Health warning as man tears a hole in his throat after making terrible mistake mid-sneeze

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1. “Health Warning”. I mean, millions of people around the world have been sneezing every day since the dawn of time and this is the first known case of its kind. I think we’re fine.

2. >Medics stress the importance of never trying to stifle a sneeze after the Scottish man in his 30s pinched his nose and closed his mouth while driving. The pressure from the sneeze was so great it tore a 0.08-inch hole in his windpipe and he had to rush to hospital.

   Saved you a click

3. Why would they write 0.08 inch, who can visualise that?

   Just say it was a 2mm hole or a hole slightly larger than 1/16th of an inch for the old imperialists.

4. Knew someone who broke their rib trying to hold in a sneeze.

   If you don’t have tissues just sneeze in to your elbow and wash your arm afterwards

5. I can’t believe the human race has just been going around randomly sneezing without this critical warning for so long.

6. I sneezed like this my whole life until my friend told me to stop doing it.

7. Is this about me? I did the exact same thing yesterday – clearly not as bad as this guy, but I had my baby on my lap and didn’t have a hand free, didn’t want to sneeze into his face so stopped myself sneezing and my voice has completely gone today and it hurts every time I swallow.

8. My husband put his back out for months, he sneezed while bending over

9. Press your finger hard on your top lip. Stops the sneeze from properly forming, and you stifle it without turning your throat into an air cannon. You’re welcome.

10. I don’t even know how people can sneeze like that. I’ve tried, and I can’t. It’s sounding like a 24 stone man who smokes 40 a day or nothing for me

11. FYI if you ever want to sneeze but it tries to edge you, look up into bright light

12. Pretty sure one of the reasons the eustachian tube (the one connecting your throat and inner ear) exists is for this reason. Ear drums might rupture but they’d give out long before the the wall of the larynx.

13. Great I’m going to be shitting it when I have one them sneezes that never comes and you end up just pulling faces at the light.

14. When I broke my back, every time I had to sneeze, my central nervous systems stoped my sneeze from happening. The pre sneeze would start, and I knew it’ll would be painful. As my body would start getting ready for the impact. When it got near the broken vertebrae. It stoped the sneeze dead in it tracked

15. I had no idea pinching your nose when you sneeze could lead to this. I do it all the time if I’ve no tissues to hand as I’d rather not risk a snot rocket disaster.