Phlegmy Throat Causes

Throat Mucus

Knowingly as phlegm, an uncomfortable feeling that everyone already experience it, this condition happened as the mucus clogs up inside your throat. At normal condition the glands on the throat will be producing almost 2 liters mucus every single day.

Actually, mucus are needed in your body, it is very important to maintain human breathing system, it will moisten and cleanse the nasal passage, mucus can trap any foreign particle with the sticky properties so it will never reach respiratory system, fight infection and humidifies the air.

The Throat Mucus Symptoms

1. Phlegm
2. Throat Congestion
3. Breath became shortness
4. Coughing of Mucus & Phlegm

Cough - Throat Mucus Symtoms
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What’s The Causes of Throat Mucus?

Mucus are very usefull to human body, but sometimes when mucus production can be very excessive it can be really disturbing activity, excessive as a result of a post nasal drip, cold, or allergic reaction, also several viral infections can cause throat mucus also like chicken pox, measles, mononucleosis etc.

Post Nasal Drip: 

It happened when excessive mucus amount has accumulated in the nose and throat which create phlegm and cause coughing. It seems phlegm was build up in the throat while we sleep, that’s why it we feel congestion in the morning.

Cold or Flu: 

When you get cold or flu, your glands will produce thin and almost clear mucus inside the nose and right on the back of your throat, the color of the mucus will turning into yellow or green and thicken as a sign that your body has activated the self-defense (immune) and this are sign of the cold or flu viruses.

Pregnancy: 

Pregnancy women usually will experience the symptoms of nasal congestion, sneezing and coughing during because it came side by side with morning sickness pregnancy. According some research, estrogen knowingly as the cause factor the mucus get thicken or thinner.  

Seasonal Allergies: 

There’s many people who suffer from seasonal allergies almost every year, the symptoms are showing at once like sneeze, cough, itchy eye and throat mucus. Many allergens which can cause seasonal allergies from each seasons from winter to summer, it can be a tree and flower pollen, a bugs, a dust and many others, the allergies will last until the allergens are gone.

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