A hole in your throat is nothing to sneeze at, as shown by a case report recently published in BMJ Case Reports. And the case report showed the dangers of pinching your nose and closing your mouth in ...

If you’ve ever tried to stifle a sneeze by pinching your nose and closing your mouth, doctors are offering a cautionary tale for why you should stop. After a man in the U.K. ruptured the back of his ...

A man pinched his nose and closed his mouth to stifle a sneeze, which can increase the pressure in the upper airways by up to 20 times Getty Doctors are warning people not to hold back their sneezes ...

The stifled sneeze tore through the lining of the man’s trachea, doctor’s said, as seen on X-ray marked by the black arrow. BMJ Case Reports A man suffered a first-of-its kind injury when he tried to ...

(WZZM) - People are starting to sneeze more as allergy season gets going. The next time you want to stifle one of those sneezes, doctors say you should reconsider. When you have to sneeze, it means ...

Holding in a sneeze can cause a ruptured eardrum and other complications. A suppressed sneeze might lead to fractures or subcutaneous emphysema. Sneezing helps remove allergens and irritants from your ...

When a floating dust particle or wayward grain of pollen waft their way into my sinuses, a predictable physiological response occurs: I scream bloody murder through my nose in the form of a massive, ...

Tempted to stifle a loud or untimely sneeze? Doctors say it's better to let it out. A newly released Medical Journal study tells the unusual case of a 34-year-old British man who actually ruptured the ...