If you constantly pick your nose, can develop pneumonia.
British scientists have shown that picking your nose can lead to pneumonia. Research on this topic was published by the staff of the University of Liverpool in the scientific journal European Respiratory Journal.
The causative agents of pneumonia, or pneumonia, the bacteria are pneumococci. It was believed that to catch them a person can only by droplets, but the British researchers deduced the hypothesis that infection is possible by direct contact with the patient.
To prove their case, the scientists conducted an unusual experiment. On the fingers of volunteers were treated with a solution containing bacteria. After this test was given the command to dig deeper in the nose. While some did it immediately and the other after drying of the solution.
It turned out that in the end the disease was picked up 40% of the subjects. The number of infected among those who poked his nose in at once, was higher than among those who waited for the drying of the solution.
In the end, the study proved that disease, and possibly by airborne droplets and through personal contact.