It may be caused by diet, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and other reasons.
1. Dietary reasons: If you have a heavy taste in your daily life, it is easier to cause salty white sputum due to the high salt content in food.
2. Chronic bronchitis: because the bronchial tubes are infected with bacteria or viruses, the bronchial mucosa will be congested and edematous, and will secrete inflammatory exudates, which may lead to a large amount of secretion of mucus in the patient’s throat when the inflammation strikes, which may also lead to the symptom of salty white sputum.
3. Pneumonia: Pneumonia coughing up white sputum is relatively common in clinical practice. Due to the decline in their own resistance, invaded by viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, infection and inflammation, resulting in the phenomenon of white sputum salty.
Patients who have white sputum salty phenomenon, should go to the hospital in time for blood routine and lung CT and other tests, in the doctor’s advice under the correct treatment.