The habit of picking your nose: is it really that harmless?

It would seem, the habit of picking in the nose, well, what is so terrible, but if you do not get carried away with this activity in public and do not scratch the mucous membrane to the blood.

But what can lead to the picking of the hips, with what there are pneumococci and why children are at increased risk

Rhinothyllexomania or the habit of picking the nose.

Surprisingly, even for such a common habit as picking in the nose, there is its scientific name. True, so called the desire to "clean" the nose only when it becomes obsessive and it is not easy to refuse. In short, the real mania of picking in the nose.

The curiosity of American scientists led them to find out how many people were in favor of this habit, and it turned out that there were a lot of them (or us). It is not clear how scientists managed to get everyone to tell the truth and confess to this unsightly occupation, but the results of the survey are impressive: 91% of the time wonder what is there in the nasal passages, and 17% do it so regularly that you can consider this habit a serious problem.

Gates for pneumococci

Are the medics unhappy that picking in the nose leads? to damage to the nasal mucosa, this lesson opens up access to many infectious agents.
And one of the most dangerous is pneumococcus.

Pneumococcal bacteria, when they enter the nasopharynx, respiratory tract or blood, can cause many different and very unpleasant diseases in humans. From otitis and sinusitis to pneumonia and even meningitis.

The danger of pneumococcus is also that its various species (which number almost 90) are constantly present on the surface of the nasopharynx in 9 out of 10 people. Peaceful coexistence ends when immune defenses are reduced, and pneumococcus may well cause bacterial infection. And its severity is difficult to predict.

The prevalence of pneumococci on our planet in the human population is extremely high, in fact nine tenths of the population carry the infection.

Abandoning the habit picks in the nose

How to get rid of yearning picking in the nose?
The easiest thing is to just give up this bad habit.
But it's not that simple, because it helps to clean the nasal passages.
At first, it is very important to blink regularly, and it is necessary to mark each nostril separately.
In no case should not be marked out at the same time with two nostrils, it is very dangerous.
This can cause mucus to move to the ears and cause sinusitis or sinusitis.