TMI!

[deird1]

Either my nose is secretly a Tardis, or human noses in general have an amazing storage capacity.

A few weeks ago, I spent over a month with a continuous cold, whereby I could eject so much snot in one blow that I'd instantly use up a tissue - and then use up another tissue THIRTY SECONDS LATER.



And tonight? Coughing reflex (overactive thanks to whooping cough*) kicked in while in the middle of eating soup, thus giving me a mouthful (and noseful) of vomited food. And half an hour later, I was still blowing my nose and ejecting lentils.

WHERE ARE THEY ALL BEING STORED? HOW THE HELL DOES MY NOSE CONTAIN THAT MUCH STUFF? AND IS IT TRULY BIGGER ON THE INSIDE, AND IF SO, WHEN WILL I DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO TRAVEL THROUGH SPACE AND TIME?


* All you people who refuse to vaccinate your children? Thanks so much for taking away my herd immunity. No, really. I'm just so thrilled.




And really - I did warn for grossness. So don't complain; it's your own fault for clicking...

Comments

[vass]

Whooping cough seems to be all over the country at the moment: bookgirlwa has it too, and she's as far from Melbourne as you can get without crossing water.

My nose also contains a TARDIS. Or maybe some sort of inland lake. I'm expecting to honk out goldfish any minute now.

[deird1]

Actually, this whooping cough happened two years ago - and seems to have permanently made my cough reflex ultra-sensitive. It sucks.

[velvetwhip]

You poor thing.

Gabrielle

[redsixwing]

Ouch, food up the nose is never a good sign. (A friend of mine has, apparently, particularly impressive storage capacity. We do not discuss the Pickle Incident.)

I'm convinced that human sinuses take up most of what we consider to be brain space, and have an incredible capacity for generating snot at rates that would make a factory proud.

[bobthemole]

Meet your nasopharyngeal cavities! They have a volume of 30 to 45 cubic centimeters! That's like a shot glass worth of mucus when you're properly stuffy.

http://www.mendeley.com/research/nasal-cavity-volume-nasopharyngeal-cavity-volume-adults-measured-acoustic-rhinometry/