Professor Pecorari warns about the practice followed by the Vistma-Leasa Vistma-Leaase vingegaard companions: “A nonsense, it does not help breathing from a sporting point of view and can create health problems”
A Nose hair waxing To breathe better? It is the new stunt of the Vistma-Leaase in Bike, the team of Jonas Vingegaardwhich is presented at the Vuelta di Spain (departing from Turin) to try to win it. In high -level cycling, everything is broth to earn a single second more than the opponents, the problem is that sometimes – as in this case – it goes widely. As the Professor Giancarlo PecorariOtorinolangoiatra of the Le Molinette hospital in Turin and professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Turin, this practice (published by the Vistma herself in a video on social media in which some runners, including Victor Campenerts, thus detached the hair from the nose) is not only useless from a sporty point of view, but also very dangerous.
Nose hair waxing: is it useful for breathing better?
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“Meanwhile, it is important to remember that the hair of the nose perform an important function of filtration and purification of the air. In addition, nose hair is absolutely not involved in nasal respiratory obstruction: extreme, even removing all existing hair would not be obtained No respiratory advantage “ explains Professor Pecorari, who points out: “The hair has no influence on nasal breathing, so This ‘wax’ makes no sense Both because it does not improve sporting performance and above all because it is very dangerous for health “.
The dangers for health
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And here we come to the second problem, the most important one. This practice, which in fact consists In changing a cotton swab to the nose and then detach it (probably using wax) it is also very dangerous for health: “It is one thing very dangerous Because it can create folliculitis of the nasal vestibule, an extremely dangerous pathology because it can create an abscess. When this abscess suffers a trauma, even if only by blowing the nose, it can lead to some Extremely important complicationsin addition to being very painful since a sort of boil is formed. Anyone who knows the physiology of the nose knows very well that these hair has no influence in improving or worsening nasal breathing. This waxing is a dangerous nonsense “ Professor Pecorari concludes.
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