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Claire Petersky said:

What happens to small beasties that get caught in your
lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus,
and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed
into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?

I've read that the concerned conduits are designed to take
this kind of stress. Noses are lined with hairs to filter,
there are all sorts of anti-septic barriers, and even if it
does get swallowed it just ends up digested in hydrochloric
acid. Still, I don't much like the idea. Besides, bug-
snorting makes one sneeze, and with my disastrous balance
that's amply sufficient to blast me into a ditch.

OTOH, wasps and stingy things could be a real danger. I'd
think a wasp sting on the oesophagus could easily lead to
anaphylactic shock. Or at the very least, a critical bout
of asthma!

EFR Ile de France

On Wed, 19 May 2004 09:33:12 +0200, Elisa Francesca Roselli
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Quoted message said:

Claire Petersky said:

What happens to small beasties that get caught in your
lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus,
and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed
into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?

I've read that the concerned conduits are designed to take
this kind of stress. Noses are lined with hairs to filter,
there are all sorts of anti-septic barriers, and even if
it does get swallowed it just ends up digested in
hydrochloric acid.

Surely that only happens if they go to the stomach?

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In article <%Dwqc.75856$iF6.6370227@attbi_s02>, cpetersky@mouse-
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I had the misfortune yesterday of accidentally snorting a
gnat up my nose whilst riding through Chinatown. I'm not
sure exactly where it went after that, probably into my
lungs somewhere, because it seemed to cause a sort of
horking cough.

What happens to small beasties that get caught in your
lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus,
and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed
into the body? Kind of disgusting to contemplate, eh?

They will almost certainly die, but will probably be worked
out of the lungs by the ciliae (sp?), just as dust and other
inhaled particles are. Most of that stuff is then swallowed.

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Fritz M said:

Badger_South said:

Well I made a mask myself using nylon netting.

Hey, we can all just ride around with nylon stockings over
our heads.

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Remember how the bad guys in old Western movies disguised
themselves to hold up the stagecoach?

Works great for me if I get caught out riding when the
bugs swarm.

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Zog The Undenia

BElisa Francesca Roselli said:

Mark Thompson said:

NOOO! Don't do that! In the full version she ends up
swallowing a bird, cat, dog and after some more ends up
with a cow which kills her.

Besides, what about vegetarians?

Nah, it's a horse.

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse...she's dead of
course [/B]

The cow was just the appitiser.

Eat'm up, it's free protein? Where's the down side?

P.S.Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French have
Italian sounding last names?

Elisa Francesca Roselli said:

As the weather turns nice, clouds of midges and gnats are
starting to form. Larger and less clean biological
specimens are also air-borne and thickening.

Remembering - how could I forget - the day on my kick-
scooter when I swallowed a large bluebottle (ah, that
savour of rotting melon lingering at the back of my throat
for the rest of the week ...), and being conscious that on
a cycle, one sooner or later ends up opening one's mouth
to breathe, I want to ask you people if there are any
standard solutions.

It occurs to me that I have never seen a cyclist wearing a
veil. Why not?

EFR Ile de France (mais non M'dame, ce n'est pas un signe
ostenatoire d'appartenance réligieuse ...)

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Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French have
Italian sounding last names?

I think Elisa is actually an American in Paris, but my
memory may be faulty.

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I think Elisa is actually an American in Paris

Nah, that was Gershwin.

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On Tue, 18 May 2004 23:04:27 GMT, "Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mouse-

potato.com said:

What happens to small beasties that get caught in your
lungs like that? I imagine they get caught in the mucus,
and die there. Then what? They dissolve and are absorbed
into the body? Kind of disgusting to

contemplate,

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eh?

Any detrius that enters the lungs is normally cleared by
the constant sweeping of the cilia - hairlike structures
that line the air passages which propel small foreign
objects up the bronchial tubes and into the esophagus, or
back of the throat where you can cough it out. In addition
there's a slight peristaltic (wave-like) motion that moves
things up out

of

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the bronchi and secretions can thicken and increase to
help this process.

According to this, then, I probably stopped coughing once
the little beasty got expelled, and then I swallowed it,
without being aware of it.

I guess it sounds better that it dissolved in the stomach,
where proteins are supposed to be digested, than stuck in
the mucus of bronchial tubes. According to a vegetarian
friend of mine, humans are made to eat animal protein, but
the main source, evolutionarily speaking, should be from
insects: grubs and whatnot.

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Claire Petersky said:

According to this, then, I probably stopped coughing once
the little beasty got expelled, and then I swallowed it,
without being aware of it.

I guess it sounds better that it dissolved in the stomach,
where proteins are supposed to be digested, than stuck in
the mucus of bronchial tubes.

You are correct Claire.

Best, -B

TomP said:

Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French
have Italian sounding last names?

There was a strong Italian immigration to France at the turn
of the 20th Century. Moreover, some parts of the South,
notably Nice/Nizza, actually were Italian cities until the
later 19th Century, when they were ceded to France by Cavour
in return for services rendered in getting rid of the
Austrians. Corsica, too, likes to think of itself as having
its own culture and language but anyone can recognize that
language as a thinly veiled, easily comprehensible dialect
of Italian.

But none of this has nothing to do with me. I'm a New York-
born Italian-American dual national, educated in Switzerland
and the UK, living and working in the Paris suburbs.

EFR Ile de France

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TomP said:

Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French
have Italian sounding last names?

There was a strong Italian immigration to France at the
turn of the 20th Century. Moreover, some parts of the
South, notably Nice/Nizza, actually

were

Quoted message said:

Italian cities until the later 19th Century, when they
were ceded to

France by

Quoted message said:

Cavour in return for services rendered in getting rid of
the Austrians. Corsica, too, likes to think of itself as
having its own culture and

language

Quoted message said:

but anyone can recognize that language as a thinly veiled,
easily comprehensible dialect of Italian.

But none of this has nothing to do with me. I'm a New York-
born Italian-American dual national, educated in
Switzerland and the UK,

living

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and working in the Paris suburbs.

EFR Ile de France

A couple of years ago we had some tenants on the other side
of the duplex, two corsican guys, french speaking. They were
nice guys, and the fact they were corsican was very
impressive to our italian landlord. They only lived there a
year, though. I called them 'the Corsican brothers'.

GobFinch said:

look at the new products at www.bicyclefacemasks.com for the answer to your bug problems (facemasks and helmet covers)

No, thank you.