My friend's son eats his boogers & someone told her it is b/c he has a vitamin defiency, is this true???

I have never heard this before and was wondering if maybe she was just trying to justify his habit.

My friend's son eats his boogers %26amp; someone told her it is b/c he has a vitamin defiency, is this true???
That's an old wives' tale, I guess. I think the answer below will help you (I got it from somewhere on the Internet).





Well, to make my answer more general, let's clarify that not only little kids eats their boogers (tecnically known as "mucus"), big kids, grown-ups and old people do it too.





The act of eating your mucus is known as "mucophagy" and is done by kids basically because they do not think about stuff likes adults do, they just do it and they do not think if it is gross or not, healthy or not, socially accepted or not. However is at that age that "mucophagy" starts. Some people will stop when they realize what they are doing, some people do not, and will keep doing it (in hiding) until they die. You can call it a "habit" and according to what I read....very hard to break.





Well, for your information (gross or not) the average person eats about a quart of mucus (snot, phlegm or slime, as you like) per day. As you know the nose is connected to the same canal the mouth is connected and then to the esofagus, well the nose secretes mucus all day and a good amount of it goes down your throat. When mucus gets hard stays in the nose and well, those are the ones "mucuphagus" pick and eat.





For your tranquility, mucus is basically water and salt, with some chemicals produced by the body. They are supposed to serve as a trap to incoming germs, pollen and dust.





Believe it or not, there are people who actually believes that "mucophagy" is healthy because expose your body to germs and make you produce antibodies that will fight for you in your inmune system.





Interesting, ain't it?
Reply:lol i do not know about this my mother is a teacher and she teaches 4-5 years old and when she sees a kid up in his or her nose she takes them in a corner and tell them that they shouldn't do that and then she sings "shake my hand , be my friend, but dint eat the boogers out thee garbage can" its so funny but she dont do it around the other kids.... some of them stop eating them and the others (which is like 2 or 3 ) dont stop. and she said she never heard of a vitamin defiency lol but its kinda funny that your friend would try to hide it
Reply:No...he eats them because he has no other place to put them. Get him a box of Kleenex.
Reply:Absolutley not! Although he isn't harmed by his little habit, you should try to break him of it.
Reply:havent heard that, i think its just a kid thing, get him some vitamins.......
Reply:Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!! I had a friend who ate boogers!! he works in a card board box factory!! LOL
Reply:That is ridiculous. She is trying to justify his habit. It is plain bad manners.
Reply:Nope, no such thing, just a habit and/or kids like the taste of their own snot. I used to chew pencils out of habit..no idea why, but now I don`t. Just a kid thing I think!
Reply:tell your friend they took gullible out of the dictionary.
Reply:That is pure bull!! But like everyone else, I got a good laugh at it. I almost wish I had kids so I could use that one!
Reply:No, he was eating boogers because there was no one to flick it at at that particular moment.





Boys will be boys you know!
Reply:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thank you, I needed to pee myself for once
Reply:haha. yeah, and kids bite their nails b/c they crave vitamin E. no way!








cheers!