Doctor please help my husband who coughs almost every morning for 10 to 15 minutes ,he brings a lot of mucous when he spits in the basin and sometimes there is blood too.... this has been happening for more than 6 years he had various treatments but nothing seems to worki cant see him suffering so muchplease advice
Hi, coughing with blood is known as hemoptysis. It could be due to chronic severe bronchitis, aspergilli or tuberculosis, bronchiectasis etc. You must take him to the chest physician and undergo routine blood investigations with bloody sputum, chest X-ray or HRCT thorax to make diagnosis. If above investigations come normal then one should do bronchoscopy to rule out tumor, edema,embolism etc. Treatment is mainly depended on the underlying cause, but symptomatic treatment like bronchodilators can be given. So, consult pulmonologist first. Thanks