Why are people who like to pick their noses smarter?

People who pick their noses are smarter, which experts in China call bullshit.

Recently, a news about "digging nose excrement" became popular on the Internet. A Canadian expert said that studies have shown that massaging the nasal mucosa with fingers can stimulate the brain. Over time, people who like to pick their noses will be smarter than those who don't. As soon as the news came out, netizens reacted enthusiastically to "digging nose excrement", saying that "digging" is healthier.

It is reported that Naber, an associate professor in Canada, said that snot can catch bacteria and prevent them from entering the lungs. If you eat booger and expose your body to these bacteria, it may actually help enhance your immunity. This can train our immune system. So this is almost a natural inoculation.

In this regard, Xiao Ping, the attending physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Guangdong Second People's Hospital, said that this is totally nonsense and impossible. He explained that human nose hair can filter and clean the inhaled air. People often pick their nostrils, which is easy to damage the hair follicles in the nasal cavity. Therefore, bacteria and harmful dust can directly enter the lower respiratory tract, causing lower respiratory tract infection, serious cases can cause nosebleed, and cause localized acute suppurative inflammation of nasal hair follicles, sebaceous glands or sweat glands.

People often have a lot of dirt under their nails, including countless germs; Nails are hard and sharp. When picking the nose, a little carelessness will damage the skin, liver or mucosa of the nasal vestibule, causing bleeding, and directly introduce bacteria into the wound, causing nasal furuncle; Repeated rubbing and digging will cause the spread of bacteria, which is even life-threatening to the elderly and infirm.