D'Wan Mathis cleared to practice

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according to Kirby. Told a Bulldog Club meeting in Charlotte last night.

I don't know if he's been cleared for contact yet; I don't think there is much in the spring.

It is good news though for both our QB room and the player.

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He said "fully cleared". I guess that means contact?

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It was last May when Mathis began complaining of headaches and severe sinus pain, which Georgia trainer Ron Courson recognized as signs of a cyst and rushed the quarterback to the emergency room at Athens Regional.

An MRI showed a buildup of fluid around his brain and the cyst. A craniotomy was immediately performed. If the cyst had not been found, it could have burst, and the result could have proven deadly.

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The vibrissae, which hang out near the front, are responsible for keeping some of the larger particles from making it that far.

If you pluck those hairs, germs and particles near the follicles can get inside and cause an infection.

Nose hair
He described the concept of a “danger triangle,” or the area on the face between your mouth and nose that’s susceptible to passing infections on to the brain.

That’s because the same veins that carry blood out of the nose meet up with veins that carry blood out from the brain as well. If those germs make it all the way back there, Voigt said, it could lead to conditions like meningitis (in which the protective membranes on the spinal cord and brain become inflamed) or brain abscess (another type of inflammation and swelling that happens in the brain, related to an infection).

These types of infections are rare, but they can cause serious trouble for people with weakened immune systems. And, depending on the infection type (bacterial meningitis, for example), the infections can be extreme and in some cases deadly.

So the next time you’re considering plucking a stray hair, consider trimming it instead; so long as you don’t get too close to the skin inside your nose, it could keep the “danger triangle” from becoming a full-blown problem.

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