Guide To Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis Symptoms

Production Of Thick Sputum

Sputum is a mixture of mucus and saliva individuals cough up from their lungs and airways. Individuals with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis have an immune system that rapidly sends eosinophils and neutrophils rushing to the lungs upon detecting the aspergillosis fungus. This hypersensitive reaction causes the lungs to produce too much mucus meant to lubricate and protect the airways from foreign pathogens, allergens, and other substances. As the thick sputum blocks the already narrowed airways of an affected individual, the lungs respond by trying to cough it up. Because of the amount of irritation and inflammation that occurs in the airways and lungs of affected individuals, the sputum they cough up may have a brown or dark red tinge to it from the presence of blood.

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