Mucous...

[barb7330]

all. Not a very nice subject. I've been having a terrible time trying to cough up the phlegm....I have an aerobika that I use and then huff cough but doesn't seem to help. Anybody else have any suggestions please.

[gerald]

Barb is it because the mucous is too thick?  

[lavishgail]

That's what happens to me all the time, I drink tea with 🍋 and just keep trying, and it seems everytime I go to bed is when I start coughing, sometimes it does come up.
I think it's to thick as well.
Anything you like "hot" to drink will help. I hope.

[barb7330]

Don't know what I can do....I drink practically all day long and I've been living on allergy and Mucinex. pills.

[gerald]

Barb, sometimes when I have a problem bringing up mucous I bring a pot of salt water to boil on the stove and breath in the steam. 

Mostly I try and breath it in through my mouth to get the maximum moisture in.  If I do that for 4 or 5 minutes it starts to loosen up

and then I can cough it up

[lavishgail]

I do that too Gerald. I pour it in a glass bowl towel over my head like back in the old day's with cut up lemon 🍋
My brother gets bronchitis all the time oh, so I go over boil up the water put it in a glass bowl with the lemon have him put his head over it with the towel and then I gently pound on his back and finally it comes up every time.
Hope you get it out bc that's what gives us infection from old mucus.