does your hart stop when u sneeze?
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Does your heart stop when you sneeze?\n– Lauren K, El Cajon\n\nNo. The heart's rhythm is controlled by a natural pacemaker – the sinoatrial node, a group of cells located in the right atrium of the heart. These cells create an electrical impulse by pumping charged particles out of the cell and then allowing them to flow back in. Conducting cells transmit the electrical impulse to all parts of the heart to initiate muscle contraction. Sneezing does not stop this electrical activity.\n\nHowever, the nervous system and circulating hormones, such as adrenaline, alter the rate of the electrical activity in the sinoatrial node to increase or decrease heart rate. Just as exercise leads to an increased heart rate, sneezing works many muscles; therefore it is possible for a "sneeze attack" to increase heart rate.\n--------------------\nSherry Seethaler has a doctorate in science education and is a UCSD science writer and educator. Send your scientific questions to her at Quest, San Diego Union-Tribune, P.O. Box 120191, San Diego, CA 92112-0191. Or e-mail sseethaler@ucsd.edu. Please include your name, city of residence and phone number.\n======================================\nDear Earl,\nWhen I sneeze, does my heart stop?\n\nBen, Age 12\n\nDear Ben,\nDefinitely not, although that is a common myth. Looking at the sites in our Heart category, your heart keeps pumping blood throughout your body from when you're a baby in your mother's womb until the moment of death. Your heart beats all day and all night, all the time. When you run or play hard, your heart beats faster. When you're asleep, your heart beats slower, but it doesn't stop. If a person needs heart surgery, doctors hook the patient up to a machine that pumps blood for the heart. Only then is it safe for the doctor to stop the heart in order to operate. When you sneeze, the muscles in your abdomen, chest, and throat are all involved. And, even though you might not notice it, your heart is working too.\n\nEarl
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The cat dander will stick around for a while, even after everything is cleaned. You may sneeze for a while too and feel the effects, but if you really like the house since there are no more cats to add additional dander it will dwindle over time. If you can change the carpet that would help tremendously. However, perhaps you can wait and see how your allergies are after just cleaning the carpet and maybe you don't need to change it. Also, find out if it was a male or female cat; male cats are less allergic.
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Sneezing helps u to remove an irritation from your nose.It is more of a response than a voluntary action. Like all other involuntary actions in our body sneezing also involves a lot of muscles. Some of these muscles may be involved in the closing of the eye lids. Being an involuntary action we are unable to keep our eyes open when sneezing. \nHowever we do find yogis who have control on many of their muscles - may be they will be in a better position to keep their eyes open when sneezing.\n\nOn the lighter side - what do you really expect to see when u are sneezing!!!!!
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No one knows the reason you close your eyes when you sneeze. There are many possibilities.  the reason held by most doctors is that closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex and it's very difficult to change that.  Actually when you sneeze the velocity at which the air comes out is about 99 mph.   During this part of the sneeze, we tense some of our facial muscles an d by doing this tensing (tightening) of our muscles causes our eyes to shut. therefore, i think that closing your eyes is just part of the reflex of sneezing.
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Similar to the reflex that occurs when your knee kicks after it's hit with a medical hammer, or the way your hand pulls away from something hot when you burn it, closing your eyes when you sneeze is a powerful reflex.\n\nA sneeze is a kind of bodywide reflex in which a lot of muscles contract, not just in the nose and throat but also those in the diaphragm, the abdomen, thighs, back, even sphincters (which is why some people with stress incontinence may urinate slightly when they sneeze). When we sneeze, we tense some of our muscles. The tensing (tightening) of our muscles causes our eyes to shut.
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I'm allergic to something that no doctor has yet been able to figure out.  It strikes me at the worst times (usually when I'm eating or drinking) and it was extremely hard to control.  What I've learned to do is to hold a piece of ice to the top of my mouth with my tounge.  If you press the ice firmly enough to the roof of your mouth the sneezing should stop (at least, it does with my sneezing).
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urination...busted blood vessels in the eye..cracked ribs.  I myself had my hymen break when I sneezed.  You're right crazy things happen.
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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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Yes... But you will not knowing that you have sneeze
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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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No. What are doing right before you sneeze? Taking in short breaths of air before finally sneezing.
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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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If it was a really hard sneeze, it would not be uncommon to feel pain all the way down to the testicles. However if it happens every time you sneeze and even when it is just a light one, then it is definitely a symptom that should lead you to get checked out by a good doctor.\n\nAs for stopping the urine flow, that too will cause some discomfort especially if you choke it off really fast in mid stream. You may have had a reason to do that but you should not have. Once the river is running, do not dam it up even if a friend scares you. Always finish you pee and then react.
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◙ when it's feverish and sneezes alot. :)
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Because otherwise some 'thing' in your eyes will get damaged by the fastness of a sneeze, and therefore the eyelids react with shutting when sneezing.\nDon't really remember more than that, I read it 3 years ago somewhere... :S
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'It is unclear, but scientists theorize that we close our eyes when we sneeze to protect them. We may be protecting our eyes from microorganisms and particles from our sneezes," But it could also be simply because a sneeze is a kind of bodywide reflex in which a lot of muscles contract, not just in the nose and throat but also those in the diaphragm, the abdomen, thighs, back, even sphincters (which is why some people with stress incontinence may urinate slightly when they sneeze).\n\nResearchers aren't sure exactly why the sneeze reflex happens, but whatever neurological message tells the eyes to close probably comes from a primitive part of the brain called the medulla oblongata in the brain stem.  And, it's not just an irritation in the nose that can trigger a sneeze; some people, probably because of genetics, have a photic reflex, which makes them sneeze in response to sudden, bright light.\n\nAnd, in case you were wondering about that old wives' tale about the heart skipping a beat when you sneeze, rest assured: It doesn't, though it may pause for a fraction of a second before resuming its normal rhythm.  That pause is believed to occur due to a change in intra-thoracic pressure, or pressure in the chest, when you sneeze. That pressure may stimulate the vagus nerve, which in turn slows the heart rate down for a brief moment.\n\nThis is not dangerous.   But it's believed that people began saying ''God bless you" when a person sneezes because they believed that, in that brief moment, you were between heaven and hell, and, if you were blessed, you'd be saved from damnation.
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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.\n\nThe sneeze center makes all these muscles work in just the right order, to send that irritating particle out of your nose -- at speeds up to 100 mph