cause when I sneeze my eyes close and I have been trying forever to keep them open when I sneeze.  My friends know how but I dont.  I was just wondering if you could share the secret with me!
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Your eyes are forced shuh by a part of the brain that refuses to look at the booger bits that go flying out when you sneeze.\n\nYou have overcome it looking at stuff like go-at-se until that part of the brain just gives up.
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It's a good idea to keep tissues with you so that you can grab one and sneeze into it with your hands at your nose and mouth. That can muffle the sound a little.\n\nYou can actually break bones in your face if you try to stifle a sneeze as others here have suggested--a VERY bad idea!\n\nI don't try to do anything about the sound when I'm alone. When I'm in public, I grab my tissue as I said above, and turn away from others and try to allow some of the air coming from the sneeze out through my mouth.
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Yes it is healthy to sneeze! If you hold your sneezes in then you will totally mess up your sinus cavity, and have to have a $14,000+ sinus surgery. The thing about all of your functions is only if you sneeze so many time in a row. I was told if you continue to sneeze more than 12 times your heart will stop. \n\nSo, if you gotta sneeze let it out! My husband and I spent 4 sleepless nights after his surgery!
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My brother sneezes every time he walks into the sunlight. It's called "Autosomal dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic". \n\nHere's some info on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
325892
you may be allergic cold wind or cotton fibre. shift your bed away from window, if sneezing still persists take steam inhaling. this may give temporary releif, if it still persists consult a Doc.
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Many people thought that sneeze is impolite, it's true if you do it on purpose. But it is natural and it is good because when you sneeze bacteria that try to come inside your lung will come out. Try to cover your mouth and nose when you feel, you will sneeze.
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When I wore contact lenses, one would occasionally roll up and move way up into my eye. The way I got it out was to very gently get hold of my upper lid (by way of eyelash, just be super careful not to rip lashes out!), and pull the lid down to close your eye. This produces some tears and also gently moves anything you have up there, downward.\n\nGetting something out of your eye from the side or lower part of your eye is a different story, but if it hurts bad enough, I found that my eyes would tear up enough to make it move to a spot where I could get at it.\n\nJust take great care, we can't emphasis that enough, so much damage can be done trying to "play" with your eyes!
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the only systems that a sneeze can effect are:\n\nrespiratory (the heart skips a beat when you sneeze [hince why we say bless you])\n\nmuscular (the muscles tighten up when you sneeze [if someone were to sneeze 100 times in one day, they will burn 5 calories])\n\nof course your nervous system ( when you sneeze and your body moves, reacts, or holds your hands up its because of your nervous system tells it to do so.)\n\nwell your immune system is kind of effected. ( its the reason why youre sneezing in the first place)( its getting rid of unwanted air or particles that recently entered your body)\n\nand thats all i believe.
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it cant go behind your eye, move your eye around, do you feel anything? apply light pressure to your eyelid moving it around, if it is on top of your eye under the lid you can slide it down. this morning mine was way up in the corner of my eye closest to my nose and i had to blink it out then usemy finger to slide it down. you may have just lost it though, you can feel it there is no hiding that.
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Not an expert, but it seems to be a kind of reflex action in a small percentage of people. If you experience the "sun sneeze" the same way that I do, it only occurs if I look skyward or toward the bright light of the sun.  If  I look away, I lose the urge to sneeze.  My best guess is that it may be a crossed wire of sorts in some people where an overload of the visual senses creates a reaction.  Since it is impossible to keep your eyes open during a sneeze, it could be that this reaction is the body's attempt to protect your eyes from exposure to the intense light.
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sure try sneezing out your leg...maybe the snot will come out of the nose like it's suppose to...one love!!!!
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Just relax.  This is probably just a sub-conscience reaction to not wanting to be heard sneezing.  Nobody should think differently of you as long as you make sure that your hands are clean.
