2023-12-18 12:07:34
Researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, have discovered that scratching your nose increases the risk of Alzheimer’s, more specifically “late-onset Alzheimer’s disease”, caused by a bacteria.
Picking your nose may be a guilty pleasure for some, but it is nonetheless dangerous for your health. Sniffing in the nostrils actually increases the risk of Alzheimer’s, according to an Australian study carried out in February 2022. More precisely, the risk of “late-onset Alzheimer’s disease”one of the forms of this neurodegenerative disease, which affects people over 65, indicates The Women’s Journal. Scratching your nose can damage the nasal cavities and create a veritable highway for Chlamydia pneumoniae, a bacteria that causes infections from the most benign (pharyngitis, sinusitis and bronchitis) to the most serious (pneumonia).
By fighting Chlamydia pneumoniae, the brain puts itself in danger
Chlamydia pneumoniae attacks the central nervous system and, to fight it, brain cells use the beta-amyloid protein, linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The bacteria can infect the brain within seventy-two hours, the study researchers explain. To reach this conclusion, they inoculated the Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteria into mice and observed the consequences on their brain following one day, three days, one week then twenty-eight days. They must continue their research in humans and “confirm whether the same pathway works in the same way. What we know, is that these same bacteria are present in humans, but we have not yet understood how they get there.”
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You should also avoid pulling out your nose hairs.
Nose hair is important: prevent bacteria from entering in your nostrils. Sources of complexes for some, nose hairs should not be pulled out, warn the researchers of the study. “Picking your nose and pulling out your nose hairs are not a good idea, as they may damage the inside of your nose,” they say. Research is also continuing on the risk of Alzheimer’s for those over 65. “We are also looking at other causes, because it is not only regarding age, but also regarding environmental exposure,” says one of the professors in the study.
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