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Sputum cycle to the throat and clearing it
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@blm1007blm1007 It is perfectly okay to swallow mucus. Even when I had active MAC and Pseudomonas infections, the ID doc assured me it just goes into your stomach and gets digested.
Here is what another doc had to say:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-it-bad-to-swallow-mucus#1
@rosefoxx1 Why do you say it is bad to swallow it? It doesn't go back into your lungs, so that shouldn't be a concern.
In most situations, I find it better to swallow it than to carry a "spit rag" around, as that is full of germs, and I wouldn't like to carry a spit cup either. Besides, every time you handle the cup or tissue or cloth, you may be contaminating your hands, not just with MAC, but with any bacteria or viruses your mucus is trying to carry away.
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To answer your question if you swallow too much mucus it’s very bad for the stomach. You need to read up on it and see what it says. I mean a couple times if you do it now, but we’re talking about a lot of mucus here and it is very bad for the stomach. I promise you that!!
Read the following:
ntribute to stomach upset or even nausea. When mucus drains down the back of the throat and is swallowed, the body may be sensitive to the excess fluid, leading to digestive discomfort.
Postnasal Drip:
Excessive mucus from the nasal passages can drip down the back of the throat, leading to a sensation of needing to clear the throat and potentially swallowing more mucus than usual.
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Thanks Sue for the article.
Yes, I wash my hands constantly for the very reason you stated..... having thought about it myself. When I am out I use the short stout medical specimen cup with cap. I literally scrap the mucus/sputum off my tongue into the cup with using the edge of the cup and then cap it. ( Such detail!) Of course hand wipes and liquid hand sanitizers with me. I understand what you have said about either way.
I have got to find my way to swallowing it, at least when not doing Air Way Clearance etc. and especially away from the house and around others.
Life has sure changed and I know it will continue to change.
If you have a minute more. In reading your involvement with computers, with having a career in computers....if I understood correctly and I being horribly ignorant about all the wonderful aspects of computers/internet etc., ....is the address of the article called a DOI when it is a journal article? I have wondered what the right terminology is. In my search for understanding that is what I found DOI. Is that what it's called with a journal article? What does DOI stand for?
Wishing all safe gardening and masking for us both and all who do. However, OK may float away with all the rain this season.
Barbara