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Nose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As an interface between the body and the external world, the nose and associated structures frequently perform additional functions concerned with conditioning entering air (for instance, by warming and/or humidifying it) and by reclaiming moisture from the air before it is exhaled (as occurs most efficiently in camels). For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla, is known to doctors as the danger triangle of the face. Anatomically, a nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which admit and expel air for respiration. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nose   (590 words)

Nose-picking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mucophagy is the consumption of the mucus thus extracted, and is commonly referred to as "picking your nose and eating it" (although the nose is not actually eaten). Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the nose and surrounding area, it is possible for retrograde infections from the nasal area to spread to the brain, although this scenario is unlikely to arise from nose-picking. For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla, is known to doctors as the "danger triangle of the face". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nose-picking   (618 words)

Nose Picking 1 - Pediatric Oncall Nose picking is one of the commonest causes of bleeding from the nostril. Since nose picking is a habit difficult to lose, it requires a lot of patience and parental firmness. Teach your child that picking the nose can lead to bleeding, infections and entry of germs into the body. www.pediatriconcall.com /forpatients/querylook/queryans/parans96.asp   (201 words)

Nose picking: Why it happens and what to do about it Remedying dehydration or congestion is the surest way to stop nose picking; meanwhile, teaching your child to use a handkerchief or tissue instead of his fingers may be the easiest way to deal with it. If your child's exploring his nose so intensely that he's drawing blood, or if the habit seems to be one of a constellation of nervous behaviors (he's still sucking his thumb, picking his nose until it bleeds, and having trouble sleeping, for example), consult his pediatrician or a children's therapist. Certain environmental conditions also make kids more likely to pick; if your heating or air-conditioning system is drying out your child's nasal passages, for instance, he's more likely to have a nose-picking problem. parentcenter.babycenter.com /refcap/bigkid/gbehavior/66583.html   (1071 words)

Nose Bleed/Epistaxis Nocturnal nose picking can be prevented by placing cushioned gloves on the hands of the sleeping child so that his hands don't fit in his nose. The nose is a part of the body that is very rich in blood vessels (vascular) and is situated in a vulnerable position on the face. The lining of the nose is made up of delicate skin which has a rich blood supply, hence even a minor cut or scratch tends to bleed heavily. www.medindia.net /Patients/patientinfo/nosebleed.htm   (723 words)

THE IRANIAN: Features, Nose picking, Siamack Salari Nose picking is a private, comforting and contemplative activity which I am sure has been a human pastime since we first walked the earth and became aware of our nostrils. Nose picking is like when chimps and apes groom one another; they're cleansing themselves. I find nose picking therapeutic, relaxing and satisfying. www.iranian.com /SiamackSalari/2002/January/Nose   (536 words)

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Nose emergency Nose injuries and neck injuries are often seen together because a blow that is forceful enough to injure the nose may be hard enough to injure the neck. Nose emergencies include nosebleeds, an object lodged in the nose, and a broken nose. A nosebleed may also be caused by irritation or dryness of the lining of the nose, which may occur with low humidity and dry environment, allergic rhinitis, colds, or sinusitis. www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000023.htm   (827 words)

Your Child's Habits Nose picking appears to be a habit that, although it usually begins in childhood, may actually linger into adulthood. For example, a child who picks his or her nose may be uncomfortable because he or she has actually stuck an object in the nose. However, for people who start hair pulling as older children or teens, the habit is harder to break and may be a sign of anxiety, depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. kidshealth.org /parent/emotions/behavior/five_habits.html   (1789 words)

The Fine Art of Nosepicking, Volume 3, Enhanced From all accounts, it was not considered uncouth to pick one's nose at table; and we find even the poorest baron could count among his possessions a gilded nose-picking spoon. Nevertheless, people are picking their noses as much as ever. Also, several manuscripts from ancient India, which a few researchers think may very well be the missing 33 books of the Vedas, allude to nose-picking and booger-eating, believing that such practices lead to a better sense of smell and a smooth, warm complexion. jubal.westnet.com /hyperdiscordia/nosepicking.html   (1407 words)

Nose picking definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms It is "a recent term coined to describe compulsive nose picking" according to Chittaranjan Andrade and BS Srihari who studied nose-picking behavior in a sample of 200 adolescents and discovered that "almost the entire sample admitted to nose picking, with a median frequency of 4 times per day..." (J Clin Psychiatry 2001;62:426-431). The authors conclude that "Nose picking is common in adolescents. Nose picking: Rhinotillexomania, one of the more obscure and exotic terms in medicine. www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=18673   (233 words)

