Boogers and Vomit

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The Facts

Boogers and vomit are gross, but both play a part in fighting germs (as unbelievable as that sounds). Boogers keep stuff from the air out of your lungs, while vomit kicks stuff out of your stomach that might make you ill.

Boogers

What are those green globs on your finger? Read on to find out. Boogers are basically ah Ah AH-CHOO mucus. To save you a trip to the dictionary, mucus is thin, slimy, sticky, green goop that coats the inside of your nose. (Gross!) Mucus has another name amongst kids, snot. Your nose makes about a cup of snot every day! Snot isn't just for grossing people out. It protects your lungs. You see, air has a lot of tiny pieces of junk floating around in it. If all that was left to get into your lungs, they would really hurt, so snot traps the junk. After the trapped junk and mucus dries together, presto chango you have a booger!

Booger Related Information

elaphant sneezes, LOUD! Recipes for non-edible stuff:
Snot= water, salt, and chemicals
A sneeze is like a booger ejection seat, if boogers, pollen, or pepper irritate delicate spots, it sends a message to the brain, which in turn tells the body to take a deep breath and fire boogers. They can fly at around 100 MPH.

Vomit

Vomit, just what is it? Read on. Vomit is when someone expels the contents of the stomach. You may have heard this instead of vomit: throw-up, upchuck, puke, gut soup, ralphing, chunder, heave, barf, boke, hurl, blow stomach area chunks, or spew. Some reasons we blow are: food that really doesn’t agree with us, eating spoiled food, roller coasters, and being really nervous. Here is how it happens:
1) Your stomach squeezes together and the valve connecting your Sometimes you vomit because you're sick. stomach to your throat opens.
2)The contents of your stomach raise up in your throat very quickly forcing open the valve that connects your throat to your mouth.
3) You hurl. Hurl is green from bile rising from the intestines. Barf tastes really bad because it is ½ acid and ½ partially digested food.

( I am not responsible for any vomiting or nausea that occurs while reading this report.)

Citations

Web Sites

"Discovery Channel" <http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/> (January,2004).

"Cleveland Clinic" <http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/> (January, 2004).

The Nemours Foundation. "KidsHealth for Kids" 1995-2004. <http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/> (January-February, 2004).

Book

Bernstein, Joanne E. and Paul Cohen. Dizzy Doctor Riddles. Niles, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company. 1989.

Images

Images of stomach, elephant, nose, sneezing man, and boy in bed from "Microsoft Office Online" <http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?cag=1> Images free for non-profit and personal use. (October-February, 2003-2004).

Punch Lines

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