After you blow your nose, do you look in the tissue?

Are there people that don't?

Yeah man, gotta know if there's blood or not.

Yes, I need to make sure that what's in the tissue matches what I felt fly out of my nose so I know it's not stuck in my beard.

If I didn't look how would I know what kind of infection I have?

Yes. And we always should. The colour of what is coming out can hint how far/how bad you might be on a cold, as well as the consistency. Knowing if you're losing blood or clots is also important.

Lots of people talking about monitoring health, I just look because I'm curious lol

Maybe this time rubies came out, I won't know until I check

always to check for worms

Yeah, kinda helpful in monitoring health.

You won't find anything unusual 99% of the time, and usually not even when you add .9 with a bunch of extra 9s behind that. But when you do find something, it means you can be proactive in handling it.

Not that everything shows up in mucous that can be wrong with your sinuses, or that things can't ramp up faster than you can detect a change.

But it's still useful to check.

Yes. Excess of green or yellow mucus could be indicative of strep throat or a cold. If there's bleeding, that's a sign of worse.

If I feel something more solid than snot hit the tissue, I'll check.

You never know when it might be bloody sinus tissue again.

Just checking for blood

Yea

Yes, for three reasons.

1. I judge the color to be sure I'm not getting sick and it's just a regular need to blow my nose.
2. I check for the presence of any blood, since I work around materials and in environments that can cause alot of dry air, giving me a higher incidence of nose bleeds.
3. My work environments are very dusty, and if Inhave alot of black or grey dust when I blow my nose, I know I need to clean my airways when I get the chance so the dust isn't in there longer then a day.

95 % of the time. I don't if I'm in public and in close proximity to someone.

It's like looking after you have a bowel movement. It's normal.

I hold the folded tissue up to the light, if I see color I double check, if not, then no. Also I usually only do this if I feel a reason to, like feeling sick, or like it may have been a bloody nose, etc.

Ya. Don’t you care at all about your health? Why wouldn’t you check?

Most folks do, it ain't even an issue.

Yes, maybe a Burglarobbit came out me nose, gotta check.

I don't. I felt it come out, I know what it's gonna look like.

Along the questions we all wonder about!

Yes. The color of the mucus is informative for Chinese medicine. I don't have the full details of it, but if it's transparent, that means you are dealing with "cold" infection, and you should use herbs that are "hot". Oppositely, yellow means "hot" infection, and you should use "cold" herbs.

If you use the wrong herbs and fail to balance it out, the infection gets worse.

Yes, cause I work in a dusty environment. If you see dust or particulates in your snot, thats in your lungs too and you should start wearing a respirator.

No, but i do rub the folded up tissue around between my fingers to assess and admire the volume of my expulsion

Yes.

Usually only if I'm sick, so I can see how transparent the snot is.

Every time.

Every single time. I just like it.

I almost never blow my nose anymore since I read that doing so tends to blow snot into your sinus cavities, which increases the risk of infection. It's better to just sniff in most cases.