The first phlegm in the morning is brown and sticky

In life, many people have the habit of spitting when they get up early, and some people may spit out dark brown sputum that is relatively sticky. It is generally believed that this is due to a lung infection. At this time, you need to go to the hospital for a blood test, and take a chest X-ray and sputum bacterial culture. Of course, due to individual differences, it is recommended that after this situation occurs, it is best to go to a professional hospital for examination as soon as possible to rule out lesions.

1. Pay attention to whether there is inhalation injury

This situation may also occur during tracheotomy or intubation, as well as shock, surgical anesthesia, invasive wound infection, and suppurative thrombophlebitis.

2. Pay attention to whether you have difficulty breathing

In daily life, we should also pay attention to changes in people's body temperature, the amount of sputum produced when coughing up sputum and the properties of the sputum. Clinically, it should also be distinguished from burns or leukemia.

3. Physical examination.

People with severe burns usually have burns on their chests, and it is difficult to obtain chest signs at this time. Therefore, careful examination should be performed to check for any respiratory changes or rales.

4. To clarify the infection bacteria

We should also perform regular cultures of endocrine secretions, preferably bronchopulmonary lavage fluid cultures, to prevent contamination.

5. Chest X-ray examination.

The diagnosis of most patients after burns depends on X-ray examination. So we should do an x-ray.

If it is caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Haemophilus influenzae, it is called bacterial pneumonia. Sometimes it is caused by mycoplasma and chlamydia, then it is clinically called pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens. When it is caused by influenza virus and herpes simplex virus, we call it viral pneumonia. In fact, no matter what bacteria cause pneumonia, symptoms of brown and sticky sputum may appear. If people do not receive timely treatment, there may be bleeding, so everyone must pay attention to it.

Some people have the habit of spitting after getting up in the morning, especially the first spit. If it is brown and sticky, then everyone should be careful. This is likely to be a problem with the lungs. We should go to the hospital for an X-ray examination in time, or use other examination items to confirm the type of pneumonia, and then take antibiotic treatment measures according to different bacteria and viruses.