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.
Sneeze into the fold of your elbow, instead of spraying around the room
That’s a good suggestion as well.
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.
EVERYONE STOP TRYING TO HOLD IT IN!!! The scream is because you’re using your vocal cords. Stop using them when you sneeze.
For example: -Say “ahhhhh” like a doctor is checking your throat. You’re using your vocal chords while exhaling
-Okay now just exhale. Now you’re NOT using your vocal cords.
That is the difference between using your vocal cords and not using them. You just have to not use your vocal cords when you sneeze to stop yelling.
I find it insane that people somehow think they have to make that noise when they sneeze. It’s totally a learned and unnecessary behaviour. People who are born deaf don’t ever make that noise when they sneeze.
Nope, I still let out a massive ‘AGH-HOOO’ with every sneeze. I found the best was actually owning and using a handkerchief.
A friend cracked a rub by sneezing…
I find it weird that the only way I can actually scream is thru a sneeze
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
Try lightly biting on the tip of your tongue when you feel the urge, it often goes away.
No, it sounds like a fucking bark and suppressing it just leaves me uncomfortable
I tried to keep it on the low volume side, but it means I need to hold back a bit of my sneeze.
When I do hold back a little bit, it feels like my chest is hit by a train and it hurts like hell.
So I just live with the sound it makes, try to make it funnier for my kids, and put my mouth/nose into my elbow.
