When you have to spit blood

Spitting blood is usually seen after the nasal bleeding or irritation of the gums with the vigorous brushing. Or any part of the respiratory tract, which begins with the vocal cords and ends in the lungs, swollen or subjected to infection, irritation. More severe and less frequent causes of blood in the saliva are migrating blood clots in the lung, and cancer.

If you see blood in the fact that you spat or skashlyanuli, the following observations will help you decide what it means.

What is the color of blood and saliva? Under what circumstances does the blood come from? Here are some common scenarios.

You are 40 years or more. You smoked cigarettes for a long time, and you dry "smoker's cough" for years. Once you notice a little blood in the saliva - streams or mixed with it. Cough is the same as usual, and was not too strong. You decide to ignore the episode, as do many smokers. Then it happens again and again. But now, perhaps, you have a fever, chest pain and discomfort in the legs. Or do you have trouble with the heart, or you strongly caught a cold recently.

If you answer "no" to all these questions is a serious matter: Possible lung cancer. The main indicators are: your age (over 40), you are a heavy smoker, no temperature and a chronic cough, which was preceded by the appearance of blood. As the tumor will spread, capturing more and more lung tissue, you will feel the shortage of air and appears chest pain, especially when you breathe deeply, because cancer dissemination of the pleura (the bag that covers the lungs). Sounds scary? This is indeed the case. Quit smoking already now - there is a chance that you will pass this cup. Of course, when talking about the appearance of blood in these circumstances, meaning the cancer, mean statistical probability, and you may be lucky. A tumor can be benign, especially if you are younger than 40 years, you're basically healthy and previously had benign growths (polyps) in the airways.

You are a woman 20 - 30 years of age and are taking birth control pills are likely to smoke, but not necessarily. You suddenly appears a sharp pain on the side of the chest, when you take a deep breath. You can (but may not) be the temperature. You feel as if you have something in the calf of one leg. The blood you spit, bright red, and its a lot - more than a trickle. After a day or two, it becomes darker. You notice that you are a little short of breath, and even feel a little heartbeat. One leg is slightly swollen and a bit sensitive to the touch. All these symptoms suggest pulmonary embolism - that is, the appearance of a blood clot in the lungs.

Suppose, however, that you age, do not take contraceptive pills and smoke - and you develop these symptoms. Think about the past. You have recently had surgery? You've been lying? Break a leg? Long flew on an airplane? Your varicose veins become painful? All these circumstances make you vulnerable to blood clots traveling.

You notice a small trickle of blood in the saliva, which lasts for days and weeks. A few years ago, when tuberculosis was much more widespread than it is today, it would be the first diagnosis, which we would have to think about (and now it is possible, especially if you live in a shelter, where you can communicate with the appropriate patients). A much more common cause of such streams of blood are bronchiectasis - a chronic lung condition, such as far-gone a long bronchitis, the bronchial tubes when expanding or weakened in one or more regions of the lungs. In these patients, there may be disagreement as to the paranasal sinuses. Well, if bronchiectasis has developed, it will continue forever and requires long-term treatment with antibiotics and physiotherapy. People with this disease expectorate bad smelling substantial amounts of saliva, which may include blood, particularly in infection.

Any lung infection, bacterial or viral, can give blood in saliva. Chronic bronchitis - an infection of the bronchial tree - can serve as an example. During his saliva strips in the blood; lung cancer blood rather mixed with it. When pneumococcal pneumonia (classic type of pneumonia in the elderly), saliva has a rusty color, as the blood in her old: bleeding in the lungs occurred a few days earlier than the blood moved with a cough. Pneumococcal pneumonia also provides temperature, chills and pain when breathing.

If you have any type of heart disease, which for many years weakened heart, you may suffer from the stagnation of blood in the lungs. You need several pillows or sit in a chair to breathe calmly. In these cases there is often a cough and frothy saliva is dyed and blood.

These are some of the major causes of blood in the saliva. But do not take for granted at any chronic illness or from time to time skashlivat blood, it is not normal and needs to be treated, it is very easy to see lung cancer, which also develops at this time. Therefore, if your prolonged cough somehow changed, ie becomes more frequent or added blood in the saliva, let the doctor examine your lungs.

And finally, if you were coughing heavily as a result of sudden cold or flu, cough intensity itself can cause small lesions in the throat, which will give blood in the saliva. But do not take it lightly, especially if the bleeding continues.

Symptom: blood in the saliva