If you've ever tried to hold in a sneeze, this new medical case report might make you think twice.
  • wandermind@sopuli.xyz
    40·
    11 months ago

    I can’t help but wince whenever I see someone hold in a sneeze. It gives me physical discomfort.

    • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      26·
      11 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
        91·
        11 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. Of all the things to get upset about ffs…

        • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
          3·
          11 months ago

          You don’t understand. I’m the same way and it’s completely reflexive. I can’t choose to, I automatically suppress it.

          • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            Well hopefully one day your subconscious lets you sneeze with deafening power, it’s amazing.

            I will sneeze extra loud in honour of the silent sneezers!

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 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! 😬

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I choose you, Confirmation Bias!

      Confirmation Bias used “ignore title before the comma.” It’s super effective!

      Right there with you though 😅

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 months ago

    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

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    If you’ve ever tried to hold in a sneeze, this new medical case report might make you think twice.

    “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.