Re: lung mets -- excessive phlegm/mucouse (HELP)

[Guest guest]

Has anyone experienced or dealt with excessive phlegm (mucous) from the

lungs???? What medications did your doctors gave?

My dad has lung mets and needs to constantly spit out phlegm, especially in the

mornings. He was on Avastin/Xeloda for a year, which seems to control this

problem. But he was taken off chemo since he is currently doing radiation to

treat a large abdominal met....as a result, the excessive phlegm started again.

Thanks for your help.

Nickie

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[Guest guest]

Has anyone experienced or dealt with excessive phlegm (mucous) from the

lungs???? What medications did your doctors gave?

My dad has lung mets and needs to constantly spit out phlegm, especially in the

mornings. He was on Avastin/Xeloda for a year, which seems to control this

problem. But he was taken off chemo since he is currently doing radiation to

treat a large abdominal met....as a result, the excessive phlegm started again.

Thanks for your help.

Nickie

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[Guest guest]

Nickie, I do not know the answer to your question. But I do want you

to know that I am Praying for you dad. Please post more and tell us

how he is doing. How is he doing with the radiation? God Bless Him!!

Ingrid

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> Has anyone experienced or dealt with excessive phlegm (mucous) from

the lungs???? What medications did your doctors gave?

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> My dad has lung mets and needs to constantly spit out phlegm,

especially in the mornings. He was on Avastin/Xeloda for a year,

which seems to control this problem. But he was taken off chemo since

he is currently doing radiation to treat a large abdominal met....as

a result, the excessive phlegm started again.

>

> Thanks for your help.

>

> Nickie

>

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>

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> Yahoo! for Good

> Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Nickie,

also had a lot of mucous and phlem. His pulmonary doctor

ordered out a home neublizer and we put Albutrol and Azmacort in the

neublizer. When the coughing got really out of control he also

ordered lidocaine to put into the mixture.

You don't want to stop couging the phlem up completely but it sure

helps to get a good nights sleep. The albutrol helps get the phlem

up more easily.

Hope this helps,

Joyce-

-- In colon_cancer_support , Nic D

wrote:

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> Has anyone experienced or dealt with excessive phlegm (mucous)

from the lungs???? What medications did your doctors gave?

>

> My dad has lung mets and needs to constantly spit out phlegm,

especially in the mornings. He was on Avastin/Xeloda for a year,

which seems to control this problem. But he was taken off chemo

since he is currently doing radiation to treat a large abdominal

met....as a result, the excessive phlegm started again.

>

> Thanks for your help.

>

> Nickie

>

>

>

> ---------------------------------

> Yahoo! for Good

> Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Nickie,

also had a lot of mucous and phlem. His pulmonary doctor

ordered out a home neublizer and we put Albutrol and Azmacort in the

neublizer. When the coughing got really out of control he also

ordered lidocaine to put into the mixture.

You don't want to stop couging the phlem up completely but it sure

helps to get a good nights sleep. The albutrol helps get the phlem

up more easily.

Hope this helps,

Joyce-

-- In colon_cancer_support , Nic D

wrote:

>

> Has anyone experienced or dealt with excessive phlegm (mucous)

from the lungs???? What medications did your doctors gave?

>

> My dad has lung mets and needs to constantly spit out phlegm,

especially in the mornings. He was on Avastin/Xeloda for a year,

which seems to control this problem. But he was taken off chemo

since he is currently doing radiation to treat a large abdominal

met....as a result, the excessive phlegm started again.

>

> Thanks for your help.

>

> Nickie

>

>

>

> ---------------------------------

> Yahoo! for Good

> Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

>

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