Hair has many important roles in our body. Let’s discuss them one by one.
PROTECTION
Hair is one of the important parts of integumentary system of our body. It serves us by preventing the foreign particles like dust to enter the body. For e.g. hair around eyes does not allow dust to enter in the eye same [...]

Growth of hair is dependent on the factors like weight, age, metabolism, hormone, medications etc. all our body hair has to go through three phases. Before this let us understand how it starts. First of all a hair follicle is formed, pouch like structure under the skin and what we see is hair shaft and [...]

Sneezing is a procedure of expelling the harmful bacteria and virus which has entered the body and multiply themselves during cold, allergic reactions or when dust blows on our face.
Nose acts as a purifier and cleanses the air that have bacteria and dust particle. A chemical named HISTAMINE is created by inflammatory cells in [...]

Snoring occurs mainly due to the soft palate at the back roof of mouth which closes the nasal passage while swallowing or uvula; a dangling like thing comes in the way of air. During sleep they get relaxed during night making the passage narrower for the air. So whenever you breathe throat muscle vibrates and [...]

In scientific terms sleep talking is called as SOMNILOQUY. Many people, mostly 50% children and five percent adults brain confuses and talk in their sleep. Sleep talk occurs in some people may be because of stress, anxiety, having less sleep, unresolved issues, eating in excess exactly before going to bed or it can be due [...]

Experiments are still going on to know the exact reasons of sleepwalk but there are some of the possibilities which are known to us. Professionals say that it is a kind of disorder in which a person is between a state of sleeping and walking because there must be something that triggers the brain during [...]

Continuous process of opening and closing of eyelids is called blinking. A person approximately blinks after every four or five seconds. The first and foremost function of blinking is to spread the lubricant through eyelids and eyelashes. The lubricant is produced within the eyes itself to prevent it from drying. It also prevents injury and [...]

When we are ill our body fights against the infection with the help of antibodies. In this process of producing more antibodies our body heats up. More the temperature more is the production of antibodies. Substances like pyrogens cause fever. They move through bloodstream and send a message to hypothalamus in brain which controls [...]