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from: Booger Man
8/13/01
11:18:26 AM
216.166.21.168

Get your finger outta there and bring your eyes over here - it's time for some booger basics. To really understand what boogers are, you need to make friends with mucus (say: myoo-kuss). Mucus is the thin, sticky, slimy material that's made inside your nose. If you're like a lot of kids, you have another name for nose mucus: snot. Your nose makes about a cupful of snot every day. The job of mucus is to serve and protect the lungs. When you inhale air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny particles, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these particles made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get damaged and it would be tough to breathe. Luckily, snot's on the scene, and it works by trapping the particles and keeping them in the nose After these particles get stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds them along with some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia. The mucus dries around the particles. When the particles and dried-out mucus 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 in top form! If you have got 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 dirt and germs and because poking around in your nose can make it bleed.

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