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  • Oh what you squeeze it isn't feeling

  • very well today

  • everybody gets sick even robot rats and

  • getting the cold or flu can be sort of

  • scary but sometimes the more you know

  • about something the less scary it is so

  • sweet and I decided to take a look back

  • at everything we've learned about how we

  • get sick and what we can do to feel

  • better

  • first why did it in the first place and

  • what is your body do to help you feel

  • better when they get cold outside it's

  • time to bundle up and take good care of

  • yourself because cool weather time it's

  • cold and flu season you heard of cold

  • everyone gets them that's when you get

  • me and copy and maybe you're running a

  • temperature and flow is just another

  • kind of cold and it's really no fun in a

  • CPL 1804 and hot and all-around

  • miserable but have you ever wondered

  • what causes a cold and the flu

  • what they're both caused by something

  • called a virus viruses are very small

  • too small to see you met with most

  • microscopes they can make a big

  • difference in your body though because

  • they can make you sick

  • yes weeks since viruses can make a sick

  • we sometimes call them germs but not all

  • germs are viruses but the ones that can

  • cause the flu and cold definitely are

  • now in order to make you sick

  • the flu virus have to get into your body

  • first it usually gets in through our

  • nose or mouth or our eyes and once we

  • give him the virus starts to make copies

  • of itself until there are locks every

  • one of them in there but don't worry

  • your body has ways to fight back it

  • might seem kind of weird but sometimes

  • if the things that your body doesn't

  • fight the virus and other germs that

  • makes you feel kind of yucky

  • take for example mucus that's the sticky

  • running stuff that comes out of your

  • nose your body makes mucus to trap the

  • flu virus and other germs that are in

  • your nose and mouth when you get run

  • down your nose

  • it carries the flu virus with it along

  • with other stuff your body have used to

  • knock them out gross maybe but it works

  • when you get run down the back your

  • throat after awhile it can make it hurt

  • to that

  • don't you sometimes get a sore throat

  • when you're sick but washing out the

  • virus even the only thing your body can

  • do to fight the flu can you think of

  • another thing that most of us do when

  • we're not feeling very well you're right

  • weeks we need when you sneeze air comes

  • out of your mouth and throat really

  • quickly as the air boom by it picks up

  • some of the virus pieces and carries

  • them outside of your body so sleeping is

  • your body's way of sending viruses and

  • other germs on their way now if you've

  • ever had the flu

  • you probably know what a fever is a

  • fever is another way that our bodies try

  • to get rid of the virus when germs are

  • inside your body you can make itself

  • hotter than normal and guess what

  • viruses hate that because want to give

  • too hot it's harder for the viruses to

  • make copies of themselves and that helps

  • your body get rid of germs more easily

  • so your body has lots of cool ways to

  • defend itself but what else can you do

  • to make yourself feel better when you

  • get sick

  • well I'm giving lots of rest is one of

  • the best things you can do when you're

  • not feeling well when you rescue scene

  • energy and your body can use that energy

  • to get rid of the virus

  • another thing you can do is drink a lot

  • healthy things like water from juices

  • and even soup will give your body the

  • things that needs to help you get

  • feeling better soon

  • of course the best thing to do is to not

  • get sick in the first place and to help

  • with that the number one thing to do is

  • wash your hands

  • oh ha plain old warm water and soap can

  • go a long way in keeping you from

  • getting sick

  • it's especially important to wash your

  • hands when you get home from school or

  • the store and remember how we said that

  • the flu virus often get in through your

  • nose mouth and eyes

  • the other thing you can do is to keep

  • your hands away from these parts of your

  • body as much as you can even though it

  • can be hard to remember sometimes and

  • you can also keep them from spreading to

  • other people by covering up your costume

  • sneezes remember yours are leaving your

  • body and going into the air when you

  • cough entreat so if you can have your

  • mouth the nose of the tissue and then

  • roll the tissue away and then wash your

  • hands if you can't get you a tissue in

  • time then cough into your elbow instead

  • of your hands so try to keep clean and

  • stay healthy even go outside and enjoy

  • the cold weather

  • Oh squeeze you know you want to cover

  • your nose need you will need to fix hill

  • it's all right buddy here you go

  • hi leaving is one way your body keeps

  • germs and other gross stuff out so you

  • don't cover your mouth you might just

  • get everyone around you your germs

  • hey it's cleaning day today we're doing

  • a little tidying up around the fort

  • we're sweeping and dusting oh yeah I

  • said the Pixies you know when I think

  • about it

  • leaving not the only time I sneeze

  • sometimes I speed when I'm around

  • flowers and I think a lot when I have a

  • cold and I bet you can think of some

  • things that make you sneeze to it

  • happens everyone's what have you ever

  • wondered why everything starts right

