I sneeze really loudly and powerful and often I can’t control it. What makes it worse is, its often sprays a lot of saliva as well. I’m safe most of the time if I can get to my handkerchief or tissue in time. But there are times I have no other option but to let it out. Has anyone found a way to tame it and make it milder or easier to control.
I sneeze loudly, and I’m pretty sure there is zero need to vocalize while sneezing. But I don’t do it often enough to remember to practice reducing or eliminating vocalization, so it never changes.
Apparently deaf from birth people don’t make any noise when they sneeze, as they’ve not heard anybody else do it so don’t know they “should”.[1] I’m not a particularly loud sneezer but it strikes me as odd that any noise at all would be learned behaviour.
Some people do make a lot of noise though, to the point where I’m thinking that it can’t all be involuntary.
I heard this from years ago; don’t know how true it is ↩︎
No, it sounds like a fucking bark and suppressing it just leaves me uncomfortable
Toddler time on Lemmy lol
"Hey yall, how do I not pee my pants?
Easy! Wear someone else’s.
I do it very loud, but dry.
I have never found a way to tame it. I guess that’s because I have never tried to :)
Nope, I still let out a massive ‘AGH-HOOO’ with every sneeze. I found the best was actually owning and using a handkerchief.
Try lightly biting on the tip of your tongue when you feel the urge, it often goes away.
My dad has the same issue and my girlfriend also had. I was able to help her, he is a lost cause.
But honestly it’s really basic. Just don’t yell while sneezing. Sneeze without vocalising at all. Even if it’s “strong”, it won’t be nearly as loud.
This is just like “muscle memory”. You one day started yelling while sneezing, and it became subconscious.
If you consciously try to not do it every time you sneeze, that too will become subconscious and “muscle memory”.
I never thought about sneezing ‘culture’ or it being learned behavior, but my neighbor is deaf from birth and he sneezes VERY different from what I know and hear around me, so that got me wondering.
Elbow is most hygienic. That said someone tell me how to sneeze when I’ve thrown out my back 😭
Unfortunately painfully is the only method I’ve found.
That thing you see in cartoons where they stop sneezes by putting a finger under the nose? Never seemed to work for me at first, but it turns out, it does work - you just have to push up against your septum, hard. It can at least diminish the urge slightly and maybe help you delay the sneeze so you can time it more conveniently.
I punch the tip of my nose and pull up a slight bit. Seems to help.
I punch the tip of my nose and pull up a slight bit. Seems to help.
Tried your suggestion, and I misjudged my punch and broke my nose.
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Lul I meant pinch. F my friend.
Don’t worry, it made me forget all about my sneeze, so I guess it was successful.
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Breathe out before the sneeze. It will be much less powerful when you aren’t squeezing your maximum lung capacity out through your nose and mouth.
That’s interesting. Never heard of this before. Gonna see if I’m actually able to next time I need to sneeze. I almost feel like the deep inhale before a sneeze is involuntary but we’ll see…
Makes sense. Gonna try this the next time…
Edit : Just sneezed. There’s a problem. Just as I’m about to sneeze I breath in. I’ll need to use a lot of force in a short time to exhale any air. Am I doing it wrong?
I don’t exhale, rather I just close off my airway to stop the big inhale. It sounds super uncomfortable to try exhaling at that point, but with some practice I have been able to stop the inhale and that mutes the sneeze considerably. Also, I can plug my nose when I feel it start to tickle and stop the sneeze entirely.
Thats a real pro tip right here Been doing it like that for years and I am a full time allergician
Wow, didn’t know you could graduate as an Allergician! Nature is amazing 🤣
The way you sneeze is learned, so just make a conscious effort to change.
Also cover with your arm so you’re sneezing into your elbow.
Sneeze into the fold of your elbow, instead of spraying around the room
This, or bicep or forearm if you’re like me and dont want extra germs developing in that elbow fold
Rookie. Sneeze into the back of your knee, then we can talk
I sneeze directly into the back of my head
Never forget about your secondary armpit; the elbowpitfold.
We get it. You work out.
Lol, you’re right, I do, but I think I sneezed on my bicep/forearm before I started working out😆
That’s a good suggestion as well.
How the fuck isn‘t everyone thaught this?
Are you saying you haven’t taught this to everyone yet?
they’ve been slacking
I usually warn people that I’m about to sneeze so they’re not shocked/surprised/scared.
