Sputum Color

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anonymous

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We really need a sputum color chart. I'm color blind and I have a terrible time telling the doc what color my sputum is. If there was a chart w/ varying degrees I would more than likely be able to point it out.

Does a color chart exist? I asked my RN about it once and she said it was a good idea.
 
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RoyalPrince

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a chart could be nice for a general idea... but so many people vary in their colors...

as for me i can tell a bunch not only by the color but the thickness and as gross as it sounds the taste as to whether i'm starting to get sick or not... usually don't taste anything but if it starts to get nasty i know things are trying get bad in there... i know when i'm really getting worse it goes from a thickness to more of a liquidy gross tasting stuff... thats when i know more needs to be done than what i'm doing...

anybody else like this..?
 
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princessjdc

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Im not even sure what the colors represent, but I have had nasty tasting mucous before. I always thought clear was good then white, then green and then yellow and the worst is brown, thats what I have always thought, but not sure if it is true or not
 
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LisaV

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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rtlyrics.com/BrownSputum.htm">http://www.rtlyrics.com/BrownSputum.htm</a>
 
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anonymous

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What a lovely poem Lisa. Actually, I read that a couple weeks ago, that's where I heard that Pseudo was green.
 
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RoyalPrince

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

Each bacteria has a different color. Brown is normally really old stuff.</end quote></div>



coughed up a huge plug once a long time ago followed by a coughing fit producing a lot of brownish stuff... only time the brown sputum has ever came out of me as well as i can remember...
 
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65rosessamurai

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There'd been a few rare times, I coughed up some seriously hard white stuff from my lungs and it even gave a nasty taste to it!!
My sister had told me the basic "color code", and it is normally an in-general scale, but for the CF'rs who'd been on antibiotics, it may be different.
However, I can't recall, either, but thought the darker the color, the worse it was.
One warning, was to spit it out (this came from an old spool from the forum, and something I was told by my mom, and sister!) whenever possible.
 
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