Should we try to stop ourself from sneezing by blocking the nose?
99483
You are sneezing for a reason.  Just let the sneeze happen so the offending materials can be effectively eliminated.
211862
I dont agree with the question to begin. It doest necessarily have to occur like this. Ive heard a lot of people sneeze and not everyone sneezes after them.
297698
Sneezing is a reflex action intended for you to relieve somtehing from your air ways.  If the reflex is caused by a strong agent (such as pepper) you can bet that thinking won´t help.  On the other hand, if the agent causing the reflex is not very strong, thinking about anything will make it stop.
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no its not possible to sneeze without closing ur eyes coz its a reflex action that happenes
315239
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.
1165185
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
106896
Why would you want to?\nYou would be better off sneezing into a hanky than to attempt to stop yourself from sneezing.
91168
Just say bless you, and ignore it.  Hand out tissues if it helps.  \n\nThere is honestly nothing else you can do- you can't stop a sneeze.  Anything you would say to try to get people to "sneeze more quietly" will just end up making you look like a cad.
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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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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!
314007
First of all not all people sneeze multiple times in a row.  The reason for sneezing is your body's primary defense against something trying to get in that shouldn't be there such as dust, pollen, bacteria, etc.  The little hairs in your nose are very sensitive and when something moves them it gets trapped inside and sneezing is how your body expels the invader from your nose or throat if it made it that far although coughing is usually more related to the throat.
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allergy tablets usually unblock the nose once the nose is unblocked the cough will fix up
545364
If you try to stop a sneeze you could rupture a vein in your brain or neck and die.\nIf, by force you keep your eyes open while you sneeze, they could leave their sockets
312636
As in humans, sneezing is normal. It's a reflex for expelling something in the nose that doesn't belong there.
331184
Wait, babies are coming out of your nose? That sucks. Or do you mean snot? If that's the case, just blow your nose and take an allergy pill.
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It is almost impossible for a person to keep their eyelids open during a sneeze, although some rare individuals report having little if any trouble doing so. The reflex of shutting the eyes serves no obvious purpose: the nerves serving the eyes and the nose are closely related, and stimuli to the one often trigger some response in the other.
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If you did manage to sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes would pop out of your head.   Er, no. As discussed above, some people do manage to sneeze with their eyes open, and they don't go blind from it. Eye sockets are made of bone, they aren't connected to the nasal passages, and there are no muscles behind the eyes that contract when you sneeze, so there's really no mechanism involved in a sneeze that could force your eyes out of their sockets. Even if there were, human eyelids aren't particularly strong, so simply closing your eyes during a sneeze wouldn't be sufficient to keep them in their sockets if a sneeze truly had enough power to dislodge them. (In any case, some people — due to circumstances such as birth defects or injury — do not have eyelids. Were the "eye-popping" rumor true, all of those people would have to spend their lives in constant mortal fear of sneezing.)