Suppressing a sneeze can be dangerous, doctors warn

Yahoo! / AFP ^ | 1/15/18 | Anonymous

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Stifling a sneeze can rupture your throat, burst an ear drum, or pop a blood vessel in your brain, researchers warned Tuesday.

Many people -- when they feel a sneeze coming on -- block all the exits, essentially swallowing the sneeze's explosive force.

Just how dangerous this can be was illustrated when a 34-year-old man showed up at the emergency service of a hospital in Leicester, England recently, with a swollen neck and in extreme pain.

"The patient described a popping sensation in his neck after he tried to halt a sneeze by pinching the nose and holding his mouth closed," doctors detailed in a study published in the medical journal BMJ Case Reports.

A CAT scan confirmed what they suspected: the force of the suppressed sneeze had ruptured and torn open the back of the throat.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Calvin proved this years ago...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I remember being warned about this 50+ years ago.

[lurk]

Better out than in.

[sparklite2]

halt a sneeze by pinching the nose and holding his mouth

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That’s just stoopid.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is this also true for those who like burritos?

I’m asking for a friend.

[SaveFerris]

One of the greatest comic strips of all time.

[1_Inch_Group]

If that blows the back of your throat out, you were probably going to have an issue or two anyway.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Burritos make your friend sneeze? That’s an interesting condition. Most experience, er, other problems.

[ichabod1]

Don’t Do It You’ll Blow Your Brains Out!!!

[pax_et_bonum]

Burritos make your friend sneeze?

[Flaming Conservative]

LOL!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Just don’t sneeze under the following conditions:

* With a mouth full of baked beans

* “”” “”””””” of pizza or lasagna

* “””””””””” of birth control pills. Heard about a women who had a mouth full of birth control pills and sneezed. She sterilized her whole Bridge Club.

[adorno]

...or pop a blood vessel in your brain

I think that's what happened to a fellow co-worker back in about 1988. He was hospitalized for about a week and when he came back, he was not in the same health as before the sneeze. I don't know if he ever recovered or continued being hampered by the condition he was left in. A young guy too; mid-20s.

[Moonman62]

Myths about sneezing.

http://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=157001

[zencycler]

My motto has always been to sneeze - and to fart - proudly.

So in addition to not holding back, I’ll let out an AHHH as a sign of both relief and of affirming that there is no shame in a public display of a bodily function.

[sparklite2]

[1_Inch_Group]

You’re the one with a big circle of no people around them at parties aren’t ya?

[dfwgator]

Applies to farting as well.

[sparklite2]

A female co-worker commented on someone’s gaseousness as an intestinal disorder. I allowed as how how it’s more of a recreation.

[mrsmith]

Love a good sneeze!
Cheap thrill, indeed!