When you cough up green or yellow phlegm you need to be prescribed antibiotics, right?

Cardiff University ^ | March 24, 2011 | Unknown

[goat granny]

if true get to your doctor. Bowel bleeding can be just hemorrhoids, should not have any blood in urine...

[Ro_Thunder]

Since I started flossing (daily, instead of whenever), my teeth (and gums) have been better, as well as my sinuses.

It’s all related - the Ear, Nose and Throat (mouth), after all.

[pepperdog]

Oh no, not the REVEREND Wright! And there is a world of difference in what I said and what he said. I'm talking about verifiable instances of the FDA pulling life saving drugs from the market place for mostly idiotic reasons and you're equating my statement with a disease that is caused mostly by practices that can and should be avoided. Now if the FDA were to pull all the drugs that treated AIDS from the market I'd have to agree with the hallowed REVEREND, that they (the FDA which is a GOVERNMENTAL agency)were out to kill off AIDS patients.

I was not deadly serious in my statement, but kind of half way curious/suspicious. Or perhaps it's just FDA ineptitude??? Just speculating.

[neverdem]

micro ping

Antibiotic prescribing for discoloured sputum in acute cough/LRTI

LRTI = lower respiratory tract infection

[1010RD]

Phlegm doesn’t rhyme with skates.

[RegulatorCountry]

Should we rhyme all answers to questions in our FR replies?

What rhymes with replies? Size, eyes, thighs, dries, buys, ayes, dyes, dies, guys, hies, lies, pies, ties, vies and whys, off the top of my head.

So, I’m ready for you, lol.

[Ole Okie]

When I urinate, I see lots of healthy, bright red blood.

Last time that happened to me, the urologist insisted on removing a cancer from my bladder.

[null and void]

Q: What’s green and skates on ice?
A: Peggy Phlegm

[null and void]

Last time that happened to me, the urologist insisted on removing a cancer from my bladder.

Cut cut cut, that's all American doctors do...

Extra points to anyone who knows the punchline.

[null and void]

Oooookay.

Q: Whats green and makes people well?
A: Mucus Welby, MD...

[editor-surveyor]

>> “When you cough up green or yellow phlegm you need to be prescribed antibiotics, right?” <<

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WRONG!

The discoloration is strong evidence that your immune system is attacking the infection.

Antibiotics demolish all immune response for 6 month to a year, leaving the patient more likely to contract fatal infection, and with severely impaired digestion, leading often to colon and lung cancer.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “When I urinate, I see lots of healthy, bright red blood.” <<

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You’re out of kidney!

You need lemon juice and a tsp of hot cayenne in all of your drinking water.

[editor-surveyor]

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I am very wary of any drug or treatment studies coming out of the US as they are likely sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry run health care system and may have the agenda of supporting massive sales of deadly prescription drugs, possibly aimed at killing of the “undesirable” portion of the population.

[editor-surveyor]

Web MD = Suicide!

[1010RD]

You saw right through my flimsy whimsy. ;-]

[webstersII]

“However, the chances of the infection leading to something that will kill you are much higher if you don’t take antibiotics”

This ridiculous thought process is not backed up by medical studies.

Also, this thought process is what has led to the growth of superbugs which can’t be killed with antibiotics.