Is it true that if someone was to pick their nose and Eat their Boogers that it helps their immune system?

Answer 1

definitely, but you should put them in a bowl and add a little milk, or spread them on toast....

Answer 2

I've heard that it might be true.

I heard that eating the remnants of the bacteria and so on will make your immune system stronger. Vaccines, for example, actually have samples of the same disease (or a similar one) it protects against. It makes the immune system ready to fight the infection because it has already experienced it.

It's still gross, so I think I'll drink orange juice insteaad.

Answer 3

No. The mucus in your nose is mainly intended to keep bacteria away from your lungs, not your stomach. Stomach acid kills most (though not all) ingested pathogens, so if you ate your boogers, I think the stomach acid would just kill any bacteria, etc and you'd make no immune response at all. The immune response to inhaled versus ingested microbes is actually very different.

Answer 4

No way! lol
Anything that comes out of your nose has bacteria in it. Like when you get a cold and your nose starts running, that is bacteria, so eating it will make you sick.
Like someone said, all those little kids who eat your boogers seem to always be sick.

Answer 5

;-{} You gotta be kidding M`e,'E',e`.!?! ` BOogeR zsz.,. are: basically pretty much any bodily fluid mixed with ... yess more or possibly other bodily fluids... [[mu-cous]] Of,containing, or secreting mucus.,. 2 slimy much like mucous membrane: a mucus-secreting lining of certain body cavities !! ;-{ YuK,'R`'r.r`r`SOo "NOPE"!! As you can see or guess It's basically stuff like DIRT or dust that you've breathed in during any given day or night !! Possibly backed up from the pipes,heating or cooling system that blows air out-ward so those pipes & or air-ways collect DIRTY~DUST for the most-part.. or even that sOo,`called fresh air you'd breath in from being out-doors!?! So keep in mind it's mostly dust or dirt mixed with possibly fluids from your stomach,tear-ducts,liver & or whatever may be just parcially digested in your stomach !?! ;-{} '`R"r,r'r`r.'-

Answer 6

Eat it?

I don't know. I'd think it was not true coz of what is trapped in the snot, sometimes it's stuff a person is allergic to....

Answer 7

If it were so then who would have invented that form of medicine.I have seen alot of kids eating their boogies.
Are you going to try it?Let us know if it works.
That gives me the heebie geebees.nasty.

Answer 8

I doubt it, besides Flinstone vitamins taste better.

Answer 9

I think it is true, but who does that?!