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Q: Why does mucus stay inside lungs?
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What is inside a baby's lungs when it is born?

Intrauteran fluid and mucus.


What is The slimy liquid inside you nose and lungs to trap dirt from the air?

mucus


How do you use mucus in a sentence?

mucus- mucus in the lungs makes breathing difficult


What function of mucus in the lungs?

the function of the mucus blanket in the lungs is to filter and moisten the air.


How is breath humidified on inspiration?

There is water in your lungs. The moment you breathe in, the heat of your body mixed with the amount of mucus coating the inside of your lungs lets some of the water evaporate into the inhalation.


How is smoking harmful to your lungs?

Your lungs are the reasons you body has Oxygen. In your lungs, we do produce mucus, which we cough up because of the cilia in our lungs. Smoking causes this cilia to not move the mucus out of your lungs which in turn causes problems.


How are the lungs protected from infection?

Mucus


Can lungs blocked?

yes lungs can get blocked by mucus if tha is what you mean :)


How does mucus help keep your body stay healthy?

Well one of the answers i know of is that your mucus coats the inside of your stomach preventing your stomach acids from eating through your body.


How does the nose keep the body healthy?

The hairs and the mucus inside the nose trap and collect dust, bugs and other debris and prevent it from entering the lungs.


Does Asthma cause fluid in the lungs?

It can cause a buildup of phlegm and mucus in the airways, but not in the lungs.


What does mucus do for the air you breathe in?

Mucus helps in trapping pathogenic microorganisms and dust particles and prevent them from entering inside the lungs, second it keep respiratory tract moist so that friction is reduced. Another function of Mucus is to regulate the temprature of the inhaled air.