Edit: y’all, didn’t you know we have two noses and one nostril sheesh 🤧
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An ELI5 answer:
Your nose has 2 nostrils, but if you pay close attention when you sniff air in, you’ll notice you only use one at a time. You can feel which one air comes out of when you blow the air out.
Your sinuses are the parts behind your nose, inside your face, where your snot is made. Sometimes they push the snot out through your nose, like when you blow into a tissue, so there’s a little door up there to get that stuff out.
Think of your sinuses kind of like an hourglass. When you’re standing up, they both have some stuff in them. When you lay on your side, all the stuff goes into the bottom one and covers the “exit door”, so it blocks that nostril, which is fine, since we only use one at a time anyway. It’s just more uncomfortable, since it’s blocked and not just turned off.
To unblock it, you lay on the other side and wait. Just like an hourglass you flip over, all the junk in your sinuses will slide to the other side because of gravity. Then your other nostril is blocked and the first one opens back up.
Also why does this reverse during orgasm (the side facing down unblocks)?
Uhhhhh I never knew….this works???
your body does this normally all day long. It alternates nostrils to give the other one a break.
ELI5: how is life with a right nose and left nose?
Wait…you all have 2 noses?
If you look at the biological making of the right notrifical of the nose, you will begin to realize it is a beautiful specimen. Firstly, the angular torsion of the right notrifical is perpendicular to the solar system’s heatwave… I HAVE NO IDEA TO BE HONEST!
How many noses do you have? I only have the one.
I used to have this issue, along with migraines and bowel irritability. Then I realized one day that I’m lactose intolerant. Started drinking lactose free milk and my sinus problems are gone along with the other issues. It is so nice to not have migraines any more! And sinus problems! And bowel problems!
It does seem like I have 2 noses. I have no idea, my nose is not plugged up at all, but for all my life my left nostril does nothing and only my right breathes in and out. I just tested it right now, put my finger under my left nostril and breathed heavily…. nothing at all. Put my finger under my right nostril and breathed heavily, totally could feel it.
I mentioned it to my doctor before and he said that doesnt make any sense, so I shut up thinking I was stupid.
But really, my ENTIRE life I remember this. Only 1 nostril will work, and its always only the right one. Makes no sense. I do have only 1 lung, but seriously, each nostril doesnt go to a single individual lung, right? Me having only 1 lung cant possibly cause only one nostril to work? Can it….?
I am still perplexed.
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