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Mucus is not widely considered a topic for polite conversation. It’s something to be discreetly blown into a tissue, folded up, and thrown away.
But the simple truth is that without mucus, you wouldn’t be alive.
“Mucus is essential for the protection of your body,” says Jeffrey Spiegel, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon at Boston University. “It’s a protective barrier and it allows you to breathe comfortably. If you had no mucus, you’d be quite sorry you didn’t.”
Given how important mucus is — and how often colds and allergies cause mucus-related symptoms — it’s worth learning a bit more about it.
1) You produce about 1.5 quarts of mucus a day — and swallow the vast majority
Most of us think of mucus as something that leaks from our nose, but the truth is that it also gets secreted in your trachea and other tubes that carry air through your lungs, where it’s technically called phlegm. Wherever it’s produced, mucus is a mix of water and proteins, and most of it gets pushed to the back of your throat by microscopic hairs called cilia.
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Mar 16, 2023 @ 05:37:51
nice information.
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Mar 17, 2023 @ 00:51:12
Thank you!
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