I’ve been sick for about a week and I’m just now healing up. Why is it that I’m able to blow out gallons of snot every 5 minutes? Where is that coming from?
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Mucus is made from the mucins in goblet cells but ultimately it’s made up of mostly water, and your body is 70% water. It’s like making tea. Ultimately tea is mostly made up of water so as long as you have water and a few tea leaves you can make tea. Essentially you’re not going to run out of snot.
You have mucus glands inside your nose, as well as in the rest of your respiratory system, and in your digestive system too. One of the functions of mucus is to protect against things (like dust, viruses, fungi, and bacteria) to entrap and transport out of your body. When you’re sick, you generate mucus to help carry the infectious virus out of your nose, and this mucus can become thickened with cell debris, bacteria, and inflammatory cells. It happens in your lungs too, which you cough up as phlegm.
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