Also known as a wet cough or productive cough, it’s the result of having too much thick mucus in your airways. This sticky liquid can be white, yellow or green and comes up during coughing.

The body’s natural response is to cough, to clear out the airways. You can help your body’s natural response by thinning the mucus, making it easier to cough up – with Bisolvon® Chesty.

• Sticky mucus that comes up during persistent coughing
  
• A wheezing, rattling sound especially when breathing in and coughing
  
• Chest feels tight, heavy and/or congested
  
• Cough is often worse in the morning

• Clear, translucent mucus: normal mucus is thin, translucent and clear or cloudly.
  
• Yellow: immune-response cells called leukocytes make mucus appear yellow, and can result from an inflammation of the airways.
  
• Green: indicates a more serious bacterial infection such as bronchitis.
  
• Brown: air-borne dust, smog or smoke can cause brown flecks in mucus, as can traces of blood from the lungs or airways.
  
• Grey: cigarette smoke and air pollution can cause grey mucus.
  
• Pink: people suffering from asthma may cough up pink mucus resulting from blood cells appearing in the walls of the airways.
  
• Frothy mucus: illnesses such as pneumonia and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease may result in frothy mucus from the lungs being coughed up.

See your doctor or pharmacist for medical advice if you notice a change in the mucus you cough up.

It is perfectly normal for children to develop a cough when they have a cold. At first, this kind of cough starts usually as a dry non-productive cough and becomes a productive cough as the cold develops. Bisolvon® offers pleasant-tasting products that can be used by children 2 years and above, to help dissolve the mucus and clear the airways.