  • inside your nose the inside of your nose

  • is covered with a lot of really tiny

  • really fine hairs and there's also a lot

  • of mucus inside your nose

  • yep mucus the same gooey sticky stuff

  • that showed up in your tissue when you

  • blow your nose the hair and mucus work

  • together to catch tiny particles that

  • are in the air that you breathe in like

  • six of dust or pollen from flowers or

  • even a pepper you might put on your food

  • these things quad up the inside of your

  • nose causing it to get irritated which

  • means it feels kinda quickly

  • you might also feel that pickup when

  • you're sick that's because the inside of

  • your nose is being attacked by lots and

  • lots of tiny little things like viruses

  • or bacteria when you're not get

  • irritated by any of these things

  • extensive signal to your brain that

  • tells it

  • we got to get this stuff out of your

  • nose it's time to sneeze you taking a

  • big breath there the muscles in your

  • belly chest and drop off please really

  • hard

  • you close your eyes and then the air

  • leave your nose enough in a big-name

  • blast show which hopefully clears all

  • those irritating things out of your nose

  • some scientists study sneezes and they

  • found its needing can set their flight

  • out of her nose and mouth at over 100

  • km/h that's fascism race cars and

  • speeding and what called a reflex a

  • reflex is something that your body does

  • without you having to think about it

  • blinking is another kind of reflex when

  • Dustin other little things that bother

  • your I

  • and so it coughing if something is

  • picking your throat reflexes help

  • protect our bodies from getting hurt or

  • becoming sick so leaving help you keep

  • healthy like query on the inside of your

  • nose if you didn't meet some of the

  • particles or germs inside your nose

  • might move deeper inside your body and

  • soul might make you sick

  • a nice big sneeze also how cruel that

  • all the little hairs inside your notes

  • and spread around fresh new kids inside

  • you know to get it all ready to trap

  • more particles but when you sneeze don't

  • forget to cover it up because air isn't

  • the only thing that leaves your body

  • when your nose starts to go off meeting

  • also glass the light more spit and a lot

  • of germs from our mouth into the air

  • around us some scientists think that

  • germs watched by sneeze can travel about

  • 16 years which is also half the length

  • of a football field

  • so when you please it's important to

  • keep those germs from spreading like

  • putting something in front of them if

  • you don't have a TV heavy into your

  • elbow and don't forget to wash it with

  • soap and water afterwards and remember

  • me safely and keep healthy whole having

  • a runny nose is no fun but boogers are

  • an important part of your body and I

  • German security systems not is really

  • sticky so I can trap door before they

  • get farther into your body so it's

  • helpful stuff all even if it's pretty

  • gross

  • you're in the handicap for those of you

  • who haven't a half a human body when

  • something comes out of your body on a

  • regular basis your body's probably got a

  • good reason for getting rid of it like

  • how sometimes if there's too much gas in

  • our stomachs will just go right back up

  • the way came in and and generally

  • speaking the same idea goes for whatever

  • you might find coming out of your nose

  • our noses get full of climbing doing

  • sometimes crusty stuff you know what I'm

  • talking about

  • boogers and yeah those are pretty gross

  • but keep in mind that almost everything

  • that makes up our bodies have a purpose

  • that is until it's time for it to leave

  • so where do boogers come from and why

  • are they there

  • let's start with what happens when you

  • take in a breast when you breathe in or

  • inhale you're not only pulling air into

  • your lungs

  • you're also taking in a lot of what

  • floating around in the air stuff that's

  • too small to see like dust and dirt

  • going from plants local other kinds of

  • pollution and germs in these things get

  • into your body they could make you sick

  • but thankfully your body have a powerful

  • weapon to help trap these things before

  • they can get too far and that weapon is

  • mucus

  • yep the same gooey slimy snot that club

  • w tissue and runs out of your nose when

  • you have a cold or allergies that stuff

  • has a purpose when you breathe in and

  • out air moves through your mouth and

  • nose and down to your lungs these parts

  • of your body makeup your respiratory

  • system the job of your respiratory

  • system is to help your body get the

  • oxygen it needs from the air and all the

  • parts of your respiratory system are

  • lined with a thin layer of mucus even

  • when you're not sick

  • your body makes a lot of mucus but

  • usually you don't notice it

  • that's because the mucus is normally

  • really thin and watery it helps keep the

  • part of your respiratory system moist

  • and healthy but it's also really really

  • sticky and as the air you breathe passes

  • over it

  • many of the heat I particles in the air

  • the germs dust and other irritating

  • things ticket and get trapped then it's

  • time to take out the trash little hairs

  • on the back of your nose and your lungs

  • called filia asked like broom sweeping

  • the mucus year throughout where gets

  • swallowed and goes right you're

  • something but don't worry the inside of

  • your stomach is full of chemicals to

