more about mucous plugs..

[jamie6girl]

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?

 

[jamie6girl]

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?

 

[jamie6girl]

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?

 

[jamie6girl]

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?

 

[jamie6girl]

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?

 

[mamerth]

I coughed up a mucus plug a month or so ago... dude that has hard!! I thought I was going to have to pound my chest in just to get it up and out. I could breath so much better when I got it out.

 

[mamerth]

I coughed up a mucus plug a month or so ago... dude that has hard!! I thought I was going to have to pound my chest in just to get it up and out. I could breath so much better when I got it out.

 

[mamerth]

I coughed up a mucus plug a month or so ago... dude that has hard!! I thought I was going to have to pound my chest in just to get it up and out. I could breath so much better when I got it out.

 

[mamerth]

I coughed up a mucus plug a month or so ago... dude that has hard!! I thought I was going to have to pound my chest in just to get it up and out. I could breath so much better when I got it out.

 

[mamerth]

I coughed up a mucus plug a month or so ago... dude that has hard!! I thought I was going to have to pound my chest in just to get it up and out. I could breath so much better when I got it out.

 

[JazzysMom]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>jamie6girl</b></i>

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?</end quote></div>


For the most part you would know it. I have had some that are so thick & hard when it comes flying up into my mouth it takes my breath away.

I have also had some of the hard bits mixed in with regular sputum.

You usually stop wheezing (if you were), pain goes away (if you had any) and generally can feel when its at least moved & you usually know by looking at it.

It always reminds me of cartlidge for some reason.

 

[JazzysMom]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>jamie6girl</b></i>

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?</end quote></div>


For the most part you would know it. I have had some that are so thick & hard when it comes flying up into my mouth it takes my breath away.

I have also had some of the hard bits mixed in with regular sputum.

You usually stop wheezing (if you were), pain goes away (if you had any) and generally can feel when its at least moved & you usually know by looking at it.

It always reminds me of cartlidge for some reason.

 

[JazzysMom]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>jamie6girl</b></i>

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?</end quote></div>


For the most part you would know it. I have had some that are so thick & hard when it comes flying up into my mouth it takes my breath away.

I have also had some of the hard bits mixed in with regular sputum.

You usually stop wheezing (if you were), pain goes away (if you had any) and generally can feel when its at least moved & you usually know by looking at it.

It always reminds me of cartlidge for some reason.

 

[JazzysMom]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>jamie6girl</b></i>

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?</end quote>


For the most part you would know it. I have had some that are so thick & hard when it comes flying up into my mouth it takes my breath away.

I have also had some of the hard bits mixed in with regular sputum.

You usually stop wheezing (if you were), pain goes away (if you had any) and generally can feel when its at least moved & you usually know by looking at it.

It always reminds me of cartlidge for some reason.

 

[JazzysMom]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>jamie6girl</b></i>

I don't know if I've ever coughed up a mucus plug. Would you know it?</end quote>


For the most part you would know it. I have had some that are so thick & hard when it comes flying up into my mouth it takes my breath away.

I have also had some of the hard bits mixed in with regular sputum.

You usually stop wheezing (if you were), pain goes away (if you had any) and generally can feel when its at least moved & you usually know by looking at it.

It always reminds me of cartlidge for some reason.

 

[mom2lillian]

His pain sounds like pleurisy to me.

Here is the best way that I can describe it in 9 year old terms (incase you want to describe to him). You have your lungs which are like a balloon, your lungs reside inside a sac -- like say putting the balloon in a sandwich baggie, if your lungs are irritated, infected, or damaged from acute or chronic injury the get inflamed. The inflamation causes them to be a bit too big for the sac they reside in and when you breathe the lungs ie water balloon touches the 'sac' -- thye can kind of stick. In my experience it hurts like hell sometimes so bad to where you cant breathe and cant move for a few minutes or longer and it can sometimes be a dull pain that lasts all day. Here is a nice adult appropriate description: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
">http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
</a>
I have gotten up a few plugs but never had that sort of pain associated with them. Maybe mine just arent bad enough. For me this sort of pain is a predictor of bad things to come, generally a case of hemoptysis/infection.


oh and my plugs always remind me of a black jelly bean since they are generally very very dark-- but made of string, mine generally look like they have been wound up from one string of mucous over and over again.

