Comment on Always so loud 😒

• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fortunately you don’t need to!

  Upon sneeze initiation of non-voluntary inhalation and the iconic “Ah-” you can consciously react with a valsalva maneuver* of the airway by retracting your tongue up toward your nasopharynx - try it now while exhaling, and if done correctly your exhale should be fully blocked and you’ll feel a slight pressure increase in your head. Doing this after that inhalation portion of a sneeze will similarly block the “-choo!” half, keeping the air and slurry of snot and pathogens all internal, at the cost of making yourself subtable to the consequences listed in OP’s article.

   

  *not to be confused with a valsalva maneuver of the GI tract, which can cause hernias and a vasovagal response that dips your blood pressure and can make you pass out

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    sneeze interruptus

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