If you breathe in a bug, and it gets to your lungs, how can your lungs “get rid of” the bug carcass? Is it just trapped in there? Can lungs “digest” things? (Assuming you’re not coughing it back out)

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If you breathe in a bug, and it gets to your lungs, how can your lungs “get rid of” the bug carcass? Is it just trapped in there? Can lungs “digest” things? (Assuming you’re not coughing it back out)

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Answer 1

Your lungs will cover it in mucous and the push it back up. At a certain point you will cough and it will come up