Will picking your nose kill you? Picking your nose feels good for a while, but if you keep picking, you'll cry...

If you ask me why I like to pick my nose

Of course it's because it's so cool.

I believe many people have been addicted to the world of picking their noses.

When the nose is tickled and the heart is numb

Stretch out your fingers, dig, and hook

A piece of booger nimbly followed the "finger" out

Let's flick it with two fingers.

Boogers fly into the air

Integrate into the world

This whole set of movements is done in one go.

The moment the booger flew out

Everything is peaceful and the years are good...

However, nose picking is actually a dangerous activity

If you can't control the intensity and frequency

It is easy to cause an "accident"

Not only may tears and blood flow

May also cause respiratory infections

Worse still, it can lead to intracranial infection and bacterial invasion.

Life-threatening...

and

Picking your nose is just like farting.

It is a self-pleasure

The dilemma of public shame

So

How to be safe

And picking your nose elegantly?

Today we are going to talk about picking your nose

Talk through!!!

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How did boogers come about?

There is a large amount of nasal mucosa in the human nostrils, and the submucosal layer is rich in mucus glands and serous glands that can secrete mucus (mucus).

When dry air enters our nasal cavity, the nasal cilia will block larger dust and particles, and the capillaries on the nasal mucosa will also expand to discharge mucus to clean the nasal cavity. The dust, bacteria, particles and mucus on the nasal hair will mix and dry and become nasal mucus.

That is to say

Boogers are actually secretions from the nasal mucosa.

A mixture of dust and particles in the air

Mucus + dust, particles ≈ boogers

Knowing the birth of a booger

Then let’s talk about the happy harm of picking your nose

Picking your nose is really fun

Keep scratching and you will feel happy and shed tears

The dangers of nose picking may be beyond your imagination

1

Damage to nose hair can easily lead to respiratory infections

Nose hair is the last barrier for dust to enter the human body. It can block dust and pathogens in the air, thus preventing dust and pathogens from entering the respiratory tract and lungs with breathing movements, causing respiratory infections. Picking your nose will cause your nose hair to become damaged and reduced, which will reduce the body's resistance and increase the risk of respiratory infections. In addition, it will induce inflammation of the hair follicles.

2

Damage to the nasal mucosa, causing nose bleeding

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There are abundant capillaries on the nasal mucosa. Frequent and forceful picking or digging of the nose with hands can easily damage it, and in severe cases it can cause bleeding.

3

Reduces defenses and causes allergies

Frequent nose picking can make the nasal cavity sensitive, which increases the risk of bacterial infection and causes us to sneeze frequently, have allergies, etc. If you pick your nose without washing your hands, the risk of infection will be even greater if there are bacteria on your hands.

4

Infection of the brain, life-threatening

There is a blood vessel called the facial vein passing by our nasal cavity, and upward is the medial angular vein, which is connected to the cavernous sinus in the skull. Our fingernails usually carry a large number of bacteria. Once the nasal cavity is scratched and the nasal mucosa is damaged, it is easy to cause bacterial infection, and the infection is likely to retrograde to the cavernous sinus, inducing intracranial infection, which may be life-threatening in severe cases.

5

Causes rhinitis, more and more nasal mucus

If you pick your nose frequently, your fingers will irritate the skin of the nasal vestibule, which can easily lead to chronic vestibulitis, nasal follicle infection, etc., resulting in more and more nasal mucus, thus falling into a vicious cycle of nose picking.

6

Slightly indecent, affecting the image

If you pick your nose, all your beauty will be in vain.

Picking your nose is something that almost everyone has done, but few are willing to admit it.

On the one hand, we think it’s disgusting when others pick their noses, but on the other hand, we can’t help but pick our noses secretly.

Although this action feels great, it has always been considered indecent. Picking your nose in public will usually result in disdainful looks.

Read about the dangers of nose picking

Were you trembling with fear?

Put down your digging claws immediately?

So

When boogers "hang on the wall" in the nasal cavity

When you show off to us

Are we just going to have to endure its "itching"?

Of course not

We can do this↓

1. When you have nasal mucus, don't panic. Take out a cotton swab and dip it in some saline or water to soften the nasal mucus. Then gently remove the nasal mucus, or rinse it with a nasal rinser.

Although it's a bit troublesome

A little hypocritical

But this method is healthy

You can also

2. Use cold water to wash your face, external nose, or nasal vestibule (i.e. gently inhale a little cold water, limited to the nasal vestibule). If you are rinsing your nasal cavity, it is recommended to use warm salt water, or at least warm water.

Seeing this, some people may say

“I just can’t help it

I just want to have the pleasure of picking my nose."

What should we do then?

So first wash your claws.

Keep your nails trimmed

Then gently pick out the mucus.

And the frequency really can't be too much

If you still want to pick your nose elegantly

I suggest you keep your head down quietly.

Or go to a place where no one is and gently pick it up

Because you are elegant as long as no one notices...

However, for everyone's health and safety, I still want to remind everyone to try to control your hands and not pick your nose! Don't do it once...

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Author: Zhong Yanping

Review | Pang Yufeng, deputy chief physician of ENT department, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital

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