Picking Your Nose So, the next time that you see a person picking their nose, tell them that they are a rhinotillexomaniac. 82.8% had picked their noses to "unclog the nasal passages", 66.4% had done it to relieve discomfort or itchiness, 35.7% to avoid the unsightly appearance of a booger hanging from their nose, 34.0% for personal hygiene, and 17.2% picked out of habit. 91% stated that they had picked their nose in the past and were still actively practicing this habit. home.nycap.rr.com /useless/nose   (824 words)

Nose Bleeds Bleeding Blood First Aid Cause Prevention This can be caused if the vessels are scraped, ripped or irritated from nose picking, from being punched in the nose or from hitting your nose hard on something. Ralph's doctor is right because too much nose picking is one of the main reasons kids get nosebleeds. You should see your doctor if the nosebleed was caused by a hit or a fall, if it doesn't stop bleeding after 30 minutes, or if you start to feel faint or dizzy. www.kidzworld.com /site/p848.htm   (299 words)

Alyson Schafer - Handling Habitual Nose-picking “Nose picking is gross” speaks to the behaviour and behaviour can be changed in a heart beat. Children discover their noses pretty early in life and find it is an interesting cavern with interesting feelings, textures, and tastes (sorry). For some, picking can become a bit of boredom buster, for others it is a form of self soothing, and it can just as easily turn to habit. www.alyson.ca /tips/2004/07/07/handling-habitual-nosepicking   (816 words)

What's a Booger? Picking your nose isn't a great idea because boogers contain lots of dirt and germs and because poking around in your nose can make it bleed. Mucus is the thin, sticky, slimy stuff that's made inside your nose. After this stuff gets stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds it and some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia (say: sih-lee-uh). www.kidshealth.org /kid/talk/yucky/booger.html   (331 words)

The Straight Dope: Can you die from picking your nose? On the other hand, nose hairs do indeed serve as filters, so if you are accustomed to picking with such vigor that your nostrils are entirely laid to waste, you may want to exercise some restraint. The chief danger of picking your nose, Leo, is that you will gross your friends out of existence and wind up as a richly-deserving social pariah. There is one danger from nose-picking, however, and that is that you will break the skin somehow and give root to an infection, which could subsequently migrate inward--i.e., into the base of the brain. www.straightdope.com /classics/a1_270b.html   (357 words)

Nose Picking is Healthy? - The Sisters Three Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. And he pointed out that if anyone was really worried about what their neighbour was thinking, they could still enjoy picking their nose in private if they still wanted to get the benefits it offered. He pointed out that children happily pick their noses, yet by the time they have become adults they have stopped under pressure from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti social. www.thesistersthree.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6042   (1374 words)

Nose-picking in the Pongidae We are interested in nose picking variations (I shall refer to both nose-picking and detritus-eating by the collective term "nose-picking") among extant pongids with particular respect to variability in environmental resources. She came to believe that it was therapeutic for the animals to pick their noses, and that certain animals offered their noses up for social picking much as a psychiatrist might offer to absorb the pain and confusion of a sick patient. There are other food species however that do not evoke this kind of behavior, which Dr. Emoryi has termed "nose crying." On the whole, it is fair to say that despite greater variance in Gorilla than was the case with Pongo, there is still a high degree of correlation between resource levels and nose-picking frequency. www.calflora.net /primatenooz/nosepicking.html   (3911 words)

Rantings of a Boy: Nose picking What is strange, though, is the fact that we don't pick our lover's nose considering that it's widespread knowledge among communication scholars that human beings groom their lovers (picking off a stray hair, wiping dried broccoli off of one's cheek, etc.). After playing around with a Latin dictionary, the term for nose picking is probably, "rhinotillexomania." You figure out why. We could have adapted some strange habit of picking other people's nose and eating the booger. rnabring.blogspot.com /2005/08/nose-picking.html   (386 words)

My toddler won't stop picking her nose My 22 month old baby girl just started picking her nose and I think it runs in the family (husband's side) his brother and newphew have a bad habit of watching TV and picking their nose and my daughter is doing the same thing now. Praise him on tissue use and ignore the nose picking unless he starts bleeding or you are in a situation where it needs to stop immediately. She recently had a bloody nose that I suspect was due to her finger always being in there. www.babycenter.com /dilemma/toddler/toddlerbehavior/1397365.html   (889 words)

Marilyn Heins, M.D.: Nose-picking by kids hard habit to break www.azstarnet.com ® You are picking your nose so much that it bleeds and that scares both of us and isn't healthy. Though parents may be driven crazy by thumb-sucking or nail-biting in the school-age child, repetitive nose-picking is the least acceptable of all such behaviors and the behavior that parents most want to stop. She picks her nose all the time and so much that it bleeds - one time the blood was gushing. www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printDS/19443.php   (834 words)

