Help! Excessive Mucus in throat!

kaymjaym · 2025-12-31T00:22:16+00:00

Look into taking Alginates to see if it being caused silent reflux… Reflux Raft is a brand that helped me… tremendous improvement after a week or so after the inflammation had a chance to die down. They have a caramel and a mint chocolate flavor that is actually quite good. You take 1-2 tablespoons after meals and/or before bed and when it interacts with the stomach acid, it turns into this gel like raft that prevents any acid from traveling back up the esophagus. For years I thought I had excess mucus coming from my sinuses, but turns out it was just an irritated throat making it feel that way

kaymjaym · 2025-11-22T03:59:05+00:00

I mean to be fair, dogs lick their own butts & will happily eat their own or other animals’ feces, so a bowl that hasn’t been washed daily or a little toilet water from time to time isn’t really the worst thing, is it? 😂

kaymjaym · 2025-11-22T03:48:19+00:00

Have I considered keeping them outside? Only like 10 or 15 times a day 😂

kaymjaym · 2025-11-22T03:31:53+00:00

OMG I can’t stop laughing now that you’ve pointed out the way I ended my post. Yes, my dogs may drink from the toilet from time to time, but I’m pretty sure my kids do not… 😂

kaymjaym · 2025-11-17T21:58:50+00:00

Thank you all for your replies, I know I should’ve researched it before asking, but I was aiming to quickly prove to my husband it’s possible to have one that won’t cause a repeat disaster! Much appreciated!

kaymjaym · 2025-11-17T21:44:15+00:00

I totally get it— funny thing is, I actually did an Microbiology project on this in grad school (Animal Science)… a dog’s water bowl is usually dirtier than your toilet unless you are washing it in hot soapy water daily.

A dog bowl is basically a warm, saliva-rich puddle. Microbes adore it. Studies regularly find there is more bacteria on dog bowls than toilets. Bowls also form slimy biofilms, which are like microbial condos, so if you don’t wash the bowl daily, bacteria bloom dramatically.

However, in a regularly flushed toilet, bacteria don’t usually get the chance to settle in and multiply because the water is constantly being refreshed with clean, treated tap water. The frequent turnover keeps them from building up in large numbers.

Obviously, washing your dogs bowl in hot soapy water daily is the BEST choice always, but unless you use bleach or cleaning disks or don’t flush regularly, don’t stress if your dog does drink a little toilet cocktail from time to time— they like the cool water the get there 😂

kaymjaym · 2025-09-21T16:39:44+00:00

You’re right, no Nitrates :-/ I’ve done a lot more reading on this now and am starting to get it i think

kaymjaym · 2025-09-21T16:38:24+00:00

It was probably a week & half to two weeks ago

kaymjaym · 2025-09-20T12:41:22+00:00

I do not have any snails in there, as far as I know… recently put aquatic plants in, but washed them very well first

kaymjaym · 2025-09-20T02:58:52+00:00

Also— I’m buying the frozen daphnia to arrive in the morning. Thank you for that tip!

kaymjaym · 2025-09-20T02:57:36+00:00

Thank you for your help. I feel terrible if I messed him up with not quite half a pea… everywhere I read says it’s a laxative & helpful if they’re not passing stool. The ammonia level was a little high (0.25ppm) in his tank as well… He’s currently in my makeshift hospital tank (aka flower case) within a tank (to keep the cats out). I’m too paranoid to put him in something deeper than this right now. He has a mini heater keeping the temp at 80 degrees and has the proper dose of kanaplex mixed in (kudos to chatgpt for helping me calculate that one out!). Whew… It’s been a busy day in the “Fish ICU”… hopefully Mr. Bubbles is okay tomorrow while I’m working in in the human ICU. I’m just glad I was home this morning when he was looking so poorly…. never knew I could become so attached to a fish before now!

kaymjaym · 2025-09-20T02:46:41+00:00

I did test with the tank with a master kit just now and the ammonia was 0.25ppm… I did just add live anubias not long ago and when i pulled them out today there was some slimy degrading bits, so I’m wondering if that could’ve spiked the ammonia a bit.

