Hard Mucus In Throat

The air in your room might be dry. When the air in my room is dry I have this problem. All I can say is try to keep moisture in your room a humidifier would help with that. To be on the safe side go see your doctor there might be infection in your throat.

Hi there,
if you are still interested to know what is the cause of what you called ' hard mucus'.

I had and still experience the same from time to time. I was told that are residue of food which are gathered in some holes on the throat.. Mine are visible... If you check your throat with a flashlight and say: aaaahhh you might be able to see them.. Especially when they are filled with food residues.

The bad smell these 'things' have is therefore self explanatory.

Now.. From time to time when I have the feeling of a full throat.. I squeeze it with my index finger and manage to get rid of the ' hard mucus' and feel fine again.

Ciao

These are called tonsilliths or tonsil stones - just google these terms and a lot of info will come up.

They are annoying but harmless from what I gather, they are bacteria that builds up on itself inside of your tonsils.

I freaked out the other night when I felt this hard lump on the side of my throat and soon found lots of these "stones" in my tonsil.

I am being super vigilant now - they can cause bad breath and are really gross!

I hope this helps.

I'm so glad i'm not the only one who has these so called "tonsil stones" my ent doctor has proven to be completly useless, at first he claimed the bits were food as well, which made no sense to me seeing as how the "stones" have always been the exact same shape, color, and size and obviously the food i'm eating is not! He then proceeded to tell me that it's hard mucus which makes sense but couldn't tell me how to stop it but that it was most likely the dry air causing it (it was winter at the time) but I then travelled to thailand for 5 monthes which is one of the most moist places on earth and I still had the same problem.

After dealing with this for almost 2 years i've learnt that you can extract these little things on your own so that you don't get any nasty suprises! If you take a q-tip and press on either sides of the opening to the gland you can push them out quite easily- sounds gross, and it is! But it works and if you're ever having a sore throat chances are this is your answer, just push those little guys out, gargle, and you'll most likely be better! I learnt this after having taken numerous different types of antibiotics over the span of a year or two, which is most likely going to damage my immune system for the future unfortunately!

Have fun!

Hi people:)
The gross "yellow stones" that you are coughing up is bacteria or pus and it is caused by some sort of infection...usually tonsilitis or something of that nature. Nine times out of ten if you are coughing up these little stones you would suffer from tonsilitis.....signs of tonsilitis would be the sore throat, swollen glands, possible fever and things of this nature....yes they are gross, and they can be coughed up....it's best to cough them up as opposed to go "digging" for treasure....you could cause more harm then good by sticking any type of objects into your throat The little home remedies of gargling salt and water will work only for a little while then it is right back to the drawing board....good luck.....I had the same problems before I had my tonsils removed

Nicole

Hi i have these all the time and wondered what they were. Ive had them since i was 7 years old. My mum took me to the docs thinking that i was coughing these things up from my lungs. I had a real bad case of neumonia (soz spelling) when i was 6 and thought this might have something to do with it. SO there i was 7 years old having xrays on my lungs with docs thinking i had TB, chest xrays came back clear and nobody ever found out what they were untill now 13 years on. Yes it is a build up of hard mucus in the throat hehe. PANIC OVER!
xxx