How does a bacterial infection turn mucus green?
Monday, September 21st, 2009 at
2:58 am
I’ve got a cold and I have the green snot, so I know I have both a viral common cold and a bacterial infection. How does the bacteria actually change the color of the mucus?
Filed under: Bacterial Vaginosis
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
To be more speicific they are dead neutrophils.
It is the dying macrophages in the white blood cells that causes this. They have done their job and then die off.