Don't Blow Your Nose!
Don't Blow Your Nose!
#1Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 12:42pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/health/10real.html?no_interstitial
Blowing your nose to alleviate stuffiness may be second nature, but some people argue it does no good, reversing the flow of mucus into the sinuses and slowing the drainage.
Counterintuitive, perhaps, but research shows it to be true.
To test the notion, Dr. J. Owen Hendley and other pediatric infectious disease researchers at the University of Virginia conducted CT scans and other measurements as subjects coughed, sneezed and blew their noses. In some cases, the subjects had an opaque dye dripped into their rear nasal cavities.
Coughing and sneezing generated little if any pressure in the nasal cavities. But nose blowing generated enormous pressure — “equivalent to a person’s diastolic blood pressure reading,” Dr. Hendley said — and propelled mucus into the sinuses every time. Dr. Hendley said it was unclear whether this was harmful, but added that during sickness it could shoot viruses or bacteria into the sinuses, and possibly cause further infection.
The proper method is to blow one nostril at a time and to take decongestants, said Dr. Anil Kumar Lalwani, chairman of the department of otolaryngology at the New York University Langone Medical Center. This prevents a buildup of excess pressure.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Blowing your nose can create a buildup of excess pressure in sinus cavities.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 12:59pmAnd not blowing your nose can create a buildup of excess snot on your sweater.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:00pm
Never kiss yer honey
When yer nose is runny
You make this is funny
But is not
Updated On: 2/10/09 at 01:00 PM
#3re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:01pmEwwww. A boogie thread.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#5re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:06pmThis is why I pick my nose and wipe it on the person next to me.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#6re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:07pm
AAAAAAAHHHHHH!
You are the grossest Doodle!
I feel like I'm in third grade again....good times.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#7re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:10pm*reminds self never to sit next to doodle*
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:11pmI use a neti pot, which drastically reduces the amount of nose blowing I do.
#9re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:12pmDoesn't matter where you sit, for some us the Pick and Flick method.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#11re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:18pm
Waste not, want not.
Pick your nose and EAT IT!
#12re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:21pm
stopitstopitstopitstopit!!
You're all grossing me out! (*runs screaming from the room*)
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#13re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:22pmoh ew ew ew
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:28pmSpeaking of boogers- my cat gets these ginormous eye boogers- big booger-like globs that collect at the corner of his eye. When he's got a big one, he jumps up in my lap and I pick it for him- and he eagerly gobbles it up from my fingertip! It's a touching, lovely moment between a human and his cat!
#15re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:30pmJoe, ever try to taste it yourself? Might heighten the moment.
#17re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:33pm
All this grossness reminds me of a boy on the bus in elementary school who used to flip his eyelids inside out. Totally freaked me out.
Back to the I love being a girl thread where we discuss civilized things like our periods and what we like to call our coochies.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:36pmSNAFU, he would NEVER forgive me! Once, when I was eating trail mix from a bag that LOOKED like the one his treats came in, he was pissed for a week.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#20re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:38pmHey stockard...isn't your show on???
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#22re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:44pm
Ah!!!
#23re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 1:51pm
WHY DID I OPEN THIS THREAD!!!!!!!
Im gonna throw up..
#24re: Don't Blow Your Nose!
Posted: 2/10/09 at 4:42pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
This is worse than sitting next to the kid who wipes his boogers on the desk and doesn't wear deoderant!
I blow my nose a lot. Maybe that's why I have so many nosebleeds.
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