• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is like the question I’ve always asked about getting sick.

    Do you produce extra mucous because your body is trying to get rid of what’s making you sick or does the illness make you produce more mucous in order to spread more easily?

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      6 months ago

      Idk about the mucous, but a fever is definitely an attempt at killing whatever foreign pathogen is there. Hopefully a pathologist or doctor can help us here.