• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Your nostrils are never open at the same time.

    They switch sides every so often, so one of them can catch a break and repair.

    They aren’t both open right now either, just try.

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      11 months ago

      See, this is what always bothers me with blocked noses, like. Okay, yeah, it’s probably automatic, but certainly, the brain can just override the active nostril and switch ot to the other sode when it detects something is wrong.

      I’m so curious why it just doesn’t.

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        11 months ago

        Your body doesn’t want to override because it’s doing it to give half your sinuses a break and recover. If it just kept running on the unblocked one you’d quickly dry it out. Unfortunately the only override is manually switching to mouth breathing.

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          11 months ago

          I get why it’d try to avoid it. I’m just unsure why it can’t make an exception when it struggles to get air.

          Also, true with mouth breathing. But that’s so uncomfortable

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            11 months ago

            Because drying out and damaging your sinus is worse than a little obstructed nostril, your body is more concerned with the resulting damage rather than comfort. You’re not struggling to get air if one nostril is restricted.

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              11 months ago

              Okay, okay.

              New question: How long could a nostril go without drying out? Unrelated to the blocked nostril.

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      11 months ago

      Then there’s me with one nostril that’s always closed.

      It sucks that septoplasty surgery can reverse itself.