If you speak the Australian language Ritharrngu, you might say after someone’s wet blast, “klas bin gurruwan.” It means: “You have released nose water.” In China and Japan, it is customary just to ignore the whole thing.īut my favorite reply wonderfully states the obvious. (We were a “bless you” family, although the German “gesundheit” was also acceptable.) Mongolians ask God to forgive the sneezer, and the Igbo apologize to or for the person. According to a fine list on Wikipedia, in most countries, a witness offers up God’s blessings or wishes you good health or long life. Meanwhile, the appropriate response to a sneeze depends on where in the world that sneeze happens. If needed, though, I can sneeze almost imperceptibly, with no product whatsoever. Why hold back? There’s obviously something in there that wants out. My sneeze? Like my mom, I might go minimal at first but then I transition to a fuller more satisfying outburst. It is about the only time I ever get called, “cute”. Once sneezed very delicately and got such an amazed and positive response that I now actually out of habit sneeze that way. No hand gyrations or exciting body movements. Sleeve stops the splash damage and muffles the sound.ĭefinitely through the mouth.
Often its loud-knock-the-china-off-the-wall sneezes…and out of the blue. Sometimes right in your face.) A pregnant friend has decided that letting it all out is better for the fetus than holding back. (Australians and Indians, according to friends, aren’t germ-phobic like we Americans they share sneeze product widely. They were much like her, a seemingly polite and gentle woman who might without warning start a whipped-cream fight at the dinner table or make a joke about “taking the bull by the balls.” In a church.įrom a very unscientific poll (thanks, Facebook) I learned that allergy sneezes tend to be harder to control than other types, many people sneeze in twos, and sneezing politely into the arm is far from universal. Any follow-up sneezes had force, and the same phonetic as (though less drama than) my brother’s: ah-YESH-ah. My mother did that, at least for sneeze number one. Those responses-and others-are a bit of a mystery, but faulty wiring in the brain is likely to blame.ĭo sneezes match personalities? A lot of loud (may I say obnoxious?) people are, after all, giant sneezers, and we all have that friend who really holds back, letting squeak out just a tiny, high-pitched choo at the very end. Others achoo during an orgasm, apparently (so far, nope). A sneeze may build as we tweeze a hair from the eyebrow or nose (been there). Some of us sternutate (no, I’m not sure you can use it as a verb) when we look at the sun-called photic sneezing (I do that). There’s no way to look cool while sneezing. Your eyes and vocal cords close, then air explodes forth from the mouth and nose at upwards of 90 miles per hour. Cranial nerve endings fire off a message to the brainstem telling the lungs to take a deep breath.
The trigger is usually dust or some other irritant trapped in the mucous lining of the upper respiratory tract. But the physiology of a sneeze is the same for all of us. Sneezes are like fingerprints-we each have our own. John is a big guy, with big lungs, who doesn’t hold back. They cause our old Jindo dog to drop belly-flat to the floor in fear. Even the second and third ones rattle me. My husband, meanwhile, sneezes so loudly and with such force that I can’t help but shriek.
(He says he’s now down to seven.)īy sneeze number two, tissues were required-and employed, if time permitted, in between explosions. Each sneeze began with this strange little sucking in of air, a pause, and then from his bent body and contorted face flew ah-YESH-ah!
There was never just one, or even two or three. When we were kids, my brother was the sneezer of all sneezers.
#Gesundheit sneeze free#
Feel free to share more examples of achoo styles from friends and family! These thoughts on sneezing first ran back in October 2015, and I loved the responses.
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