I have brown phlegm in my throat when I wake up in the morning

It is very common to have brown phlegm in the throat when waking up in the morning. It will not only cause great harm to the patient's physical health, but also seriously affect their normal life and work. Therefore, it is particularly important to understand its cause and find scientific and effective treatment methods. This type of sputum is usually caused by the presence of hemoglobin in the sputum, which may be due to diseases such as heart valve disease.

1. Brown sputum is caused by the presence of hemoglobin in the sputum.

1. Brown sputum: It is more common in diseases such as valvular heart disease, pulmonary infarction or pulmonary schistosomiasis.

2. Reddish-brown sputum: lobar pneumonia.

3. Reddish-brown sputum: If the sputum coughed up is reddish-brown, rusty, coffee-colored, and jelly-like, the cause should be pneumonia caused by pneumococcus. When suffering from this disease, it is often accompanied by chest pain and fever.

4. Brown sputum: seen in diseases such as amoebic lung abscess, pulmonary congestion, chronic congestive heart disease, chronic heart failure, etc. caused by amoeba infection.

5. Gray-brown sputum: common in acute pharyngitis and chronic inflammation of the nasal cavity, sinuses, and tonsils, long-term smokers, and upper respiratory tract infections.

6. Dark-brown sputum: One possibility is caused by air pollution and dust. But usually there are only one or two mouthfuls, not many, and it is mixed with phlegm. Another possibility is respiratory bleeding, which causes coughing up dark brown sputum.

In addition, acute and chronic rhinitis, acute and chronic pharyngitis, and bronchitis, if there is ruptured capillaries, may cause hemoglobin to be contained in the sputum, and it is also possible to cough up brown sputum in the morning. Depending on the specific situation, an accurate diagnosis can only be made based on other symptoms or examinations.

(II) Why do I have phlegm in my throat when I wake up early?

First: Physical weakness

Some people may not get enough water due to long-term sweating in the summer, which may lead to physical weakness and lack of energy.

Then, because the body is weak, the body functions are still functioning for digestion when sleeping at night. If you do not drink water to detoxify at this time, it will cause the spleen to be weak and the water and moisture to remain in the body and cannot be discharged, and it will condense into phlegm. So when you feel phlegm when you wake up in the morning, it may be caused by your body being too weak.

Second: Poor spleen and stomach

A weak spleen and stomach, lingering stagnation of water and dampness can damage the spleen and stomach; or overeating of raw food, melons and fruits can damage the middle yang; or drinking too much water due to fever and inadequate spleen function can all cause water and dampness to retain and gather into phlegm. In addition, eating too much fatty and sweet food can cause turbid air to accumulate in the stomach, generate dampness and heat, and also turn into turbid phlegm.

Third: Lung Qi is not good

If an exogenous infection is not treated properly, or if a person is weak and suffers from exogenous infections repeatedly, the lung qi will be damaged and unable to transport fluid to the four parts of the body and regulate the water channels to transport it to the bladder, causing the fluid to retain and turn into phlegm. The phlegm is stored in the lungs, the lung qi is not well affected, and the phlegm rushes into the airways, causing coughing and excessive phlegm.

Fourth: Be careful of chronic pharyngitis for a long time

Having phlegm when waking up in the morning may not seem to have much to do with chronic pharyngitis, but if you feel phlegm in your throat when you wake up in the morning for a long time and cannot cough it out, it may be a precursor to chronic pharyngitis. The symptoms of chronic pharyngitis are dry and itchy throat, a foreign body sensation, a feeling of having phlegm but being unable to spit it out, especially nausea when brushing your teeth early in the morning, etc. If you have all these symptoms, you may need to be careful about chronic pharyngitis and go to the hospital for a check-up as soon as possible.