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Why does a nose run when you have a cold?

Why does your nose run when you are cold?

  • This has been bothering me for a while, since things tend to solidify with cold, not liquify.

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    When you're outside on a cold day, the air in your nose is a lot warmer than the air around you. You know how the bathroom gets steamy when you take a shower? Something similar happens in your nose - water drops come together, or condense. Then the drops mix with your mucus and run out your nose.

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Your nose run in cold weather mostly as a response to keep the air you inhale humidified and partly due to irritation from the drying out that the cold air is causing. When you have a cold, it is an effort by the body to wash out the virus. The same strategy is involved with throwing up and/or having diarrhea when you have a digestive tract infection. It is quite an experience when you find yourself doing both at once.

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your body heat makes it liquify. you're body is not 32 degrees Fahrenheit, but 98. although you may seem very cold, you are actually very warm, and the heat of your body causes change in your bodily fluids, and your trying to warm up.

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