Mouth Breathers

tedjohn - 2013-05-14 6:31 PM If you swallow a bug , do you have to take that into account for nutrition purposes?  What's the amount of carbs in a bug?

I always thought the bugs were just protein and no carbs... Hmmm...

I have been stung by a wasp inside the mouth, and in one of the helmet vents. It's like getting punched in the face or hit by a rock. Not recommended.

Another mouth breather here. Never had this happen while on my bike, but have had it happen on a run and when I was a kid playing on the jungle gym I remember yelling and all of the sudden in flies a grasshopper. I swallowed it. Probably the most protein I had that day.

I just saw a news report about how WHO has now said that bugs are a legitimate source of food for the world's people. The fact is that a lot of the world intentionally eats bugs. That though is different from having one fly into your mouth when you least expect it.

Hmmm! Bug protein!

Have eaten a couple here. Always fun.

I am a mouth breather and have eaten countless bugs, gaged and choked, and was sting on the lip inside the mouth by a wasp once.  I found out last fall that I have a deviated septum and that occludes one nostril 90 some percent.   I can take a shot of affrin if need be, but that gets my heart all jacked up.   My ENT doc said he if I can live with it then no need for surgery, He also said most mouth breathers are in the same situation.  It also gives me a constant post nasal drip.  Oh well, I will keep taking my nutrition as the winged variety.

Thanks everyone...Now I have...

Well, it's a strange old game, you learn it slow

One step forward and it's back to go

You're standing on the throttle, you're standing on the brakes

In the groove till you make a mistake

Sometimes you're the windshield

Sometimes you're the bug

Sometimes it all comes together, baby

Sometimes you're a fool in love

Sometimes you're the Louisville slugger

Sometimes you're the ball

Sometimes it all comes together, baby

Sometimes you're gonna lose it all, groove it, groove it, groove it

...stuck in my head.  

Just little bugs.

Trying to come up with a clever statement about Honey Stinger products...

I breathed in a beetle once. I was coughing like crazy but I couldn't get it back up. I think it was gripping inside my lung with his little beetle feet. After a while the feeling went away, but I don't know what happened to the bug. Maybe it broke up and got absorbed?

We need a doctor to reply on this.

One sign of anaerobic threshold is not being able to comfortably breathe through the nose only.  So anyone out there training at or above AT is definitely a mouth breather!

I had a bee fly down my throat in college.  I felt like it was starting to swell up so a coworker drove me to the university medical center.  By the time we got there if felt mostly okay.  When they looked down my throat they saw a little red mark but no stinger.  Guess I swallowed him before he got me.