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What Is Mucus?
When your nose runs, there is sticky things that is made inside your nose. It is called mucus. Mucus is actually good. It keep germs, dirt, and bacteria from getting into your lungs by stopping them in your nose. It helps your body get rid of infections.
There Are Several Reasons For Running
Crying
When you blink, your eyelids spread the tears over the surface of the eye. Sometimes tears flow over your lower eyelid, but mostly the tears flow down a tiny tube at the edge of your lower eyelid, next to your nose. This tube carries the tears to the back of your nose, and this is why your nose runs when you cry.
Allergies
Several people who have allergies get their nose run when they are around the allergen like animal hair or pollen. Their bodies react to the allergen like they are germs.
Having Cold
When you have cold, your nose makes mucus to keep germs out of your lungs and body. This mucus contained something that can make you sicker than you already are. So, this is the way your body protects itself.
Eating Spicy Food
To cook spicy food, chili is needed. Yes, of course chili causes hot in your mouth, water in your eyes and mucus in your nose. So, what does chili do to make your nose running? Chili contained the chemical capsaicin and allyl isothiocyanate which can irritate mucous membranes that protects your lungs and various body openings and cavities from infectious agents such as fungi, bacteria and viruses. The more irritated it becomes, the more mucus it produces as a defense.
Written by SAA
