Why do people pick your nose Bashny.Net

Rhinotillexomania is the term used to describe the process of picking his nose. According to several research, 91% of people daily do this process and 1.2% pick their nose once an hour.





Several reasons for picking his nose Rhinotillexomania not belong to a recognized obsessive-compulsive disorders, in contrast to the habit of pulling the hair and nail-biting. American scientist Tom Stafford expressed the view that people enjoy from the "cleaning" and often do it because the nose literally all the time is at hand. We can say that we are poking around in the nose only because can do it at any time.

Also one of the reasons for picking, it's laziness. People are too lazy to take a napkin to blow his nose, and therefore puts his finger in his nose.

Young people pick their nose more often than adults In 2000 Indian doctors Srihari and Andrade organized a study involving two hundred students. They all agreed that picking your nose daily, and 7.6 percent did this about twenty times a day. While 20% believe that rhinotillexomania is a serious problem for them. And 12% of pupils admitted that picking your nose is not in order to get rid of the unpleasant itching and to clean up existing contamination, and only in order to get a pleasant feeling.

By the way, for the conduct of the study, Andrade and Srihari received the IG Nobel prize.

Picking your nose can damage your health there are cases when doctors are unable to help the patient after surgery on the nasal septum. In the process of rehabilitation that followed, he very frequently picking her nose, and because of this, his wounds a very long time to heal, but treatment has not given positive results.

A pathological desire to get rid of nose hair one dvadtsatichetyrehletnego men, coupled with the frequent picking has led to the fact that the inside of the nose formed inflammation. The scientists also found that those who often picks his nose, the amount of harmful bacteria and microorganisms is several times higher than those who rarely sticks his fingers in his nose.

via factroom.ru