![]() ![]() However, it is not always possible for patients to spit out this fluid to feel better. Postnasal drip fluids may also be yellow or green and have a foul odor in cases of sinus infections. Postnasal drip is usually white or slightly opaque in color, odorless in cases of post-viral upper respiratory tract infection, nasal sinusitis, rhinitis, or nasopharyngitis due to reflux. That makes patients feel uncomfortable, tired, inconvenient, and unconfident in communication. In other patients, they experience fluid drainage down the throat creating an irritation that causes itchiness, cough suddenly, and a prolonged cough. This makes them feel like a tumor entangled in the throat. Some patients even describe they have a feeling of phlegm in their throat but cannot cough. Patients may feel that the fluid is stagnant in the nasal cavity, or in the nasopharynx, which makes patients uncomfortable. Patients with postnasal drip have the feeling that the fluid flows from the two nasal cavities back to the nasopharynx, down the throat.
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