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Lot of very thick mucus is coming from my mouth when I cough. This is happening only from 4 days. I started having steam from 5 days. Any medical reasons.
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It may be due to some minor urti. You can also gargle with saline warm water every morning.
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The steam you inhale gets condensed in the airways and gravity makes it trickle down towards lungs which naturally cannot be allowed to prevent occlusion of air spaces called alveoli. The cilia ( small microscopic hair ) of the inner lining of airways make a throatward movement taking up minute droplets of this along with sticky mucus secretions of the airways which reaches the throat and its collection there every few minutes compells you to cough it out.
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