where do boogers come from?

Question

I keep picking them out and they are back the next day!! :(

Answer 1

To understand what boogers are, you need to know about mucus (say: myoo-kus). Mucus is the sticky, slimy stuff that's made inside your nose. If you're like lot of kids, you have another name for nose mucus: snot. Your nose makes about a cupful (about 237 milliliters) of snot every day.

Mucus has a pretty important job - it protects the lungs. When you breathe in air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny things, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get irritated or infected, making it be tough to breathe. Luckily, snot helps trap this stuff, keeping it in the nose and out of the lungs.

After this stuff gets stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds it and some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia (say: sih-lee-uh). These hairs help move the mucus and the trapped stuff toward the front of the nose or the back of the throat. When the mucus, dirt and other debris dry and clump together, you're left with a booger. Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. Everybody gets them, so they're not a big deal. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working the way it should!

If you have to get rid of boogers, your best bet is to blow 'em out of your nose and into a tissue. Picking your nose isn't a great idea because boogers contain lots of germs and because poking around in your nose can make it bleed

Answer 2

'Boogers' are tiny pieces of brain matter. Your brain is like any other organ....it grows and sheds dead matter. This dead matter passes through the sinus cavities and exits via the nasal cavaties (or at times via the oral cavities as 'loogies'). Don't worry. It's perfectly normal. It is NOT a sign of disease.

If you notice a large amount of 'bloody boogers' .....please call a doctor as this is a sign of subdrual hematoma....a very serious condition of the brain.

Answer 3

Boogers are harden liquids that have trapped particles that enter your nose (dust,germs)

Answer 4

I dont know try ask the magic nose goblins that live in your nose.

Answer 5

Here's a website that can help with your 'interesting' question! http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/booger.asp

Answer 6

snot, dust and crap you get breathing through your nose

Answer 7

these are the questions that haunt me.......lol

Answer 8

what he said??