Patients with yellow sputum symptoms when coughing may be caused by a variety of etiologies that cannot be generalized, usually sinusitis, bronchiectasis, lung abscess, pneumonia, pharyngitis, bronchitis, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases of the respiratory system. The general treatment measures are: 1, cough suppression: patients often have a persistent cough, and affect the normal life, study, work, need to follow medical advice to use dextromethorphan, pentoxifylline, codeine and other drugs to achieve the effect of coughing and asthma; 2, expectoration: if the patient’s yellow sputum volume, and through coughing can not be completely cough, under the guidance of doctors to use carboxymethylstilbestrol, bromhexine, ambroxol and other drugs to dissolve sputum and nebulized inhalation to dilute sputum so as to promote better expectoration; 3. Antibacterial: respiratory infections are mainly caused by bacterial infections, and patients should seek medical treatment promptly with antibiotic drugs such as amoxicillin, cefuroxime and levofloxacin; if the symptoms of coughing and coughing up yellow sputum are caused by tuberculosis, treatment is clinically mostly combined with drugs such as isoniazid and rifampin; 4. Relief of airway spasm: If the symptoms of coughing yellow sputum are triggered by bronchial lesions combined with infection, it is also necessary to use β2-adrenoceptor agonists such as salbutamol aerosol, salmeterol and formoterol, and anticholinergic drugs such as ipratropium bromide aerosol to achieve the effect of relieving airway discomfort as prescribed by the doctor.