When there is an upper respiratory infection or allergic rhinitis, there is often a lot of snot in the nasal cavity, how to clean up the nasal secretions? People will certainly think of blowing their nose and think that it is a common thing, but the number of people who can really blow their nose correctly is not necessarily as many as they think. If you don’t blow your nose correctly, not only will it fail to clean up the nasal secretions, but it can lead to other diseases.
We often see people holding toilet paper around their nostrils, then pressing both sides of the nose and forcefully blowing both sides of the nasal secretions on the toilet paper at the same time. In fact, this is a very wrong way. This way of blowing the nose is very easy to reverse the flow of nasal secretions with bacteria or viruses into the nasopharynx at the back of the nose, where there is a very important anatomical structure – the eustachian tube (the eustachian tube is the tissue that connects the nasal cavity to the middle ear cavity). Discharge with bacteria or viruses can easily enter the middle ear cavity through the eustachian tube, resulting in inflammation of the middle ear cavity. Inflammation can cause increased secretions in the middle ear cavity, but the secretions cannot be discharged smoothly through the inflamed eustachian tube, resulting in acute otitis media, which may lead to chronic otitis media as the disease progresses.
In fact, the correct way to blow your nose is to press the skin on the outside of one nostril (thus blocking the nostril) and blow the secretions from the opposite side of the nasal cavity with force. If possible, you can use water to clean around the nostrils.
Therefore, only through correct nose blowing and reducing the misunderstanding of nose blowing, so that the nasal cavity can be cleaned in the case of increased nasal secretions, while avoiding the occurrence of other diseases caused by nose blowing.