I am a newbie here and just getting traction on all the traditional air clearance protocols, but in my rather dramatic case, I have found that eating warm soups almost exclusively, and large quantities of very warm water keeps my secretions flowing and prevents me from having violent coughing jags like I used to have in the past. Now that I am revving up my aerobic exercise, and my airway clearance breathing exercises, things have been slowly improving. I am very prone to hemoptysis, and one way that I gauge my progress is to not have those bleeding episodes and what I describe is apparently helping. I walk a very fine line in my protocol.

Hope this helps.

Here is some information about the airway clearance protocol recommended for people with Bronchiectasis, which makes us susceptible to all kinds of nasty bugs in our lungs: