Mucus Plug

[pecurls]

I was unable to breathe, wound up in the ER and after 4 hours on a nebulizer I coughed up a disgusting mucus plug. Now the doctors say I have asthma. Can this be? Is a mucus plug (that had blocked my airway) a sign/symptom of asthma?

[oldwoman]

There are several baddies that can be gotten from rat droppings.
Hanta virus for one, was a problem on indian reservations in the four corners area a few years ago.

One of the others is a fungal disease called histoplasmosis (probably not spelled that way.) Histo is a real baddie and hard diagnose from what I have seen, however I think they have some new reaction markers for it, the lab mixes the culture with the marker and it lights up in spots or turns a certain color or some other indication that indicates weather the histo is positive,.

[Namaste]

Have you tried contacting your local poison control center? May be they can help you or give you some where to go.