What the color of your snot means - OSF HealthCare Snot can come in nearly all shades of the rainbow And each color of snot – also called mucus or boogers – tells you something different about what’s going on inside your body “Different colors of mucus can help tell you something, but they don’t always mean as much as a lot of people think,” said Alyssa Smolen, an advanced practice registered nurse at OSF HealthCare The scoop on
Snot 101: Why Does Your Snot Change Colors — and How You Can . . . An increase in snot, a change in the consistency of snot or a change in the color of snot can signal allergies or an infection Typically, if you’re experiencing an increase in snot, but it's still thin and clear, you can attribute it to allergies (especially if it’s allergy season and it lasts longer than 10 days)