  • help destroy all the germs and other

  • stuff you don't get sick but what about

  • that stuff up your nose

  • well sometimes the area breathing is

  • really dry and when you breathe in a lot

  • of dry air the mucus that line your nose

  • instead of being thin and watery gets

  • dry and crusty kind of like what

  • happened somebody when it dried out the

  • hard things left behind dried up mucus

  • and dirt are the boogers stuff stuck in

  • that mucus when it dries out can change

  • the color of what comes out your nose

  • sometimes you get has tiny bit of blood

  • which makes it brown and sometimes your

  • body send cells to kill the germs stuck

  • in the mucus and nice out have chemicals

  • in them they can make them you could

  • kind of green or pink but no matter

  • what's in them all your nose in it is

  • you don't pick it over full of germs

  • that were trapped by that mucus and some

  • of those germs can still spread disease

  • after all the boogers are there because

  • you could have kept that stuff out of

  • your body so keep you happy and blow

  • your nose and wash your hands thoroughly

  • afterwards good manner

  • are also good science your body works

  • hard to stop germs and keep you from

  • getting sick but there are things that

  • you can do to help you one important

  • thing you can do is to wash your hands a

  • lot especially after you sneak but how

  • does so wash away the germs and other

  • gross stuff that can make you sick you

  • don't have a very best way to learn

  • something by asking questions no one

  • knows everything after all so something

  • comes up that you just don't understand

  • at someone anything could help

  • I've been thinking about this because of

  • our friend the giant squid a couple of

  • weeks ago we are talking about whiting

  • flow in the water and I said that

  • something's floatin the tub when you're

  • taking about and other things don't but

  • split within the ocean and he doesn't

  • take baths so he asked me what that were

  • and why we take them right

  • what about well up here we like to clean

  • ourselves by filling in a couple of nice

  • warm soapy water hose gross dream

  • induction humans just walk around of dig

  • getting dirty and you know it's really

  • great after one of our viewers Zoe saw

  • that episode she thought of another

  • question 102 hasn't asked how do bad

  • work and how to filter water get us

  • clean another great question first water

  • good at dissolving a lot of things when

  • I say water dissolve something I mean

  • that it breaks it down into smaller

  • pieces that get mixed in with the water

  • so for example when you rinse your my

  • hands under a running faucet two things

  • happen one the force of the water pushes

  • the mud off of your hands and to the

  • water dissolves some of the stuff that

  • makes it the mud and washing it down the

  • drain

  • cool right but what about baths before

  • we can dive into that we should probably

  • take a quick look at how we get dirty in

  • the first place your skin makes its own

  • oil this natural oil helps your skin

  • stay soft and healthy and your skin also

  • makes wet which we talked about before

  • to what is mostly salt and water when

  • the water in your sweat dries up it

  • helps cool your body down but leave that

  • salt and other stuff behind so all

  • during the day dirt dust kicks to the

  • salt and oil if you let the dirt oil

  • build-up for too long it becomes a good

  • place for bacteria and other very tiny

  • living things that's a good idea to wash

  • often now when you be in the Cubs the

  • water dissolves the salt and a lot of

  • the dirt i get stuck on your skin but

  • one thing water can't dissolve is the

  • oil itself

  • why because oil and water just don't

  • make

  • you can see so for yourself if you pour

  • the water in a glass and a bit of

  • cooking oil

  • you'll see that before two completely

  • different layers water particles are

  • small and stick together very tightly

  • but soil particles is bigger and don't

  • stick together as well so water can make

  • soil to wash away then how can you get

  • that oil off your skin that's where self

  • come to the rescue

  • so can't dissolve oil but it can stick

  • to it really well and help wash it away

  • if you could look at the particles that

  • make up so you can see that they each

  • have two different ends at each end is

  • attracted to or pull toward different

  • kinds of things one end of the particle

  • is pulled towards water and the other is

  • pulled toward oil Sony makes soap with

  • oil and water one side of each little

  • particle sticks to the oil while the

  • other side sticks to the water and then

  • when you rinse off the soap oil and

  • water all go right down the drain

  • so now you know how water and soap work

  • together to get a squeaky-clean in the

  • tub and if you happen to be split before

  • I do tell him yourself

  • okay sweet there's one more thing that

  • you have to do to get better rest

  • it's time for you to say goodbye to our

  • friends and go lie down the next time

  • you get a cold or the flu

  • remember that your body is working

  • overtime to help you feel better fact

  • just get plenty of rest and drink lots

  • of water and you'll be outside playing

  • again in no time did you have a question

  • for us about germs boulders feeders or

  • anything else can go to help you leave a

  • comment down below or send us an email

  • to kids at syfy.com think with the next

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