My mom only ever holds in sneezes. She says sneezes are disgusting and unnecessary. But I love a good loud sneeze. I don’t think I can hold in a sneeze. I might show her this
In world's 1st known case, man tears windpipe from holding sneeze
Submitted 5 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to science@mander.xyz
https://www.livescience.com/health/in-worlds-1st-known-case-man-tears-windpipe-from-holding-sneeze
Comments
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your mom sounds like an idiot
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Well I’m not gonna ever hold a sneeze in ever again, only loud and safe sneezes for me!
wandermind@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I can’t help but wince whenever I see someone hold in a sneeze. It gives me physical discomfort.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I can’t help but hold them in. I used to be able to produce a full, loud, relieving sneeze as a young kid, but my dad thought it was performative or somehow fake. I realized recently that’s probably why I stifle every single one now and have for >30 years. This post actually scares me.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Hah, I have the same type of sneeze. Someone once told me they don’t believe I can have such an “archetypical” sneeze. It still blows my mind that some children were traumatized so much for this, they learned to instinctively suppress their sneezes.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Sneeze loud and proud my friend, let the whole world know you have an irritated sinus!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This made me think of mirror therapy… wonder if you could recondition by watching a video of somebody sneezing simultaneously. Sounds like a dumb suggestion, writing it out, but if it doesn’t you could bookmark a video and throw it on your phone home screen.
Hopefully you’re a “pro” now and that’s enough to avoid eardrum ruptures, vertigo, ruptured eye blood vessels! 😬
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
New fear unlocked! Sweet
XbSuper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t stifle your sneezes and you’ll be fine.
Haagel@lemmings.world 5 months ago
I knew it!
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 5 months ago
I choose you, selection bias!
Selection bias used “ignore title before the comma.” It’s super effective!
Right there with you though 😅
NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fucking hell that sounds painful
Spzi@lemm.ee 5 months ago
“In world’s 1st known case”
Contrary to what other people seem to take from this, it rather shows how unrisky holding in a sneeze is. If it was significantly dangerous, we’d know more than one case.
I actually had a relative who died from drinking a sip of water from a glass. Got it in the wrong pipe. I still would not warn people from drinking water after I learned about it. Again, after all, the overwhelming majority of evidence points to the opposite; it’s perfectly safe.
It’s not a great comparison, since there is a good alternative to holding in a sneeze, whereas there is no good alternative to drink water.