Does eating your own mucus make you sick?

[MissDisorder]

Yeah.. my question is as the title states: Does eating your own mucus make you sick? I mean does it affect your general health?

The reason for my question is that i work in a nursery and constantly see the lovely little buggers pick their noses and eating it or the stuff simply runs from their nose into their mouth (mostly when its cold outside or/and they have a cold) and i just wanna know if it's bad for one to do. I'll go as far as saying that i know it dosnt affect you if you do it like once a year or something, but lets say someone has been doing it every day for their whole life

MissDisorder

ps. sorry if my writing isnt up to standard. English isnt my first language

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I nominate this as the worst first thread ever.

 

[Peregrinator]

I nominate this as the worst first thread ever.

Seconded.


In answer, no, it cannot make you sick. Anything in your mucus is already in your nose. Swallowing it exposes it to an extremely harsh acid environment.


Now, OP, post your tits sans mucus.

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

are you looking for recipes bro?

Stew

 

[mercury14]

Seconded.


In answer, no, it cannot make you sick. Anything in your mucus is already in your nose. Swallowing it exposes it to an extremely harsh acid environment.


Now, OP, post your tits sans mucus.

Mucous itself, no. However as a fluid designed to remove dirt and bacteria from membranes, it's possible that eating what's in the mucous could make you ill. Picking a big green booger in the morning and popping it down? Well you just ate a huge colony of bacteria. Stomach acid kills most of what's in it, but I'd be more concerned about it getting stuck in one's throat on the way down and setting up shop there. Maybe in a tonsil pocket or something.

Little faucet-nosed kids are probably producing mucous so fast though that it's "clean". But excessive mucous ingestion can still irritate the stomach.

 

[semen4her]

I like the dried on ones that you have to catch with your fingernail and pry it off.

When I worked in masonry I loved the boogs I'd get after a day of cutting.

 

[bronzeage]

Seconded.


In answer, no, it cannot make you sick. Anything in your mucus is already in your nose. Swallowing it exposes it to an extremely harsh acid environment.


Now, OP, post your tits sans mucus.

I move that internet connections be cut off in freshman dorms.

 

[hummermania]

In fact, this is entirely healthy if one wishes to ward off cold, flu, and many other airborne illnesses. That mucus is the filter and contains microscopic elements of many infections. Something like a vaccine when ingested.
Doctors will tell you this privately, if you know any that closely.

 

[RoryN]

The post content isn't anything like her. But the thread title is classic DollParts.

 

[Wrong Element]

Anyone else open this thread assuming Dolly had changed her username?

 

[garbage can]

In fact, this is entirely healthy if one wishes to ward off cold, flu, and many other airborne illnesses. That mucus is the filter and contains microscopic elements of many infections. Something like a vaccine when ingested.
Doctors will tell you this privately, if you know any that closely.

Good point, eating contaminated buggers could be just like a vaccine....