It's official, I have a cold :(

So I came back from my Labor Day weekend camping trip with a sore throat. I blamed it on the camp fire smoke and figured it would go away after a few days time. Turns out I was wrong and I was actually feeling the effects from the start of a cold. Come Saturday morning I woke up with body aches and my head full of sinus pressure. I keep dripping snot all over the place, which got me to thinking why and where does all this mucus come from. It’s like a faucet turned on in my nose? I then remembered from lecture the goblet cells in our epithelial tissue and how they produce mucin. After further research it turns out that all this mucus coming out of my nose is a good thing. The extra mucus produced is there to move the foreign particles out of our bodies. Turns out my immune system is just doing its job and I should be thankful for this otherwise annoying side effect!!