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Let's be honest, who isn't picking their nose? How else do you get dried up mucus out of there? By blowing it out?
by quelltext 4y ago
Let's be honest, who isn't picking their nose? How else do you get dried up mucus out of there? By blowing it out?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoI remember somebody with ALS explaining the indignity of somebody else having to pick their nose for them - at that point, I finally accepted everyone does it and made my peace with the guilt instilled in us as children.
- themitigating 4y agoYes
- Verdex 4y agoPerhaps later a more sophisticated study will come out that reveals that people who are not clever enough to hide their secret nose picking from researchers are at elevated risk.
- type0 4y agoNose picking and nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16874648/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16874648/
- gasull 4y agoWash your hands, get dry mucus out, wash hands again.
- causality0 4y agoSome people are just wet. My sister blows her nose several times a day and I've never needed to blow mine without having a severe respiratory infection.
- steve1977 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_(Hatha_Yoga) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_(Hatha_Yoga) For example (there‘s also non-Yoga variants of this of course)
- jbuhbjlnjbn 4y agoNot only everyone does it, nosepicking is instinctive behavior. Everything our body does for us (with maybe a handful of exceptions) is "healthy" for us, for survival of our genes, or best case, both. :)
- teeray 4y agoAs the old saying goes: “There are two types of people: those who pick their nose, and liars”
- Kye 4y agoSaline nasal spray helps a lot.