Even if it is kind of gross when you're full of it and wrestling with it, phlegm actually serves a useful purpose: The thick, sludgy substance—made up of mostly water, salt, and antibodies—is designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever fought a cold or infection in the past, chances are you’ve had the not-so-pleasant experience of coughing up green ...

Confirming widespread beliefs by doctors and parents alike, the color of phlegm coughed up by people is indeed a good indicator of whether that person has a bacterial infection, an international group ...

Struggling through a nasty round of bronchitis with little better to do than binge watch Netflix and feel epically sorry for myself, I pondered the ageless cold-and-flu-season question: Phlegm. Why?

When you’re sick, you’ll often produce more phlegm, and might notice it’s thicker or a different colour: white, green, yellow or maybe even brown. What can this phlegm – also called mucus, snot, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s never any fun feeling under the weather, but when a common cold is paired with excess phlegm, it ...

Various home remedies can help manage phlegm and mucus, such as drinking plenty of fluids and using a saline nasal spray or rinse. If home remedies do not help, over-the-counter and prescription ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spitting pot I consider as an essential part of the bed-room apparatus. That’s what French physician René Laennec wrote in 1821.

Most people are all too familiar with the icky, uncomfortable feeling of having mucus build up in the nasal passageways while suffering through a cold or bad allergy flare-up. Or is it phlegm, rather ...

I know it’s hard to believe, but autumn isn’t all pumpkin spice and everything nice; it has its fair share of flaws, too. One major downer that comes to mind (though, IMO, there aren’t many) is that ...

Struggling through a nasty round of bronchitis with little better to do than binge watch Netflix and feel epically sorry for myself, I pondered the ageless cold-and-flu-season question: Phlegm. Why?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Confirming widespread beliefs by doctors and parents alike, the color of phlegm coughed up by people is indeed a good indicator of whether that person has a bacterial ...