I sneeze with my mouth closed so that none of my spit or saliva escapes my mouth. I find it faster and cleaner than covering my mouth with my hand. Other people think this is funny because they're used to sneezing while covering their mouth with their hands. What are your feelings about this?
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Sneezing into your elbow is a food service trick. If you must scratch your nose, sneeze, cough, or otherwise touch your face while handling food use your elbow. Then you don't run the risk of getting anything on someone's food, or on your hands while you are preparing their food. You should wash hands sometime in the next couple minutes but if you don't feel good or if you have allergies, stopping to wash hands for every little interruption, even with food, becomes a real hassle.\n\nI don't hold in sneezes, I usually sneeze into my chest from behind my shirt. Its just a little spit usually and I guess I should explain that I don't need the best looking solution...I work at a therapeutic wilderness camp and hike around in the forest half the time. Hygenically it doesn't matter and psychologically, we are trying to teach kids to accept themselves and their shortcomings...so we let it allll hang out, farts, burps, sneezes. If I am in a more formal situation, I may still sneeze into my shirt, if a sneeze sneaks up on me, NOT out of laziness but to keep from sneezing ON someone because mine are usually pretty sudden. Then I reach for a tissue or napkin ASAP and use that. From there, say excuse me, check quickly for boogies, blow nose if you think you need to, and get on with your life.
177627
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.
509606
Well the fact is that humans cannot sneeze while asleep.\nSneezing requires a reflex mechanism, wherein the sensory nerves in our upper respiratory tract, esp nostrils, are stimulated by some stimuli (mechanical or chemical or other)and these nerves then go to the CNS (i.e brain) and as a final process excite the nerves which supply muscles pf our respiration and the pharngeal region and the man sneezes thus. You must \nknow that this reflex is a natural means to protect our sensitive upper respiratory tract from harmful influnces or, more appropriately, external influences, be it a solid or a gas or as a response to some infection. Now when the man sleeps, his brain is not working at its normal levels and so even though the man's nerves have some external factor acting upon them,\nno reflex is initiated and the man doesn't sneeze. You must also know that when the stimuli continues or crosses a particular \nlevel, it changes from an irritative agent to a source of maybe say pain and the the man can have a disturbed sleep; there is a threshold for every thing.
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It isn't very conventient, but carry a little bottle of hand sanitizer with you wherever you go. Germs are more likely to be transmitted by something you touch and then you rubbing your eyes or nose, not necessarily through the air.\n\nWash your hands when you can and sanitize them often and keep taking the Airborne and hopefully you'll make it.\n\nI have a cold right now, but don't worry, I don't think I can transmit it over the web. Achoo!
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Yes. Especially in the past. I try really hard not to. I make a daily effort to pray that God will protect me and seal my lips in this matter. I dont like the way it makes me feel after I gossip. I definetly dont like the way it could make someone else feel. However, since Ive really tried to quit, Ive made much progress. I am embarrassed to say that the answer is yes. I am AMAZED that so many other people who have answered this question have absolutely no problem with this. WOW!\n\nI am 21, Female, U.S.A.
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Closing your eyes is a natural reaction for several reasons: strong wind blasts and, of course, sneezing. It's mainly to keep your eyes protected from the resulting dust and mist. Your eyes will not pop out of your head, your actual sockets would hold them in! This is a myth. I don't know how it got started, but it's not true.
408375
YA:\n-Cover your mouth and your nose\n- Sometimes hold your nose so you dont get this really loud sneeze!\n- And try not to make it noticable in public!\nHope i helped!
167878
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!
67885
very interesting...i think that if your head got severed off, you would stop vomiting immediately because your body obviously has bigger issues to deal with now.  i guess it's kinda like when your hiccups magically go away when someone scares you, or when you forget about them.  it's an uncontrollable bodily function that i think can be "side-tracked away."  wish we could test this one...send it in to Mythbusters...
