or bronchitis. Having bloody sputum (phlegm) is called hemoptysis. Phlegm can be colors ranging from white to black and the color is often, but not always, in streaks in the sputum. Yellow, brown, green, red, pink, and black phlegm are all reasons to see your doctor to determine the cause.

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When people cough up black phlegm it is?

Black-looking phlegm can be caused by old blood that either ran down your throat from your mouth or nose due to a cold or dry membranes or from similar old blood in your bronchial tubes from a lung infection or bronchitis. Having bloody sputum (phlegm) is called hemoptysis. Phlegm can be colors ranging from white to black and the color is often, but not always, in streaks in the sputum. Yellow, brown, green, red, pink, and black phlegm are all reasons to see your doctor to determine the cause. See the related question below for more information about causes of black phlegm.


What is the differences between non productive and productive cough?

When phlegm comes out when you caugh it is called productive cough. If nothing is produced it is called as dry or non - productive cough


What is A productive cough?

A nonproductive cough is a cough that does not bring up phlegm or mucus. It is also called a dry cough, and tends to irritate the throat much more than a productive cough (a cough that brings up phlegm and/or mucus) does.


What you call a yellowish substance when you cough?

Phlegm.


How do you use phlegm in a sentence?

Cough medicines may help either to control coughing or loosen the phlegm.


What is a loogie?

A "loogie" is a thick ball of phlegm that forms in the trachea or bronchial tubes, and is coughed up. To cough up a ball of phlegm and spit it out is colloquially called " to hock a loogie" or "hawking a loogie" (from the characteristic sound of expectoration, and related to the verb "hack" meaning to cough).


What drug can be taken when you cough out phlegm constantly?

any decongestant


How much flem do you cough up to when a person has emphysema?

A person with emphysema would cough up to about 2 cups of phlegm per day. That would mean in 8 days, they would cough up a gallon of phlegm. Drink up!


What is the sentence of phlegm?

I have a cough then suddenly, the phlegm was blocking my throat.


How do you hawk a loogie?

A "loogie" is a thick ball of phlegm that forms in the trachea or bronchial tubes, and is coughed up. To cough up a ball of phlegm and spit it out is colloquially called " to hock a loogie" or "hawking a loogie" (from the characteristic sound of expectoration or clearing the throat, and related to the verb "hack" meaning to cough).


Do you get yellow phlem with pneumonia?

Yes. Bacterial pneumonia will give you yellow phlegm A: I assume you mean when you cough. Actually, any pulmonary bacterial infection with a productive cough can yield yellow or brownish phlegm.


What is the difference between flu and phlegm?

Phlegm is mucous. It is generally referred to as "phlegm" and sometimes as "sputum" when referring to mucous found in the throat or expelled from the lungs/bronchial passages by way of a cough.