Possible causes of very yellow and thick sputum include: Staphylococcus aureus infectious pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and lung abscess.
1. Staphylococcus aureus infectious pneumonia: it is an acute purulent inflammation of the lungs and usually occurs in people with low immunity. Its clinical manifestations are fever, cough, coughing up sputum very yellow, very thick phenomenon, and even appear in the lung cavity lesions. Can follow the doctor’s instructions for targeted anti-infection treatment, such as piperacillin sulbactam, linezolid and other antibiotics.
2. Bronchial dilatation: Usually the dilatation is irreversible, which can be manifested by repeated coughing, coughing up sputum and hemoptysis, and usually the sputum is very thick, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is common, and the sputum is mostly yellowish-green in color.
3. Lung abscess: it is an infectious disease, common anaerobic bacterial infection. In the progression of the disease, the cough gradually intensifies, the amount of sputum gradually increases, there may be coughing yellow sputum, sputum also accompanied by the symptom of foul smell.
To summarize, cough sputum yellow thick need to find the cause of the disease, symptomatic treatment, need to pay attention to can’t private medication, to avoid damage to their own health.