You must have often heard that even after death, the hair on the head and finger nails of a person keep growing. You will find many such big articles on the internet which claim this. But have you ever tried to know the real truth of this. Let us tell you today why people feel this way and whether the hair and nails of humans really grow even after death.
The truth about hair and nails growing
According to a BBC report, this is not true at all. That is, whatever such things you have heard about dead bodies are all lies. Let us now know that when hair and beard do not grow, then how do the nails and hair of a mummy become longer in a few years. Actually, science works behind this. When a person dies, his body starts drying slowly. In such a situation, the skin near the nails and hair also starts shrinking.
When the skin shrinks, the nails and hair automatically start looking bigger. For example, if you put a small piece of wood in a rubber ball and take that ball near fire, then the ball will start shrinking and the piece of wood inside will start coming out. This process will be fast, so you will know how the wood came out so much. But this does not happen with the body. The process of the body is very slow, so after some time people feel that the hair and nails of the dead body have started growing.
Air spreads disease from dead body
You must have also heard about dead bodies that if the dead body is left like this for many days, then it spreads virus in the air and people get sick due to it. According to a report published on Mental Floss, there is no scientific logic in this either. Science says that when the dead body starts decomposing, then the smell spreads in the air. But this does not mean that the air has become polluted and people can get sick due to it.
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