© Jeremy Maude / Global Look Press
The 34-year-old man pinched his nose while clamping his mouth shut in a bid to keep the sneeze at bay, leaving him in considerable pain and barely able to speak or swallow for some time.
Details of the rare spontaneous rupture are published in The BMJ, with a warning to the public to stay clear of the "dangerous manoeuvre."
According to the case study the patient first developed a popping sensation in his neck which immediately swelled up after he tried to contain the sneeze. Later he found it extremely painful to swallow and all but lost his voice.
When the doctors examined him, they heard popping and crackling sounds which extended from his neck all the way down to his ribcage.
The man had to be hospitalized and tube-fed for a week. After the swelling and pain subsided he was discharged with the stark warning; "Don't hold your nose and close your mouth when you sneeze."
"Halting sneezing via blocking nostrils and mouth is a dangerous manoeuvre, and should be avoided," the medical team cautioned.
Other potential complications that could arise include trapped air in the chest between both lungs, a perforated eardrum, and even a rupture of a brain aneurysm.
While these consequences are rare, medical experts recommend when it comes to sneezing, it's best just to let it out.
Reader Comments
R.C.
P.s., Tom Petty died from an overdose of.....you guessed it.... Fentanyl. In case you didn't know, junkies are buying used up patches from old poor folks and isolating the active ingredient, and mixing it into heroin to cheaply potentiate it. This has resulted in 'heroin (sic, really fentanyl) OD's all over the place.
(I've not researched it, but I would guess that it has a relatively high anti-pertussive [anti-cough) effect vis a vis its pain killing power ; which bleeds over into respiratory depression/suppression rather quickly, then cardio pulmonary arrest.
Note, likewise, ANY other opiate* or opioid would relieve pain with lower risk of shutting off your breathing, as all opiates and opioids do as a side/primary effect.
R.C.
Opiates are the natural derivatives from the poppy somniferum: opium, codeine, morphine and heroin. (The result of extracting the active alkaloids.)
Opioids are those chemicals related to opiates which fool our brains -which have opiate receptors - into believing it's dealing with an opiate. as our ancient ancestors had learned the healing/pain relieving effects of opiates before they could speak!
The PTB do not want anyone to realize this (as they wish all to believe that opiates are just as deadly as opioids (they aren't) BUT Opioids are - SURPRISE! one of big pharma's biggest money makers.)
And so the word "opiate" , in true Orwellian fashion, is being 'phased out' and equated/subsumed into the definition of more dangerous 'opioids' and even good folks and doctors who do not see the bigger picture are buying into the lie.
And that's at least single plus bad.
RC