A man needed serious emergency surgery after he severed his facial artery while picking his nose. One of his intense nose picking sessions ended abruptly when he poked a little too deep.

“The skin inside the nose is delicate and has a ... and founder of Digestion with Confidence. “Regularly picking your nose can cause damage to the skin and blood vessels and increase the ...

And that's a big problem since Staph can cause serious abscesses or pus-filled pockets inside your nose and on your face. Even worse, if you keep picking you could actually puncture your septum.

When scientists caught the aye-aye on video using its strangely thin, eight-centimetre-long middle finger to deeply pick its nose, it pointed towards a larger mystery: why exactly do some animals ...

As if nose-picking was not enough of a no-no already, new research suggests that it may also contribute the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In a survey of Netherlands-based hospital workers by ...