When I was younger, my mom would always tell me to “cough and spit out that phlegm so that you won’t keep the bacteria in your system” or something along those lines. But wouldn’t your stomach acid kill the bacteria anyways if you do swallow it?
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It does, and it actually weakens the pathogen so the immune system gets a chance to learn how to kill it faster. Your mom was wrong.
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