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Why do we have blood and what does it do?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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How to Taste Your Blood

It's okay to taste your blood but if you have a cut and you keep on sucking on it are you going to prevent yourself from making the scabs that you need to actually heal that cut? You could be delaying the scab from forming. We have a lot of bacteria in our mouth so by sucking on a cut you know continuously you might actually be introducing some bacteria into that cut. While the white blood cells are there to help prevent you from getting infected from bacteria they can only do so much and so if you keep introducing bacteria into the cut you might get an infection.

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