A member asked:

If there is mucus in your throat and your stomach why do you have nose hairs to keep germs out if mixing germs with water makes mucus ?

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Dr. Edgar Mendizabal answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Presumably: hair keeps larger particles out and mucus traps smaller particles. They complement each other

Answered 7/30/2015

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