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Never Blow Your Nose When You Have a Cold
Brandon DavenportBlowing your nose to alleviate stuffiness may be second nature, but some people argue it does no good, reversing the flow of mucus into the sinuses and slowing the drainage. Counterintuitive, perhaps, but research shows it to be true.
To test the notion, Dr. J. Owen Hendley and other pediatric infectious disease researchers at the University of Virginiaconducted CT scans and other measurements as subjects coughed, sneezed and blew their noses. In some cases, the subjects had an opaque [...]
