Where does all the dark green phlegm go, when you start taking antibiotics and it stops coughing up?
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I also noticed that when i spit that nasty ish into the sink it dried like tar. I dont understand how the antibiotics can make this stuff magically into good phlegm again. Id rather be sick and coughing it out i think, than have it sitting in me. I dont think there is another way for the body to expel nasty green from the lungs besides hacking it out, so am i missing something here?
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It doesn't go anywhere. The reason that it is green is because it has bacteria and bacteria toxins in it. The antibiotic kills the bacteria and it can no longer produce its toxins. So the green junk isn't staying inside you; you simply aren't producing it anymore.
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Into your bloodstream.
It's not just sitting in you, your body is going to stop producing it once the antibiotics kick in. Remember that even though you take the Z PAK for only 5 days, it continues to work for 5 more....
Infection casues the change in your mucous. It changes color and consistency. Antibiotics take care of the infection thus returning your mucous to normal
The bacteria dies and your body stops sending white blood cells to the site of the infection and the phlegm stops. Make sure you take the z-pak until it's gone or the strong bugs live and you'll get a strain of bugs resistant to most bacteria and have a big problem. Actually pharmaceutical companies keep making new and better, different antibiotics for that thanks to people who stop taking their antibiotics as soon as they feel better.
The antobiotics kill the bacteria that produce the phlegm.
As the antibiotics kill off the bacteria, less and less phlegm is produced to be expectorated.
Whatever is still in your lungs has to be coughed up.
they don't turn into "good phlegm" --
the anti-biotics is for bacterial (somtimes viral) infection -- it kills the pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria that lives in your sputum. when you take the anti-biotics, these bacteria dies and therefore does not multiply.
where do the go? our respiratory tract has some cilia (hair-like substance) that propels the secretions out. some of them we cough out, some of them we swallow -- and sometimes we both cough and swallow them. i know it looks disgusting, but that's mother nature. then later on those secretions are expelled out of the body by means of your digestive and excretory process (peeing and pooing).
you can either keep coughing it out or just accept the fact that you swallow it whether you like it or not. everyday, we all swallow our own secretions (yes, we do produce them everyday -- they lubricate and help humidify our airways) but these secretions are clear and harmless -- and we always cough and/or swallow them. coughing is ok, but sometimes it hurts the airways.
zithromax is quite a potent medication. notice how it's only indicated for 5 days? usually it is prescribed for people suffering viral or bacterial infections in the lungs.
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