Nose - the guard of the lungs

Not only is the airway, nose also eliminates pathogens that enter the body through the respiratory system. If you have a stuffy nose and must breathe through your mouth, the injected air will not be cleaned.

You must have severe flu once to understand the importance of the nose. At that time, the edema nose congestion and watery girth, severely affect the quality of life, causing fatigue, no breathing, no sleep and sluggish people. Your nose has many functions:

- Filter all air and all small objects such as pollen with 100% efficiency.

- Moisten the air that you inhale, providing additional moisture to the inhaled air to prevent drying of the lining in the lungs and windpipe.

- Warm cold air to body temperature before air reaches the lungs.

For these reasons and many other reasons, nose activity is essential for the body. Give your lungs a meaningful gift by taking good care of your nose. Not caring about symptoms such as sneezing, watery or green nasal discharge can aggravate lung problems and lead to other diseases.

When you have a stuffy nose, you must breathe through your mouth. This condition will prolong dry mouth, increasing the risk of mouth-throat infection and reducing tongue taste perception. Mouth breathing also causes pollutants and bacteria to enter directly in the lungs. Dry air into the lungs causes the secretions to become thick, reducing the rate of cleaning of the hair in the lungs, slowing oxygen into the blood.

If the nose is dry, many important functions will be affected. Therefore, it is advisable to wash the nose with saline to release the solid secretion.

Anti-inhaled drops that you buy yourself at the pharmacy if you take them for a long time (more than seven days) can damage your self-cleaning mechanism of your nose and sinuses. Decongestants (anti-edema drugs) can cause "greasy" and make your nose become more and more stuffy.