# Blowing your nose is not enough!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-your-nose-is-not-enough/104167>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 17, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-your-nose-is-not-enough/104167 "2002-04-17T16:41:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-your-nose-is-not-enough/104167/21 "2002-04-19T04:59:35Z")

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If I have doing something like mowing and get a snoot full of dust, I just turn on the faucet to lukewarm, and snort/expel a few handfuls of water. Burns like a sunabitch, because of the chlorine, but it works!

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