As hay fever sweeps the nation, how SNEEZING can cause burst lungs, break ribs, cause your bowels to explode...
and a host of other health consequences READ MORE: Experts say cold water risks panic, weak limbs and cardiac arrest By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline Published: 11:20 EDT, 25 June 2024 | Updated: 11:28 EDT, 25 June 2024 e-mail 3 View comments A good sneeze brings a host of benefits and as hay fever sweeps the nation, many of us will be in need of one. Medically speaking, a sneeze is a powerful expulsion of air that removes all sorts of irritants from your nose. Usually, it's triggered when a foreign substance be in a pathogen like a virus or irritant like pollen or a chemical enters your nostrils.
While a natural reaction, they can cause a range of terrifying and gruesome injuries including, in some circumstances, your bowels popping out of your abdomen . From breaking ribs, bursting lungs and even tearing delicate brain tissue, there are many ways you could end up in hospital after letting a simple sneeze reveals Professor Adam Taylor, an expert in Anatomy at Lancaster University. A sneeze is a powerful expulsion of air that removes all sorts of irritants from your nose, not just snot Exploding bowels One gruesome case study revealed how a man's bowels exploded after he sneezed.
The 63-year-old from Florida was eating breakfast with his wife at a diner when a seemingly harmless sneeze caused his parts of his lower digestive system to burst through his body. The .
