If the sputum is sticky and cannot be coughed out easily, you can generally take some symptomatic treatment drugs, such as drugs that dilute sputum and promote the discharge of sputum, such as carboxymesterol oral solution, aminoglutethimide hydrochloride, acetylcysteine, eucalyptus pinene, etc. Such drugs can dilute sputum and make it easy to discharge sputum, so you can take them when the sputum is sticky and cannot be coughed out easily. There is also the treatment of the cause, the common diseases that cause thick sputum not easy to cough out are viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, chlamydia and other pathogenic microbial infections, and caused by the cold, acute pharyngitis, acute tracheobronchitis, lung infections and other lung infections, etc., according to the different causes for treatment. Viral infection caused by antiviral treatment or Chinese herbal medicine identification treatment, bacterial infection caused by antibiotics can be given anti-infective treatment, while mycoplasma, chlamydia and other atypical pathogens caused by infection, generally given macrolides, such as azithromycin, or about 18 years of age or older adults, can also be given quinolone antibiotics, let’s say levofloxacin mesylate, for anti-infective treatment.