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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Your entire body has bioweapons to handle invaders. If it’s a biological invader like a bug or a virus it will get attacked and ‘consumed’ by white blood cells. If it is non biological like a piece of metal or shrapnel the body tries to push it towards the surface of the skin to force it out.
The human body is the most amazing thing ever.
but what about that guy that breathed in a pine needle and had halitosis for life because it was just rotting in his lungs?
As your airways split off they also get narrower. There is a point at which a fly, living or dead, will be physically too large to go any further. Unless it 100% blocks air from going past, it should be easy to mechanically remove it by coughing.
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