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In a word, no, your heart does not stop when you sneeze. From my perspective, it is hard to even imagine what this would mean. A sneeze itself is really a very brief event, occurring in a shorter time then a heartbeat. Of course, there is the building up to the sneeze (the "ah" of the "ah-choo"), but the heart certainly does not stop beating because of this ah-ing. Check your pulse next time to prove this to yourself.\n\nAs I answer this question, I am trying to imagine just how the heart might even "know" that you are sneezing. The heart beats because a small part of it called the SA node has a "pacemaker" activity. What this means is that there is a type of electrical cycle going on that triggers beats roughly once every second. Sneezing does not change this electrical cycle, so the heart keeps beating. Said a different way, the muscle of your heart is a big mass of electrically active tissue, and this electrical activity will not stop because of a sneeze, or anything else for that matter.\n\nAnd yet, a sneeze is definitely a complex cardiovascular event. As you "ah" and "choo", you significantly change the pressure inside your chest, which in turn affects blood flow and thus the beating of the heart. Still further, I assume that a sneeze involves a significant activation of certain pathways of the "autonomic" (roughly means automatic) nervous system. These also innervate the heart and do affect the frequency and other aspects of the heartbeat.\n\nSo MAYBE the rapid culmination of these inputs OCCASIONALLY causes the heart to "skip a beat" after a sneeze. Notice I did not say "stop". We all experience skipped beats once in a while, some more than others. You may notice it as a "fluttering" in your chest, a sensation that generally evokes a bit of anxiety. What happens is that there is occasionally a discoordination of the normally organized pathways of electrical activity in the heart. Sometimes one part of the heart does not conduct the beat appropriately, or more commonly, another part actually manages to beat ahead of schedule, thus throwing the whole beat off. Either way, you get one beat that does not occur correctly. But all this means is that you have to wait for the beginning of the next electrical cycle to come around, at which time a normal, organized beat will occur (assuming that we are talking about a normal heart!). You see, the heart didn’t stop, really, since the electrical cycle was still ongoing. It just got out of synch for a while. Again, I am not actually aware that this happens with any increased frequency after a sneeze, but I suppose it is possible.\n\nTom Wilson, MD PhD \n\nhttp://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar98/890925984.An.r.html
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I'm sorry I don't have an answer for you. I just wanted to say that my ears do that as well. I cough, I feel like I'm gagging, my eyes water, and sometimes I even sneeze. I hate cleaning my ears. I just wanted to tell you that you're not alone.
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It's an old superstition / nicety to say something like that from the days of ignorance of illnesses and when a sneeze could be the sign of something far more serious than a cold such as bubonic plague which ravaged Europe in 1665. It was thought that God would, somehow, cure you. Naturally this belief was fostered with the fact that if it was only a cold or tickly nose then the sneezer would eventually recover so, to people at that time, saying 'Bless You' would appear to be effective.At that time it was fashionable to carry nosegays, small handkerchiefs doused in perfume or wrapped around aromatic flowers, to disguise the terrible smells in towns where there were no sewer systems and rotten stuff and excrement littered the streets. Sneezing at such filth would be quite common.\n\nHowever like all superstitions it doesn't work and is now merely regarded as a courtesy. If your friend is so obsessed that she feels that she has to say it try two things. Firstly explain that all superstition is bunkum and is based on ignorance and stupidity. not fact and secondly offer yourself as a guinea pig to prove it. Ask her, next time you sneeze in her presence, NOT to say 'Bless You' and thus prove that there is no detrimental effect on you. That is, of course, unless you have a touch of The Plague!
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Flonase spray worked the best for me. But you have to use it every morning as a treatment. Before, everything made me sneeze! I was constantly going home from work or school because it was unbearable. Now it's like I've never had hay fever! It took it a few days to really start working, but I kept with it. I'm so glad I did. I only had to use it for a few months, then once I stopped using it, it's like it's still working. No sneezing!
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Do you have allergies?  Most people I know get stuffed up and sneeze.  I get "foggy" and dizzy.  My daily vitamin is an allergy pill containing pseudoephedrine.  When I don't take one, I get sick to my stomach; my memory is shot, and I have a horrible time concentrating.\n\nMy work doctor figured this out for me a few years ago after visits with the Emergency room and my family doctor and useless vertigo pills.  If your doctor isn't sure how to tell, my work doctor had me look to one side, and then to the other side.  When I did, my eyes quivered as if they were trying to focus and couldn't.  Looking straight ahead didn't seem to be different.  Hope this helps ya!