People happen to be odd about one thing in any country you go to and, that is they look in their Kleenexes. You can sit on a park bench in prime allergy season anywhere in the world and see people look in their Kleenexes after they blow their nose. It happens in the winter too. But honestly people know what's there, it's just human curiosity to look. It's like when someone tells you not to look and for some odd reason you don't listen and you do look and then you are scarred for life after that incident. Well in some ways that's what it's like for people with their Kleenexes and their snot. Plus a few of them even feel the need to share it with their friend or whoever they have with them what their snot looks like. So the conclusion is that people are fascinated with their snot. But to be honest snot (technically mucus) is fascinating to people who work in the medical field. Who knew?
Mucus has an honest important role medically. The gross goo that's produced by the mucous membrane, that lines your nasal passages and throat, helps medical personal diagnose a illness that you may or may not have. They (medical personal) happen to look at the color and (get this) texture of a person's snotty goo. Which seems gross to people but some people after they look they feel the need to show it to other people. Then that develops into a conversation that you would not believe between the two people.
It's hard to believe that the nasty goo in your nose and throat (It's produced in your nose to trap and catch bacteria and debris. It's produced in your throat to help not only catch bacteria and debris but to help you swallow your food.) is actually life saving and deserves more credit other than it just being gross and slimy. Snot is given a bad reputation, when it shouldn't. Even though, it's used to help diagnose a condition or early detection of something, it's also one of your bodies first lines of defense. It saves you from infectious bacteria and viruses. Snot is one of the most unlikely things we would think would save our lives everyday.
It's odd when I think about it because this whole blog started from the question of "Why do people look in their Kleenexes after they use them?" Normally it's just human curiosity. But the question sprang from the action I saw between two of my classmates in my American Literature class. When one person was looking in the Kleenex the other person had just used. So kudos to them because they inspired a really odd first blog.
