When you have a runny nose/cold, where does all that never-ending snot come from?
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Snot or more generally “mucus” is formed from relatively small amounts of proteins along with a bunch of water. If you let mucus dry out you can see that it is about 95% water.
Special glands produce mucus from proteins and water pulled from the blood. You need to drink more water when sick because you are losing more than usual through such excretions.
Basically your body tries to trap any bacteria of viruses into the snot so it doesnt harm the rest of your body. Tldr is its a defense mechanism
Your face has a big cavity in it not like the kind you get in your teeth but like a hole. And it’s called your sinuses.
Your nose is how mucus comes out when you’re sick if you’re healthy and feeling good it normally goes down your throat with out you ever knowing.
Your sinuses go in to your forehead and your cheeks and behind your nose and all of it can make snot.
Be sure to drink lots of water if you get sick because make all that snot needs lots of water and it helps keep you healthy.
Have a good day now munchkin.
And why does it feel like I’ve delivered a good 1/2 pint of snot into the tissue, only to find it’s hardly anything at all?
As an aside: On cold days when your nose gets cold it can actually get cold enough for the moisture in your own breath to condensate on it’s way out of your nose (or moisture from the air when breathing in) the further your nose is away from your face the more of an issue this becomes..
I have a decently sized schnoz so if it’s cold out I carry tissues regardless of if I am sick or not!
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