Why do I sneeze repeatedly when I get out of the shower?
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My little daughter has the same problem and the diagnosis is that the membrane between her nostrils is very sensitive. No cure for it, but we try to not get any soap inside her nose and try to not let water get into her nose. She doesn't enjoy bath time as much because she can't splash around now, but at least it's stopped her repeated sneezing. Try it.
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This is because when you leave the theater and go out to the bright sunlight, you will see that the dust is more outside so you sneeze.
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Of course, its a perfectly natural situation. Something that irritates the nostrils' delicate lining makes the nerve endings not only say that 'hey there's an itch here too!' but the sneeze reflex also responds to the irritant.
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Sounds to me like you've got a condition called photic sneeze reflex.
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closing your eyes is a natural reaction to many events.  if someone blows in your eye, you will naturally try to shut them.  sneezing elicits this response because you are going through a spastic motion and there are lots of particles being hurled into the air.  it is hypothesized that we evolved this reaction to sneezing to keep those particles out of our eyes.\n\nsneezing involves releasing the air in your lungs at very high velocity.  for the most part, your nose and mouth can expel this gas before the pressure in your sinuses gets to a point that it causes your eyes to pop out.\n\nyour eyelids alone can't prevent your eyes from popping out.  try to close your mouth, nose and eyes as tight as you can and see how the air gets out.  also tell the doctors at the emergency room
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No, that is a myth....\n\nIn a word, no, your heart does not stop when you sneeze.  From my \nperspective, it is hard to even imagine what this would mean.  A sneeze \nitself is really a very brief event, occurring in a shorter time then a \nheartbeat.  Of course, there is the building up to the sneeze (the "ah" of \nthe "ah-choo"), but the heart certainly does not stop beating because of \nthis ah-ing.  Check your pulse next time to prove this to yourself.\n\nAs I answer this question, I am trying to imagine just how the heart might \neven "know" that you are sneezing.  The heart beats because a small part of \nit called the SA node has a "pacemaker" activity.  What this means is that \nthere is a type of electrical cycle going on that triggers beats roughly \nonce every second.  Sneezing does not change this electrical cycle, so the \nheart keeps beating.  Said a different way, the muscle of your heart is a \nbig mass of electrically active tissue, and this electrical activity will \nnot stop because of a sneeze, or anything else for that matter.\n\nAnd yet, a sneeze is definitely a complex cardiovascular event.  As you \n"ah" and "choo", you significantly change the pressure inside your chest, \nwhich in turn affects blood flow and thus the beating of the heart.  Still \nfurther, I assume that a sneeze involves a significant activation of \ncertain pathways of the "autonomic" (roughly means automatic) nervous \nsystem.  These also innervate the heart and do affect the frequency and \nother aspects of the heartbeat.\n\nSo MAYBE the rapid culmination of these inputs OCCASIONALLY causes the \nheart to "skip a beat" after a sneeze.  Notice I did not say "stop".  We \nall experience skipped beats once in a while, some more than others.  You \nmay notice it as a "fluttering" in your chest, a sensation that generally \nevokes a bit of anxiety.  What happens is that there is occasionally a \ndiscoordination of the normally organized pathways of electrical activity \nin the heart.  Sometimes one part of the heart does not conduct the beat \nappropriately, or more commonly, another part actually manages to beat \nahead of schedule, thus throwing the whole beat off.  Either way, you get \none beat that does not occur correctly.  But all this means is that you \nhave to wait for the beginning of the next electrical cycle to come around, \nat which time a normal, organized beat will occur (assuming that we are \ntalking about a normal heart!).  You see, the heart didn’t stop, really, \nsince the electrical cycle was still ongoing.  It just got out of synch for \na while.  Again, I am not actually aware that this happens with any \nincreased frequency after a sneeze, but I suppose it is possible.\n\nTaking a more historical/philosophical view of your question, the much more \nlikely explanation for why people say "God bless you" has to do with \nreligious beliefs and superstition.  As I understand it, in earlier times \nit was believed that when you sneezed you opened yourself, or your soul, to \nthe outside world.  It was an unnatural and certainly a bizarre happening, \nand clearly portended evil.  I am certain that there are variations on this \ntheme, but basically it was thought that your soul might escape, or demons \nand evil spirits might get in, or even that they may have caused the sneeze \nin the first place.  The blessing was to help ward off such badness.  I am \nno historian, but I think people have done fairly extensive studies of this \ncustom, its variations, and its origins.\n\nAh, well.  Or maybe I should say, Ah choo.\n\nTom Wilson, MD PhD
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you may be allergic cold wind or cotton fibre. shift your bed away from window, if sneezing still persists take steam inhaling. this may give temporary releif, if it still persists consult a Doc.
