Welcome to Curiosity Daily from Discovery, a great place to get smarter without taking up too much of your time.

I'm Nate.

Hi, I missed all of you. I'm Callie.

Today you'll learn about the connection between chronic sinus infections and anxiety, a new way to recycle

plastic by vaporizing it, and how marmosets call each other by name.

Oh wait what that's adorable?

Yeah I want to find out.

We've all suffered through it, especially in the spring and fall,

that sniffling

headachey burning eyes stuffy head sore throat garbage that is rhinocyanousitis

for most of us it's fleeting it goes away not as quickly as we would like but eventually we get better

But by some estimates around 12 and a half percent of all adults in the United States have what's known as chronic rhinositis.

Oof and chronic means it lasts forever right?

Well, maybe not forever but technically it's considered chronic if it lasts 12 weeks or

longer and that can be three months of chronic if it lasts 12 weeks or longer?

And that can be three months of agony at least.

Yeah, it's still not good.

And I'm afraid I have more bad news.

According to a study of over 33,000 patients, if you suffer from chronic rhinocinocitis, or

CRS for short, you are more likely to also suffer from certain mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.

We've talked about this before.

You said connection, which implies that they haven't shown a causation, right?

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