What makes up the common booger?
While the closest thing the booger has to an "official" term is the ever so boring term "Dried Mucus", they are really quite interesting. Boogers are made up of 95% Water, 3% Mucin (a lubricati...
What makes up the common booger?
While the closest thing the booger has to an "official" term is the ever so boring term "Dried Mucus", they are really quite interesting.
Boogers are made up of 95% Water, 3% Mucin (a lubricating gel like protein), and 2% other particles. Medical equipment is sometimes coated in Mucin because of its amazing ability to destroy biofilms.
The booger is formed when the air we breathe dries out the mucus in our nose, hence the term “Dried Mucus”. Mucus is the essential component that ensures foreign particles do not enter our lungs. It also acts as a conductor between particles and the nasal lining helping us smell. One recent study showed that mucus not only enhances our ability to smell, but affects how we smell as well.
Without boogers (dried mucus) we would have little to no protection against all the dangerous microbes we breathe in and the world would smell really weird… thanks boogers!
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