"Unpleasant Bodily Secretions to Avoid Thinking About"

Bodily secretions such as pus, saliva, bile, cerumen (earwax), smegma, rheum, sebum, and mucus are part of daily life. Pus is a sign of an infection requiring antibiotics, saliva helps in digestion and keeps the mouth clean, bile helps digest fat, cerumen protects the ear canal, smegma is a lubricant for the genitals, rheum is mucus discharged from the eyes, sebum keeps the skin and hair moist, and mucus protects against damage by pathogens.