The chance that you are noticed or unnoticed to drill deeper into your nose than is right for you. Yes BIG... very big, even denying it makes no sense. I know you pick out the harsh crunchy truth. And you're not the only one. 91% of people show this primate behavior. The combination of having a finger and a nose leads to nose picking in primates (humans, monkeys and half-monkeys) almost automatically. And then 10% of those toddlers eats the loot found (mucophagia)- Yes. I just haven't found any research that shows that the preference is given to the hard crunchy Neushotel or the long-winded oyster variant the so-called Snotkogel.

Is nose picking deadly?

However, during my research I came across many articles that warns of the dangers of nose picking, even that it is potentially fatal. Now I've asked around, but with my friends and family, as far as people know, no one has died from the consequences of nose picking. #Isneuspeuterendodelijk

So how seriously should we really take such messages, with screaming heads that finger in your nose is deadly? Well, for that we first need to understand who the culprit is, theStaphylococcus aureusbacteria.

The who... oh you know him, but under the name “hospital bacteria. “ The bacterium is insensitive to treatment with meticillin and many other antibiotics. It occurs on the skin of humans and animals, in the lower part of the vagina and in the nasal cavity.