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Excess sputum

2017-05-15 02:48:05
It's been around 2 months my spuctum is not ending. I was advised to test my early morning spuctum but when I get up in the morning spuctum is not released for about 2-3hrs .. now what should I do to get my morning spuctum ?
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Please take steam inhalation or nebulisation with hypertonic saline at a nearby clinic and collect the sputum sample. Other tests that you may need are chest X-ray, Complete hemogram and ESR.

Answered2017-05-15 15:40:18

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