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A yawn is in response to too much CO2 in the blood stream.  When you yawn there is a negative feed back loop in operation which tells the diaphram to contract (take a breath) because there is too much CO2......the yawn actually increases CO2.\nThe sneeze is due to irritation in the beginning of the respiratory tract, it expells such things as dust, bacteria and other irritants from your nose and sinuses.\nA hiccup is a sligh malfunction or mistiming if you will of the glottis which is a membrane that closes in your throat to prevent food from going into your lungs when you swallow.  Whenyou ge tthe hiccups it starts to close while you are taking a breath or expelling a breath.  It just takes a bit of time for your body to reset when it closes
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Sneeze is an involuntary violent expiration of air through the nose and mouth. It results from stimulation of the nervous system in the nose, causing sudden contraction of the muscles of expiration. The stimulus can include any irritating factor in the nose—inflammation of the tissues as the result of a cold or infection, allergic irritants (hay fever), or irritating substances such as dust or pollutants in the air. An occasional sneeze usually has little significance. Repeated sneezing indicates that some condition of the nose or in the immediate atmosphere requires attention.
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When sinus around your nose is releasing too much liquid to your nose, and block your air passage, the sneeze mechanism in your brain tells you to sneeze.
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Because it makes your sinuses start running from the sudden heat.\nYou're not allergic to sunshine, I thought that kinda thing too and asked my doctor and he just said it's the heat making your sinuses run, so you sneeze.
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Eyeballs popping out when you sneeze is an urban myth.  I have intentionally kept my eyes open while sneezing with no ill effects.  The eye sockets are made of hard bone and are only connected to the sinuses through tear ducts.  Sneezing is a reflex action to the presence of an irritant in the sinus passages.  I would suggest that the reflex involves closing the eyes to prevent the transmission of this irritant into the eyes.
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It could be any number of things that are making him sneeze.\nFirst thing I'd suspect is the brand of litter.  Dust from that is very irritating.  Try another brand with a lower dust factor.\nOther causes could be carpeting, changing the AC dust filters, your cologne, cleaning fluids, indoor plants, etc.\n\nInvestigate these... you'll probably be able to ID the culprit very quick.
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Probably because your face contorts (even if only slightly when the light source is mild), and that adds to the irritation in your nostril, triggering off a sneeze.
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When you sneeze every muscle in your body tightens, The muscle in your eye might be more sensitive to the sudden spasm
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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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You have a cold or the flu - When you have either one of these, your nose goes into mucus-making overdrive to keep the germ invaders out of your lungs and the rest of your body, where they might make you even sicker than you already are. You know what happens then: The mucus runs down your throat, out your nose, or into a tissue when you blow your nose. Or it can fill your sinuses, which is why you get that stuffy feeling.\nYou have allergies - Kids who have allergies get runny noses when they're around the thing they're allergic to (like pollen or animal hair). That's because their bodies react to these things like they're germs.\nYou're crying - When you cry, tears come out of the tear glands under your eyelids and drain through the tear ducts that empty into your nose. Tears mix with mucus there and your nose runs. \nBaby, it's cold outside - When you're outside on a cold day, the air in your nose is a lot warmer than the air around you. You know how the bathroom gets steamy when you take a shower? Something similar happens in your nose - water drops come together, or condense. Then the drops mix with your mucus and run out your nose.