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Is it bad to eat boogers?
Not if you want to end a bad date or just gross someone out.
I meant to ask if it was bad for your health.
Your nose has hairs intended to act like air filters. They catch a lot of dust and debris.
That’s not what snot is.
Snot is really mucus, but we use a simple word even a toddler could say. Snot is the
nasal secretions your body makes to catch and push out some of the stuff you don’t
like.
I heard a pediatrician say it isn’t a big deal, because when someone is sick, they are
swallowing snot produced by the upper nose. Then eating what is in the nose doesn’t
matter as much.
Except that the snot in the nose carries the virus they are already sick with plus any
germs inhaled in the nose. So you could end up being sick with two different things at
once.
That can’t happen.
Have you ever had pink eye and a cold at the same time? There are people with both ***
and Hepatitis C, or sad fools with two STDs at the same time.
So eating your boogers can make you sick.
And then there is the fact that we pick up germs with our hands, and you are putting
that gross gunk on your hand and in your mouth.
I get the point.
Then there’s the risk of picking the nose and triggering a nose bleed. Blood loss is
rarely ever good for you.
OK!
You’re the one who wanted to do what mothers everywhere have spent years conditioning us
not to do.
Why do kids do it in the first place?
They think it is easier or faster than learning to use a tissue.
And they don’t care if it is hygienic.
Hygiene and little kids are almost opposites.