Questions about sneezing etiquette?
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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.
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Sneezing contracts a lot of the muscles in your face, including the ones controlling your eyelids.\n\nAs for the people answering with the popping eyeballs: LOL!
267134
look at a bright light-it usually works!=) oops thats for getting a sneeze out....sorry =) not sure how to stop em' just don't fart and sneeze at the same time...although i'm not sure you can...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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sneezing\nhiccups\nblinking\nbreathing\nsmiling\nsweating
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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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A self-sneezer; I sometimes take a piece of rolled up tissue stick it up in my nose to tickle it and make myself sneeze......'cause it feels good.
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I think the person blowing their nose should try their best to excuse themselves... but sometimes you don't have the chance to do that, so in that case, turning their head away from the table to do it would be fine.  But as someone else said, blowing your nose at the dinner table is better than letting your snot hang out!  I'd just hope they'd wash their hands after they blew their nose!
618996
Generally I hear a few "Bless you's" when I sneeze which I think is nice. I also always say, "Excuse me" when I sneeze as I feel I am the one spreading the germs.
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Hmm, if I had to count how many times i sneezed every day it would probably end up being a couple hundred each day, lol! I have very bad allergies and I am constantly sneezing. Usually after the 3rd sneeze, my family members will tell me to shut up(sarcastically) because they know that I will go on forever.
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Yes. This is a very interesting question and have an answer everyone must know. \n\nWhenever we sneeze, our heart stops. This is the only time in the life (of a living person) when a heart stops. There has been a convention of different cultures around the world to welcome (or say welcome back) just after sneezing. These people don't know why we welcome the person who just sneezed. But the truth is that, he/she just came back from a situation between life and death.
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Actually, yes it can be dangerous. Holding in a sneeze can force bacteria into your ear, and can even cause your eardrum to rupture. In addition, it can cause chest pain, and stress on the throat. In other words, if you have to sneeze, let it out! In class you might want to sneeze (or cough) into the bend of your elbow. It's the best place. Coughing or sneezing into your hand spreads germs.
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people say god bless u b,cos ur heart wil stop for a sec while sneezing.
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I believe He has a sense of humor. I would say God bless You and then watch for the sparkle in His eye. (keep in mind that since He is all pure, a sneeze could only happen if He wanted it to.)\n\nActually He may be quick and Himself just say "Bless Me!
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Yes there is!, I'm from South Asia ( india) and there no one really cares if you did pretty much anything to yourself. Sneezing  generates sympathy in other parts of the world which I believe is somewhat ok but it becomes irritating when you hear a sympathetic voice too often. \n\nIf nature produced the sneeze, it took care that no one was hurt by it, so the less you is pretty much redundant.
558984
That is gross.  I would not let him do that to me.  However, I had a bf once who had a sneeze fetish.  Now that is weird!!!!
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Im with everyone else.  Seeing a doctor would be your best bet.  If my little one sneezes the wrong way im calling a nurse!