What happens when you don't want to get up and lie in bed and swallow phlegm from your mouth into your stomach?

Swallowing phlegm from your mouth into your stomach will not have any effect most of the time, but you will feel a little sick. This is because if the sputum is swallowed back, it will normally enter the esophagus, and the digestive juice in the esophagus will decompose various components of the sputum, thus eliminating its lethality. Even if the digestive juice can not completely decompose the substances in the sputum, the remaining small amount of harmful substances will be swallowed up by the immune cells of the body, so it will not cause obvious harm to the human body.

However, in a few cases, swallowing sputum back into the stomach can lead to major health problems. Sputum is a kind of self-protection liquid produced when trachea, alveoli and other tissues are badly stimulated. It can wrap all kinds of pathogens, inflammatory cells and dust that invade the human body in the air to protect the respiratory tract from these harmful substances.

Although under normal circumstances, all kinds of substances in sputum can be basically decomposed by digestive juice, when the digestive function of the body is not good, or the immune ability is low, the gastrointestinal tract can not effectively decompose sputum, and the immune cells of the body can not effectively fight against sputum, and the poisons in sputum will invade the digestive tract, causing inflammation and causing various digestive tract symptoms such as indigestion, abdominal discomfort and diarrhea.

In addition, in the process of swallowing sputum into the stomach, sputum may enter the bronchus and enter the lungs along the bronchus. Pathogens can damage bronchi and lungs, thus causing or aggravating respiratory inflammation. If you swallow sputum frequently, there are a lot of pathogens in sputum, which may also lead to tuberculosis.

It is suggested that it is best not to swallow phlegm into your stomach, but to cough it up as much as possible, wrap it in paper towels and throw it into the trash can. In the absence of paper towels, it is obviously a safer choice than swallowing sputum and spitting directly into the trash can. If you don't want to get up in bed, you can prepare paper towels and a sealed trash can by your bed before going to bed, so you can spit without getting up.