What is the point of a booger. What use does it have on the human Body. Is it unheathy to digest. Why does your nose run when your cold?
2006-12-19 15:12:49 · 3 answers · asked by Sebastian S 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
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.
2006-12-19 15:20:23 · answer #1 · answered by Deana G 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
How Are Boogers Made
2016-12-18 18:26:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Is A Booger
2016-11-01 11:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "booger" is nothing more than the dirt and small debris in the air that has been trapped by the mucus in your nose. Your nose produces mucus and the mucus is their to help stop and trap harmful dirt and debris that is in hailed through the nose. It would be like rubbing oil on your hands, and anything you came in contact with would stick to the oil and once that layer of oil dried you'd have some dirt or stuff in it. All it simple is ,is like an air filter. No its not unhealthy to digest, yes it is gross as all get out , but not unhealthy. It's just something your body produces naturally. Your nose runs when its cold because the same oils in your nose dry extremely fast when its cold and your body has to try to keep the oils or fluid in those glands to produce the oils. I know very wordy , but I hope I've helped.
2006-12-19 15:24:34 · answer #4 · answered by R J 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
booger is not that gross if you think about it. Many people think that swallowing booger is nasty and can make you sick, but really it won't do anything to you. Some people have a bad habbit of swallowing booger so just to let you know if you like to swallow booger heads up, its ok
2015-06-20 02:30:36 · answer #5 · answered by osi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lowly booger is natures way of draining your sinus cavities in an efficient disposable manner. Your nose runs when it is cold because it wants to be warm and stop up the orifices with boogers.I suppose the more technical term would be "solidified mucus".
2006-12-19 15:23:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a booger is actaully a nasal cavity. it helps warm ur nose and the air which u breath out working with cilia in your nose. its relaay gross.
no if u digest it nothing will happen
2006-12-19 15:15:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Dead parts of your brain.
2015-02-06 15:27:54 · answer #8 · answered by Jeremy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