what is the normal color for our mucus?

Nightwriter · Feb 5, 2009

I also have green mucus and it changes shades, thickness, and amount. I too always thought that green and yellow meant infection. But my doctor says this is a common fallacy, one that many doctors believe to be true also.

Green can also mean old mucus Because CF'er cannot readily cough up newly produced mucus, it sits for a while in the lungs and changes to green -- my doctor calls it "cooking." I always have green even if I am fine and not even culturing anything. When I am exposed to something that is a trigger that causes inflammation, my mucus gets thicker, and more profuse. And the color may darken. Still doesn't mean infection.

Now yellow is also typical of asthma and inflammation. Not necessarily infection. In fact, my doctor has a plastic model of the airways which shows the airways thickening from asthma with the mucus lining the airways as being yellow.

Nightwriter · Feb 5, 2009

I also have green mucus and it changes shades, thickness, and amount. I too always thought that green and yellow meant infection. But my doctor says this is a common fallacy, one that many doctors believe to be true also.

Green can also mean old mucus Because CF'er cannot readily cough up newly produced mucus, it sits for a while in the lungs and changes to green -- my doctor calls it "cooking." I always have green even if I am fine and not even culturing anything. When I am exposed to something that is a trigger that causes inflammation, my mucus gets thicker, and more profuse. And the color may darken. Still doesn't mean infection.

Now yellow is also typical of asthma and inflammation. Not necessarily infection. In fact, my doctor has a plastic model of the airways which shows the airways thickening from asthma with the mucus lining the airways as being yellow.

Nightwriter · Feb 5, 2009

I also have green mucus and it changes shades, thickness, and amount. I too always thought that green and yellow meant infection. But my doctor says this is a common fallacy, one that many doctors believe to be true also.

Green can also mean old mucus Because CF'er cannot readily cough up newly produced mucus, it sits for a while in the lungs and changes to green -- my doctor calls it "cooking." I always have green even if I am fine and not even culturing anything. When I am exposed to something that is a trigger that causes inflammation, my mucus gets thicker, and more profuse. And the color may darken. Still doesn't mean infection.

Now yellow is also typical of asthma and inflammation. Not necessarily infection. In fact, my doctor has a plastic model of the airways which shows the airways thickening from asthma with the mucus lining the airways as being yellow.

Nightwriter · Feb 5, 2009

I also have green mucus and it changes shades, thickness, and amount. I too always thought that green and yellow meant infection. But my doctor says this is a common fallacy, one that many doctors believe to be true also.

Green can also mean old mucus Because CF'er cannot readily cough up newly produced mucus, it sits for a while in the lungs and changes to green -- my doctor calls it "cooking." I always have green even if I am fine and not even culturing anything. When I am exposed to something that is a trigger that causes inflammation, my mucus gets thicker, and more profuse. And the color may darken. Still doesn't mean infection.

Now yellow is also typical of asthma and inflammation. Not necessarily infection. In fact, my doctor has a plastic model of the airways which shows the airways thickening from asthma with the mucus lining the airways as being yellow.

Nightwriter · Feb 5, 2009

I also have green mucus and it changes shades, thickness, and amount. I too always thought that green and yellow meant infection. But my doctor says this is a common fallacy, one that many doctors believe to be true also.
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<br />Green can also mean old mucus Because CF'er cannot readily cough up newly produced mucus, it sits for a while in the lungs and changes to green -- my doctor calls it "cooking." I always have green even if I am fine and not even culturing anything. When I am exposed to something that is a trigger that causes inflammation, my mucus gets thicker, and more profuse. And the color may darken. Still doesn't mean infection.
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<br />Now yellow is also typical of asthma and inflammation. Not necessarily infection. In fact, my doctor has a plastic model of the airways which shows the airways thickening from asthma with the mucus lining the airways as being yellow.

tammykrumrey · Feb 5, 2009