• Question: when you sneeze why do we get a tickle in are nose???

    Asked by sophie7 to Robert, Susanne on 23 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Robert Insall

      Robert Insall answered on 23 Nov 2012:


      Sneezing is your body telling you your breathing tubes might be getting blocked and you’d better clear them out. That’s why snot flies out of your nose if you have a cold and you sneeze (sorry, ick).

      Did you know snot is mostly your own immune cells? I had a horrid cold once and looked at my own snot under the microscope. Awesome.

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