The symptom of excessive sputum in the elderly may be caused by certain diseases, such as bronchial dilatation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, lung infections and so on.
1. Bronchial dilatation: the main clinical manifestation is repeated coughing and sputum.
2. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): COPD is a common respiratory disease among the elderly, with the main symptoms of chronic cough, shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing, coughing up sputum, and increased sputum volume during acute attacks.
3. Lung cancer: it is also easy to occur in the old people with smoking history, with clinical manifestations of coughing, coughing up sputum, blood in sputum or even hemoptysis, chest pain and so on.
4. Lung infection: the immune system of the elderly tends to decline, and they are easily infected. When lung infection occurs, there may be fever, cough, sputum and other symptoms. In addition, tuberculosis can also make the elderly cough, cough sputum and other symptoms.
In addition, under normal physiological state, the body will have a small amount of mucus on the respiratory tract to play a lubricating and defensive role, occasionally a small amount of coughing may also be a normal physiological phenomenon. There are many diseases that cause excessive phlegm in the elderly, if it is caused by diseases, coughing up phlegm is serious, you need to go to the regular hospital in time for treatment.