 

[mom2lillian]

His pain sounds like pleurisy to me.

Here is the best way that I can describe it in 9 year old terms (incase you want to describe to him). You have your lungs which are like a balloon, your lungs reside inside a sac -- like say putting the balloon in a sandwich baggie, if your lungs are irritated, infected, or damaged from acute or chronic injury the get inflamed. The inflamation causes them to be a bit too big for the sac they reside in and when you breathe the lungs ie water balloon touches the 'sac' -- thye can kind of stick. In my experience it hurts like hell sometimes so bad to where you cant breathe and cant move for a few minutes or longer and it can sometimes be a dull pain that lasts all day. Here is a nice adult appropriate description: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
">http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
</a>
I have gotten up a few plugs but never had that sort of pain associated with them. Maybe mine just arent bad enough. For me this sort of pain is a predictor of bad things to come, generally a case of hemoptysis/infection.


oh and my plugs always remind me of a black jelly bean since they are generally very very dark-- but made of string, mine generally look like they have been wound up from one string of mucous over and over again.

 

[mom2lillian]

His pain sounds like pleurisy to me.

Here is the best way that I can describe it in 9 year old terms (incase you want to describe to him). You have your lungs which are like a balloon, your lungs reside inside a sac -- like say putting the balloon in a sandwich baggie, if your lungs are irritated, infected, or damaged from acute or chronic injury the get inflamed. The inflamation causes them to be a bit too big for the sac they reside in and when you breathe the lungs ie water balloon touches the 'sac' -- thye can kind of stick. In my experience it hurts like hell sometimes so bad to where you cant breathe and cant move for a few minutes or longer and it can sometimes be a dull pain that lasts all day. Here is a nice adult appropriate description: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
">http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
</a>
I have gotten up a few plugs but never had that sort of pain associated with them. Maybe mine just arent bad enough. For me this sort of pain is a predictor of bad things to come, generally a case of hemoptysis/infection.


oh and my plugs always remind me of a black jelly bean since they are generally very very dark-- but made of string, mine generally look like they have been wound up from one string of mucous over and over again.

 

[mom2lillian]

His pain sounds like pleurisy to me.

Here is the best way that I can describe it in 9 year old terms (incase you want to describe to him). You have your lungs which are like a balloon, your lungs reside inside a sac -- like say putting the balloon in a sandwich baggie, if your lungs are irritated, infected, or damaged from acute or chronic injury the get inflamed. The inflamation causes them to be a bit too big for the sac they reside in and when you breathe the lungs ie water balloon touches the 'sac' -- thye can kind of stick. In my experience it hurts like hell sometimes so bad to where you cant breathe and cant move for a few minutes or longer and it can sometimes be a dull pain that lasts all day. Here is a nice adult appropriate description: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
">http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
</a>
I have gotten up a few plugs but never had that sort of pain associated with them. Maybe mine just arent bad enough. For me this sort of pain is a predictor of bad things to come, generally a case of hemoptysis/infection.


oh and my plugs always remind me of a black jelly bean since they are generally very very dark-- but made of string, mine generally look like they have been wound up from one string of mucous over and over again.

 

[mom2lillian]

His pain sounds like pleurisy to me.

Here is the best way that I can describe it in 9 year old terms (incase you want to describe to him). You have your lungs which are like a balloon, your lungs reside inside a sac -- like say putting the balloon in a sandwich baggie, if your lungs are irritated, infected, or damaged from acute or chronic injury the get inflamed. The inflamation causes them to be a bit too big for the sac they reside in and when you breathe the lungs ie water balloon touches the 'sac' -- thye can kind of stick. In my experience it hurts like hell sometimes so bad to where you cant breathe and cant move for a few minutes or longer and it can sometimes be a dull pain that lasts all day. Here is a nice adult appropriate description: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
">http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/pleurisy
</a>
I have gotten up a few plugs but never had that sort of pain associated with them. Maybe mine just arent bad enough. For me this sort of pain is a predictor of bad things to come, generally a case of hemoptysis/infection.


oh and my plugs always remind me of a black jelly bean since they are generally very very dark-- but made of string, mine generally look like they have been wound up from one string of mucous over and over again.