544256
sneezing and farting is more embarrassing because maybe you sneeze weird, which is already embarrassing. And you never know if you're going to spray spit or snot of food that's still in your mouth everywhere. And to fart at the same time, that just makes it more embarrassing, because chances are someone is going to hear and/or smell it, and farting in public is just embarrassing to start with. To sneeze and fart at the same time would be doubley as embarrassing as doing just one. When you're laughing and you accidentaly fart, you are already laughing, so you can laugh at yourself, so you won't be so embarrassed. And if you're laughing hard, you're face would most likely be red anyway, so you don't have to worry about blushing when you fart. Sneezing and farting at the same is definitely more embarrassing...
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HCO3 is a natural buffer in your body.  Sneezing might be worst case, but be sure in the process of snorting the stuff it does not go down the lungs.  By the way, why would you want to do that?
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A yawn is in response to too much CO2 in the blood stream.  When you yawn there is a negative feed back loop in operation which tells the diaphram to contract (take a breath) because there is too much CO2......the yawn actually increases CO2.\nThe sneeze is due to irritation in the beginning of the respiratory tract, it expells such things as dust, bacteria and other irritants from your nose and sinuses.\nA hiccup is a sligh malfunction or mistiming if you will of the glottis which is a membrane that closes in your throat to prevent food from going into your lungs when you swallow.  Whenyou ge tthe hiccups it starts to close while you are taking a breath or expelling a breath.  It just takes a bit of time for your body to reset when it closes
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OK here it goes.. i tried not to think of this for years..sigh...A couple of years ago i had to have allergy shots once a week,since I'm not a huge fan of shots i usually turn my head.The doctor got me to roll up my sleeve and told me to take a deep breath,well i was trying to keep my mind off the needle so i decided to play with the leaves on the huge plant my DR keeps in his office.Turns out it felt funny so i turned my head to see with horror that i had my hand was below his belt area and i was molesting my Dr...I don't have that DR anymore...
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"bless you or God bless you" comes from the fact when you sneeze you are closer to death than any other time.  Your heart stops.  People used the phrase to let the person know that when they sneezed and lived that God blessed them.\n\nIs it wrong for not saying it, I don't think so but it is out of politeness.
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Common among these explanations are: \n\n\nAt one time people believed a man's soul could be inadvertently thrust from his body by an explosive sneeze, thus "Bless you!" was a protective oath uttered to safeguard the temporarily expelled and vulnerable soul from being snatched up by Satan (who was always lurking nearby). The purpose of the oath was to cast a temporary shield over the flung-out soul which would protect it just long enough to regain the protection of the corporeal body. \n\nConversely, the sneeze itself was the expulsion of a demon or evil spirit which had taken up residence in a person. Therefore, although the "Bless you!" was again a protective charm meant to protect the sneezer from evil, in this version it was meant to ward off the re-entry of an evil spirit which a tormented soul had just rid itself of. \n\nThe heart was believed to momentarily stop during a sneeze (it doesn't), thus the "Bless you!" was uttered either as a supplication for life to return or as a congratulation upon its successful restart. \n\nOthers claim an association of the practice with particular dire diseases (most often the bubonic plague, or "Black Death," as it is sometimes known). They say an infected person's sneeze was sure sign he'd soon be pushing up daisies, thus the "Bless you!" was intended as a benediction to the nearly-departed, a way of commending his soul to the care of God now that he was beyond the help of anything in the mortal world. \n\nYet other folks echo the theme of other superstitions about sneezes, that these expulsions are either in themselves lucky or foretell good fortune coming the sneezer's way. For them, the "Bless you!" is a recognition of incoming good luck, possibly even an attempt on the blesser's part to attract a bit of it to himself. \n\nFinally, some see the sneeze as a blessing bestowed by the sneezer upon the sneezed-upon. Answering a sneeze with "Bless you!" is seen as nothing more remarkable than replying "Good morning!" to the person who had just greeted you with the same phrase. \nSo many explanations -- each deeply believed -- for such a simple and often unquestioned practice. And we'll never know which one is right.
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ditto to the 2 answers above\n\nyou may get some peace from sneezing ect ... because you are relaxed\nbut you still CAN sneeze
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My longest sneezing fit lasted 45 minutes. I just couldn't stop. I kept sneezing and sneezing and I don't have allergies or anything like that.