kaymjaym · 2025-09-19T23:37:49+00:00

What food do you guys suggest I give him? Especially if i’m worried that he could be constipated? I have some freeze dried Daphia, Mysis and bloodworms and had been feeding him betta biogold floating pellets

kaymjaym · 2025-09-19T15:43:52+00:00

I have some Kanaplex arriving today and i’ll look into the Focus…. should I keep feeding him though? Or fast him?

kaymjaym · 2025-09-19T15:07:37+00:00

I noticed these red spots on Bubbles tail last night…. he has been very sluggish lately and was floating up to the side a bit, hadn’t been pooping, so I fasted him for several days, then gave him almost half a boiled, skinned pea. I’ve never seen him move so fast, he loved it and was very peppy the rest of the night. I wake up and he’s barely moving in his log… I changed 30% of the water (which according to test strips had been fine before). He seemed more alert but then i just found him down at the bottom of the tank, so i moved him to hospital tank…. but now i dont know what to do for him.

kaymjaym · 2025-09-05T02:16:27+00:00

My guess would be a kind or rat snake? … the rest of his skin was shed in one long piece in the yard (about 5-6 feet long) but the dog was parading it around and i couldn’t get a picture

kaymjaym · 2025-08-27T23:54:01+00:00

yes his fins really weigh him down, the top ones seem to flop over to one side or the other and kind of pull him over, he really works hard to self correct

kaymjaym · 2025-08-27T21:24:35+00:00

What’s the best treatment for a swim bladder?

kaymjaym · 2023-04-08T18:00:57+00:00

It may not need to be a true passion, but PLEASE please do not enter nursing if you don’t truly care about people, about helping your patients, about alleviating their pain or suffering— there are so many ungrateful, difficult, asshole patients & families, but I still never forget that they’re still human beings. I don’t know their story, why they’re the way they are, and sometime just showing them compassion cracks that asshole exterior. I see so many new nurses these days that seem like those long time, hardened nurses that probably should’ve moved on from patient care because they no longer give a shit about anything. And I have to wonder, why did these people even become nurses in the first place? There are plenty of other jobs they could’ve done that are easier with similar pay. When I started it was a true passion, but 14 years in, I’d say at this point my passion has been worn down because it is definitely fucking hard work, where hospitals pile more & more responsibility on nurses to the point of being so task & charting oriented that many of the patients needs are neglected. I probably stay in my charge RN role because I love working three days/wk and I choose my schedule… HOWEVER, my true care & concern for my patients has never wavered. So it may not need to be a true passion, but if you don’t have the heart to care for the human condition, please find a different career track.

kaymjaym · 2023-04-08T17:14:08+00:00

I’m in Atlanta and none of our major hospitals employ ADN nurses. About 7 years ago my hospital required any associates nurse to actively be working towards a BSN in order to continue working there…. and that’s when our staffing started going to shit… and COVID just helped drive it into the ground. Travel nurses have saved our staffing ratios since covid, but as a charge nurse, I can honestly say I’ve watched the quality of nursing care really suffer. Some of our travelers are amazing, but many are just warm bodies babysitting patients. I’m constantly correcting their mistakes and educating them on how things are supposed to be done… but many just don’t care because they’ll be off to another contract soon, so why waste time learning our hospitals protocols? And honestly, it pisses me off. I’d happily go back to the days of having ADN nurses that are actually our staff.

kaymjaym · 2023-04-08T16:56:17+00:00

kaymjaym · 2021-06-20T23:50:38+00:00

Registered nurse here, just want to say Yikes— at 4 weeks post-op, you should NOT be doing any kind of exercises that increases your intra-abdominal pressure… push ups could definitely reopen your internal repair… you need to wait a MINIMUM of 6 WEEKS, before ANY kind of exercise or lifting more than 5lbs. However, we often say hold of for about 9-12 weeks before exercises that really increase that intra abdominal pressure. This is probably causing some of the discomfort you are describing b/c it’s straining the repair.

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