Are these sinus or allergy Symptoms
For about a week and a half now I have been waking up with a headache a can take tylenol and it will go away I will be ok during the day but at night my nose gets all stopped up, my chest gets congested and when I wake up of the morning I have the headache, sneezing, a scratchy throat and I cough up all of this greenish, brownish, yellowish mucus sometimes its blood streaked and a couple times there has been blood in my nose as well when I blow it. But after I take some tylenol and get all of that out I'm pretty ok during the day but at night it starts all over again PLEASE HELP!!
Hello,
I would strongly encourage you to call your doctor and have him/her take a look at what's going on. That's the best way to get a personalized diagnosis. However, when mucus discharge is yellow, green, or bloody, that's usually a sign of infection. Allergies will generally produce clear mucus.
The symptoms of allergies, sinus infections and colds are all quite similar in many respects, though, which sometimes makes diagnosis challenging. The fact that your symptoms are worse at night is fairly common. Part of the problem is that you're lying down, so your sinuses can't drain into your throat as easily as they do during the day time when you're upright.
The only way to be sure, though, is to have a doctor examine you. So make that appointment!
To your improved health,
Kathi
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mucus that is yellow, green or brown is always a sign of infection.
when you wake up in the morning your symptoms are worse because
you have been lying down for all those hours, so when you get up the
secretions release and come out. they can be coming from your nose or even your chest, get it checked out you may need antibiotics for a sinus infection or
even a bronchitis or pneumonia.
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