What Does The Colour of Your Mucus Mean? White / Yellow / Green / Red / Clear

When you have an allergic reaction, like from dust mites, your body goes into defence mode. One of the primary defence mechanisms your body has is mucus / snot / phlegm. 

The colour of your snot / mucus can tell you key meanings about your issue or dust mite allergy

What Does a Large, Thick Mucus Mean?

• Increased Amount of Mucus:  in your nose / throat / mouth. Your body makes more mucus to trap and dust mite particles from your airways.

• Thick Mucus Consistency: The mucus will be thicker and stickier. Thick and sticky mucus gets trapped in airways. This allows your body to stop the dust mite allergens from entering further into your body

• White Mucus Colour: White Blood Cells, are part of your immune system and rush to the scene of the dust mite allergen. As they gather in the mucus, they can change its colour to white. The more of these white blood cells, the more white your mucus will be. 

Do You Have a Dust Mite Allergy?

Do you ever have problems breathing, itchy skin or blocked nasal passage? If your symptoms are worse when your:

• Inside
• When you first wake up

Then you could have a dust mite allergy!

Read our 6-step guide to getting rid of dust mites - Click Here