A Preliminary Survey of Rhinotillexomania in an Adolescent Sample/JCP Abstract June 2001 Nose picking may merit closer epidemiologic and nosologic scrutiny. Occasional nose bleeds complicating nose picking occurred in 25% of subjects. Results: Almost the entire sample admitted to nose picking, with a median frequency of 4 times per day; the frequency was > 20 times per day in 7.6% of the sample. www.psychiatrist.com /abstracts/200106/ab060104.htm   (244 words)

TRAUMA AND "NOSE PICKING" AMONG COMMON CAUSES OF NOSEBLEEDS Also, nose picking is a frequent cause of nosebleeds. My nose is blocked in the morning, and when I try to clean it, I get the bleeding from the sores in the mucosa. A common cause of nosebleed is direct trauma -- such as a blow to the nose in a fight or an elbow to the nose in a basketball game. www.familymedicinenews.org /archives/2003/2646(FM).htm   (645 words)

Nosebleeds: What to Do When Your Nose Bleeds -- familydoctor.org The most common causes are dryness (often caused by indoor heat in the winter) and nose picking. This area is located between the end of your nose and the hard, bony ridge that forms the bridge of your nose. Packing the nose involves putting special gauze or an inflatable latex balloon into the nose so that enough pressure is placed on the vessel to make it stop bleeding. familydoctor.org /x1744.xml   (747 words)

I Used To Believe : bad habits : picking my nose He told me it was from picking his nose, that the boogers had eaten it right off. If he caught me or any little kid picking their nose he would hold up his fingers and say you better stop or the buggers will eat your fingers off. Apparently I'd done some damage to the internal nasal tissues, because in the middle of a rather fevered picking session, I came up with a particularly juicy red scab with some nose hair attached. www.iusedtobelieve.com /bad_habits/picking_my_nose/picking_my_nose_s2.php   (1034 words)

Ask Gusfucius A doctor specializing in ear, nose, and throat conditions told me that if this were to happen, she would probably leak brain fluid. If, say, she picked with a freakishly long fingernail, or maybe a chopstick, it would be possible for her to poke right through this bone. After I pick the scabs, and let the puss run, I find that it is much less painful and a lot more enjoyable. www.thataintnormal.com /Features/AskGusfucius.htm   (1816 words)

PickBoogers.com - Virtual Nose Picking Choose one of the three noses below to pick. www.pickboogers.com   (9 words)

Parenting.com - Dr. Sears Says - Help! My toddler won't stop picking her nose. (Allergic children, however, tend to push up on their nose — dubbed the “allergic salute” — rather than actually pick it.) If your child doesn’t show any signs of an allergy — frequent runny nose and/or colds, watery eyes, and sniffing — then the nosepicking is likely a habit. As soon as you see her finger reaching for her nose, use a cue word or phrase that stops her in her tracks, such as her name, then suggest that she go outside, play ball, or do whatever activity she likes. To protect the lining of your daughter’s nose and discourage the transfer of germs to herself or others, keep her fingernails short. www.parenting.com /parenting/experts/sears/index0125.html   (424 words)

Once Upon a Life - NOSE PICKING! How to make them stop? Rebekah picks her nose, but it's usually because something is in there bothering her. A booger-y nose is my HUGE kid/baby peeve and I'm constantly digging at his nose to get them out....and he screams like I'm pulling his little arms off. I've been focusing more on the times when she is NOT doing it rather than focusing on the times that she is. So I will give her lots of praise, encouragement, and acknowledgement when I see she's not doing the nose, cuticle or lip thing. www.onceuponalife.com /forums/showthread.php?t=16474   (1856 words)

Stop Picking Your Nose! The person I work with sits right next to me and has a very dirty habit of picking his nose all the time. I really don't know how to tell each one of them, especially the one who keeps digging his nose, that it is a very dirty and disgusting habit. If the people between whom you sit are at the same hierarchical level as you, it may be a little less difficult than if either of them is at a superior level. www.negotiationskills.com /qanose.php   (445 words)

Picky,_picky,_picky,_picky._._..txt That may be psychologically meaningful.'' ``There's a question,'' I continued, ``that asks respondents to check off all the reasons why they pick their nose, and among the listed responses is `sexual stimulation.' Would people actually get turned on by nose-picking?'' ``You don't know unless you ask. ``One question is, `After picking your nose, how often do you find yourself looking at what you have removed?' Now, this survey is ostensibly being done for medical research. In addition, researchers want to know, ``If you pick your nose, how do you dispose of what is removed?'' Choices include ``on walls,'' ``on the floor'' and ``eat it.'' As someone who endured for years the sadism of an older sister and brother, I'm surprised ``on youngest sibling'' was left off the list. www.mndaily.com /daily/gopher-archives/1991/10/09/Picky,_picky,_picky,_picky._._..txt   (729 words)

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