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0energy0 · 03-07-2005, 03:37 PM

What really is a booger? How come they come in different colors and textures?

vinaur · 03-07-2005, 08:07 PM

The colors and textures come from what you inhale (all the stuff in air and such). The mucus is actually the plasma and all the dead antibodies, bacteria and viruses that get killed by your body during an infection or a disease. The mucus while you are not sick is just plasma, I think. This is just the way I always though of it, could be completelly wrong though.

NeoRete · 03-08-2005, 02:50 PM

Mucous secretions come from small glands in the epithelial tissue lining the respiratory tract. These glands are unicellular cells called goblet cells, because stained cross-sections look like goblets. Normally mucous combines with cillia (nose hairs) and traps foreign bodies until its moved to the back of the throat and swallowed. When we have a cold or flu, antihistanimes are released in the body which cause inflamation of our mucus lining and cause more mucus to be produced in an attempt to flush away the irritant.

A booger is just dried mucus (which has glycoprotiens) and anything that was trapped by the mucous. I can't remember why boogers turn green why you're sick (I think it's due to directly to immune response to infection, but hopfully someone can answer that).

03-07-2005, 03:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
0energy0 Insane Location: Title Town, USA	Mucus in Nasal Passages What really is a booger? How come they come in different colors and textures? __________________ Is the juice worth the squeeze?

03-08-2005, 02:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
NeoRete Crazy Location: Cape Cod	Mucous secretions come from small glands in the epithelial tissue lining the respiratory tract. These glands are unicellular cells called goblet cells, because stained cross-sections look like goblets. Normally mucous combines with cillia (nose hairs) and traps foreign bodies until its moved to the back of the throat and swallowed. When we have a cold or flu, antihistanimes are released in the body which cause inflamation of our mucus lining and cause more mucus to be produced in an attempt to flush away the irritant. A booger is just dried mucus (which has glycoprotiens) and anything that was trapped by the mucous. I can't remember why boogers turn green why you're sick (I think it's due to directly to immune response to infection, but hopfully someone can answer that). __________________ Charlie was a chemist but Charlie is nomore, what Charlie thought was H2O was H2SO4

03-07-2005, 08:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
vinaur Insane	The colors and textures come from what you inhale (all the stuff in air and such). The mucus is actually the plasma and all the dead antibodies, bacteria and viruses that get killed by your body during an infection or a disease. The mucus while you are not sick is just plasma, I think. This is just the way I always though of it, could be completelly wrong though.