Pain in left lower stomach for a while with a recent episode of blood in mucus while spitting. Please help.

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Well, I must ensure you that you are too young to develop any serious thing within your lungs or upper respiratory tract because of that much smoking. I am wondering if you could tell me how many years you have been smoking? and what is the number of cigarettes per day? And do you have a habit of drinking alcohol as well? Since this information will help us to assess the stage of insult to the lungs and upper respiratory tract after smoking.

Now the blood in mucus/sputum can be secondary to certain possibilities, commonly associated with the smoking.

1. Inflammation of the upper respiratory tract namely pharyngitis, laryngitis, or epiglottis. These are all parts of the upper respiratory tract and can be inflamed with the use of smoking.

2. Inflammation of the lower respiratory tract namely tracheitis and bronchitis and lastly the involvement of the lung tissues.

3. Esophageal (food pipe) ulcers which can commonly occur secondary to smoking.

I highly think, that you have upper respiratory tract inflammation secondary to smoking and this should resolve once the effects of smoking will go away. Only thing you have to do is continue stopping smoking.

I suggest some inflammatory and anti-allergic medication to help with your spitting and blood. You can take Aspirin gargles. Take one tablet of mini Aspirin 75 mg and dissolve in 200 ml of water. Do gargles of this. Tablet Kestine 10 mg once daily for seven days, capsule Esomeprazole 40 mg half an hour before meals. This is an acid suppressant medication that would help to heal any ulcers/or inflammation within your food pipe.

You can get an x-ray chest with PA (posteroanterior) view just to make sure if everything is alright within the lower respiratory tract.

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I can very well understand your concern about the x-ray. But x-ray chest gives only a small fraction of radiation and usually people do not get harm with such small radiations nor they impact on any short term or long term complications. On the cost of small radiation, we probably may know about the status of your lung. This will help us in short term management of your current problem. So I suggest you to consider doing it.

Well, water intake is essential for life. It help humans in many different ways. But I do not think that low water intake would have caused your current symptoms. If you were taking a small amount of water, I suggest you to take at least two liters of water at least in a day. This is required to maintain our basic metabolic rate of the body.

Thankfully you geared to stop taking whiskey and smoking. They are both harmful to your health. You know smoking and the weed can cause 100 different problems in your body. The top of which is shortened overall life span. On this note, I brotherly advise you not to think of smoking again. I know this must be a hard time for you, but you can ask for help from an addiction specialist in your city. They may provide you some something to curtail your craving for smoking and alcohol.

Alcohol however is harmful to health, but a moderate alcohol intake say 1 to 2 drinks of beer (no more than 10 -20 gm of alcohol) would not cause much trouble otherwise. But smoking, particularly weed smoking is injurious to health at all instance and should be avoided at all cost.

I hope this helps.