Patients with pneumonia who have a lot of sputum do need to expectorate or pat their backs and position themselves for drainage, which is conducive to coughing the sputum out of the body. Pneumonia is narrowly understood as an inflammation of the lungs that occurs after the lungs have been infected by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma, and so on, and the patient’s main manifestations are coughing, coughing up sputum, including fever, and in severe cases, there can be chest tightness, dyspnea, and other symptoms. Sputum drainage is very important for patients with pneumonia because sputum contains a large number of pathogenic microorganisms, and the patient’s coughing and expectoration of sputum is actually the process of expelling pathogenic microorganisms from the body. Doctors, including family members, should help the child or patient to expel sputum. If the patient’s sputum is very sticky, medications, such as sputum-thinning medications, can be used to make the sputum thinner and easier to cough up. You can also use your hands to drain the sputum and pat the patient on the back so that the sputum can be drained from the patient’s body, which also facilitates sputum expulsion. Overall, by coughing up sputum, the patient with pneumonia is actually helping the disease to heal and restore his or her health.