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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is it when I'm sick my body produces what seems to be an endless amount of snot in my nose?
gpt
that's your body's way of helping a brother out. When you get sick, the virus or infection that is about to attack your cells has to chill for a bit. It needs to prepare so it can get stronger before it attacks. As it begins to spread throughout the body, your immune system begins to mount a defense. when this happens, we experience the side-effects of the war inside your body. huge increases in snot production specifically result from the inflammation of your mucous membrane. this happens because your immune system attempts to prevent the virus from spreading to your respiratory tract (sinus, nose, nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, vocal cords: things that help you breathe and talk), by leaking higher concentrations of water in the cells of the membrane. Thus, your snot becomes runny and you have to blow your nose more often. Just like getting the runs after eating something bad. your body's quickly trying to get rid of whatever is messing with it.