When sick with a cold. Why is it you can blow your nose infinitely and your nose will still get near immediately clogged

Question

Does blowing your nose actually help with this at all? If I keep doing it, will it eventually stay open so I can breathe? Whats the purpose it just comes RIGHT back. I just want to sleep 🙁

Edit: What I learned is my nose has a boner which makes sense because I’m completely surrounded by sticky tissues.

I also learned that reddit got some pretty good otc medicine cold cures that are very helpful.

Overall thank you everyone.

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Answer 1

When you get a cold, your mucus goes crazy and into overdrive mode to try to shed the virus through the mucus. Your nose is also just generally inflamed from being sick which is part of that feeling as well.