This can be when I walk out the door on a sunny morning, or while driving I turn a corner and the sunshine hits my eyes at a certain angle -- suddenly I sneeze.  \nWhen I was about 14 and riding a bus to school, the bus driver asked me "Why do you sneeze at this same place on the drive almost every day?".  It was right where we turned a corner into bright sunshine.  \nDoes anyone else experience this?  What is the science behind this?
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The NIH has a published study on (seriously) ACHOO syndrome. My sisters have it. ACHOO SYNDROME\n\nAlternative titles; symbols\nAUTOSOMAL DOMINANT COMPELLING HELIOOPHTHALMIC OUTBURST SYNDROME\nPHOTIC SNEEZE REFLEX\nSNEEZING FROM LIGHT EXPOSURE\nPEROUTKA SNEEZE\n\nIt is described a 'disorder' characterized by nearly uncontrollable paroxysms of sneezing provoked in a reflex fashion by the sudden exposure of a dark-adapted subject to intensely bright light, usually sunlight.
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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!
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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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yes.  you sneeze when something irritates your inner nose.  all that happens is that a little piece of dust gets in the wrong place, and you wake up sneezing--but this does not happen very often.  it is very rare
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Sneezing feels good because it's releasing pressure -- it's an orgasm* of sort. \n\n*Orgasms are not only sexual for the dirty minds out there!
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Of course, its a perfectly natural situation. Something that irritates the nostrils' delicate lining makes the nerve endings not only say that 'hey there's an itch here too!' but the sneeze reflex also responds to the irritant.
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I have had a twitch happen in my eyes for a while and talk to others about it. It turned out to be stress related.....even the doctor agreed.  It happens in the corner of the eyes.
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Look at a brihgt light until you sneeze. Or Get some pepper and smell deep into it if you wait a while.\n~*Alyssa*~
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Twitchy eye is quite funny, like being tickled. It happens when you're tired or stressed, and you think everyone else can see your eye having a little fit, but they can't. I don't know how old you are, but your blurred vision could be 'silent migraine'. This can start in children and as they grow up, the headaches follow. It could also be staring at a computer screen! Have your eyes checked. :-)
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We sneeze to clear our breathing passages. We all have a natural reflex to sneeze whenever a small foreign substance enters our airways. So don’t hold back your sneezes-let ‘em rip!\n\nDo people really sneeze when they look at the sun? This is an important question! There a lot of things that people say they do that they don’t really do. I personally do not sneeze when I look at the sun, and for a long time I thought this was a myth. But I am guessing that you are a sun-sneezer from your question. It seems that some people really do sneeze when they look at the sun, or actually at any bright light (there is nothing special about the sun). This has been recognized in medical journals for at least 40 years, and is called different things, including the "photic sneeze reflex" and even the "ACHOO syndrome". In a few instances the reflex has been documented by shining bright lights at people to make them sneeze, so it probably really does happen.\n\nThe thing is, the sun does not make most people sneeze. The best estimates are that only about 25% of people (i.e. 1 in 4) are sun-sneezers, and even sun-sneezers don’t do it most of the time. Other studies suggest that sun-sneezers might have inherited the trait in a dominant fashion from their parents (which means that if only one parent was a sneezer, they would pass the trait on to half of their kids). The problem with these estimates is that they generally rely on asking people if they sun-sneeze, and if their parents do. This is VERY unreliable. People who sun-sneeze tend to assume everyone does, and people who don’t sun-sneeze have often never even considered the possibility!!
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It's probably dust. You can clean all you want but dust is still in the air. When you clean your house you are cleaning the dust that has fallen out of the air and landed on furniture. You can't clean your air unless you have a special filter.\n\nDo you have any animals in the house? It could be an allergy to an animal.\n\nDoes it only happen in your house, or other indoor places?\n\nAs far as sneezing fits, that's how it effects some people. There isn't much you can do about it.
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Photic sneeze reflex (also referred to as sun sneezing and whimsically called ACHOO, a backronym for Autosomal dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst) is a medical condition by which people exposed to bright light sneeze. It has been suggested that the photic sneeze reflex occurs only after someone has been adapted to the dark for at least five minutes, although this is not certain, and is not uniform amongst people with the photic sneeze reflex. The photic sneeze reflex can also cause one to sneeze many times consecutively. The condition occurs in 17% to 25% of humans with more common occurrence in Caucasians than other human races. The condition is passed along genetically as an autosomal dominant trait.
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When people sneeze, they tense up thus their muscles put a strain on their joints.  This is actually one of the reasons people in car accidents get broken bones.  Not because of the actual crash, but because of tensing their muscles which result in the muscles breaking the drivers own bones.  Also the fact that you pop a lot of your joints doesn't help.
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I was taught a sneeze is like a burp or breaking wind. It's simply ignored, as though it never happened. Of course if the person needs a handkerchief and doesn't seem to have one, then for a close friend, relative, or business associate, you would provide them with your clean, pressed white linen or cotton handkerchief and not expect to receive it back (ever).\n\nBut I like the "you're sooooooo good lookin'" idea. Lol  :c)
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You know how when people get angry they sometimes flare their nostrils? well I can flare one nostril even when Im not angry lol!
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Absolutely not!  \n\nIf people who have allergies and sneeze numerous times in a row (my friend can sneeze more than 10 times in a row during allergy season) suffered a stopped heart, they'd die by the time the sneezing fit was over.
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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!