Let’s take a Magic School Bus ride and talk about boogers. I am not nearly as wacky and fun as the Frizz, but I have a bit of science behind why you should just look the other way when your kidLet’s face it, there is entirely too much stigma around booger eating.
I want to throw the bus in reverse for a minute and remind people that if you or your kids don’t remove the boogers from your nose, they are going to travel to the stomach anyway. The stuff in our nostrils has to go somewhere, so if not out the front, then the mucus will go to the back of our nasal passage and down the throat and into our stomach.
reports, “There’s even evidence that the mucus could help prevent respiratory infection, stomach ulcers, and HIV.” Here’s the thing: If you or your kiddo are pulling immunity-building boogers out of the nose, there is a chance you are putting bad bacteria in too. Nose pickers were found to have more