salty cough help

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   hey everyone,

I have a friend that have flu symptoms but the reason I am posting this to ask if anyone knows about a strange symptom she is having what it means.

she says she has a very salty cough when she coughts up white phlem.  

Anyone here ever heard of this salty mucus and is this related to swine flu?

Please reply if you know what the salt taste means

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Loribearme Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Adviser Group Joined: September 06 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2542	Post Options Post Reply Quote Loribearme Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: salty cough help Posted: June 04 2010 at 8:42pm
	hey everyone, I have a friend that have flu symptoms but the reason I am posting this to ask if anyone knows about a strange symptom she is having what it means. she says she has a very salty cough when she coughts up white phlem. Anyone here ever heard of this salty mucus and is this related to swine flu? Please reply if you know what the salt taste means

Mary008 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List V.I.P. Member Joined: June 22 2009 Status: Offline Points: 5769	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mary008 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 04 2010 at 10:21pm
	hope your friend feels better soon... This is a logical post I found, seems it is something some people experience and looks like time is the healer. I think many are not drinking enough water? ................. I have the same problem periodically, and find that a change in diet seems to help. Eliminate coffee/tea, salt, alcohol from your diet, and drink extra water. This should help over a week or two. ................... At one point I was having a little difficulty breathing which made me get up and use stairs, wash up and get dressed to go to the Doc.. It was difficult. I was using a cough drop called *fishermans friend* that cut through mucus, made breathing easier.At that time doctors were not even saying the word flu... it was summer and so many were ill but staying at home... we were flat for 2 weeks. In the parking lot as I left the doctor's office I started coughing and it was awful.hard to stop. I coughed for 15 min. and after that I felt sooo much better. It seems that this flu (mucus ) really sits in the trachea... and gathers mucus at the beginning of the branching where it then fans out into the lungs. We used a lot of Mucinex and vicks and vicks in steam, made tent over head with towel. but that is for 18 and older not kids as they could get burned by steam, better in a vaporizer, I would put it in their room where it can't get bumped by the child. The liquid was so important for us. I made up water bottles in the morning put a tbl spoon of elderberry and 4 droppers ( 18+ ) of pluresy root tincture in each bottle after i poured out a bit of the water to make room, shook them and made 6 per person, we drank what we wanted, our bodies led the charge : ) We used moist heat ( a lot ) for muscle pain in our back, neck... wherever it traveled. Not everyone gets that, it seems to be different for each individual. If there was any question at all of difficulty breathing ( my daughter looked gray ) If she was little I would have hit 911, but I put 3-4 drops of tea tree oil in a steamy bowl with a towel and she used it for 10 min. bringing her head up whenever she liked from the steam. She was so much better after that. We used a lot of cough drops and the kids, mine too seem to like natural cherry or Ludens cherry cough drops. We had to order food and family brought food to the door. Our inner ear was off, we swayed a bit. In order to eat we took dramamine sp? as advised by our Doc. and that took away most of the dizzyness and nausea. It was wonderful and i always keep it now. Target has a generic brand, over the counter made by Rugby.. less expensive. Reactions to the flu vary and yes we got it about 3 times over the months, and it was less harsh each time. The last time we had a flu was in 2000, I slept through that one. ............. Mary008

Elver Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Valued Member Joined: June 14 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7778	Post Options Post Reply Quote Elver Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 05 2010 at 9:40pm
	I've never heard of a salty cough. However, I just got over something myself that was a cross between a cold & the flu. The best way to describe it was that it resembled a cold, but with extreme fatigue. And I mean, EXTREME fatigue. It started as a dry raspy sore throat for a day, which turned into a head cold that wasn't as bad as some head colds that I've had, but the fatigue was hard to forget. I found myself going to bed every afternoon for 3 days. I'm almost fully recovered now on day 6 with most of my energy back. My friend has it now and he's got a fairly high fever near 102, which doesn't sound like a cold to me. This seems like some kind of weird flu.

Littleraven Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List V.I.P. Member Joined: May 10 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 438	Post Options Post Reply Quote Littleraven Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 07 2010 at 5:16pm
	Hi there, yep that's fairly common to have a salty cough with viruses and bacteria where the body is trying to rid itself of an invader, especially where low levels of moisture--ie.. fluids are concerned. The salty taste is usually a result of a concentrated version of phlegm which is naturally high in salts due to a natural antibacterial/viral response. Salt is a natural defense--that's why it often helps to gargle with salt--kills back a good number of the little crawlies in the first place and the body often puts this same trick to use. For example, tears are are a natural salty response to a foreign object or invader in the eyes or sinuses. The old saying of "drink plenty of fluids" is important not because of the uncomfortable salt taste, which can concentrate, but because it helps to keep the system working in flushing the viruses and bacteria from the lungs and other damp areas within the body. Also with as much salt as people put into their systems these days, it's easy to have salt become highly concentrated or noticeable (taste-suseptible) in various amounts and in certain responses.
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PHIL Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote PHIL Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 13 2016 at 10:22pm
	I DO THE SAME ISSUE ,DOC SAID ITS NORMAL DUE TO ANTIBIOTIC INTAKE