sneezing with your eyes closed

It’s simply an uncontrolled body response. Sneezing with your eyes open feels impossible without using your fingers to pry them open. Which has certainly been done, by one of the guys on Mythbusters and countless others. “It is certainly possible to keep your eyes open if you try while you are sneezing … but it requires working against the reflex,” says co-author Vreeman, assistant professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. “It’s a very strong response.

My eyes r half closed from sneezing non stop sense yesterday. Have a cough, non stop sneezing, runny nose, ears itch and ring. I'm scared its hurting baby from sneezimg so much amd blowing my nose.

No, sneezing with your mouth closed will not change your structural anatomy. Do you normally worry about things like this? Do you have a history of anxiety, or OCD, something like that?

She is now not sneezing and moving her legs around. She appears as if resting because both her eyes are closed but i know she can open one of her eyes. So what do i do next? I wouldnt prefer to go to the vet because of financial difficulty. And im not sure what to do.

Last fall I noticed many of them sneezing,and they have leaky eyes and now that winter is here they are really coughing and sneezing with eyes and noses that are leaking. I feel so sorry for them and I don't know what they have? I have been giving them lots of warm meals and cleaning their eyes and noses. Thank you.

t taste the food as well and my eyes are tearing from the sneezing fit. So not only have I been embarassed by my sneezing, but I also feel like I've been "cheated" out of a good meal! My heart goes out to you - I know what you go through!

Thank you very much I'll look that up. I was also wondering if "blinking" with your eyes closed can be something normal or brought on by stress. I know you can't actually blink because your eyelids are down, it could just be twitching , but what I mean is to have the same muscle contraction/movement in your face with your eyes closed as if you were to have them open. I'm pretty sure that's a weird symptom but any help would be appreciated.

I had sneezing fits for up to a half hour at a time.....I literally could get nothing done while I was doin' that...I couldn't see with my eyes closed the whole time like they are when ya sneeze, and I had a hand up constantly to catch the spray. I was talkin' to a friend on here one day and I had to tell him I couldn't talk because of the sneezing and I'd catch him when it was done....I finally got done, and then about 15 minutes later, it started up again!

Unless new symptoms appear and you have had an opthalmologist examine your eyes, move on and learn, with professional help if you need, to deal with your anxiety

The primary treatment is simply avoiding the things that trigger your symptoms. It is often treated with a drying nasal spray (like Atrovent) and antihistamines like chlopheneramine and lovatidine are effective. Nasal decongestant drops too relieve congestion. There are tubes called 'Eustachian tubes' which connect the middle ear to the throat, this balances the air pressure in the ears.

I have been sneezing and stuffy nose 5 weeks now. I have also had my left ear go out, meaning I can no longer hear in my left ear. I have tried Claritin, Benydryl, I have used ERO ear wax removal for the ear but it is still "blocked" and I can't stop sneezing and watery eyes, and runny nose and stuffy nose no matter what medication I take. Help, It's been 5 WEEKS not stop of this!!!

I hated the sneezing part and watery eyes.........had to have a box of kleenex real close, I don't understand that part but hated it. I was lucky my sneezing only lasts a couple of days.

When I was 14-15 my friend told me to sit upside down on my head on a couch, push and blow air into my head as hard as I could while he held my ears closed, and I held my nose and mouth closed so the air had nowhere to go. I pushed as hard as I could over and over for a few minutes with not having much room for the air to escape. Since I am not there, hypothetically speaking what kind of damage could have occured from all of this?

This is kind of strange but every time any form of heat turns on my nose and sinuses go crazy. I get incredible sinus pressure, my eyes water, I start sneezing continuously, and sometimes it is so hard to breath that I can't talk (It just feels like my throat is closing up). It won't take long for this to happen but it is especially fast/bad when I am in a car right next to the vent, which makes things interesting in the wintertime.

I think its because your sence of smell is more acute so your more senstive to dust particles :)

3 weeks later(right in the wheel house) I came down with a cold that came on strong with sneezing, runny nose, eyes watering and a headache. 4 days after is what really scared me when I lost my appetite for 2 days. Didn't want to eat a thing which is really weird because I love to eat!!! When I finally did get my appetite back after 2 days I had diarrhea one time in the mourning. This whole time I have been seeing this other girl and have been very cautious when we are intimate.

IF you become wobbly whilst you are testing for Romberg but your not typically loosing your balance at other times too eg no matter what your doing when ever you close your eyes when standing - washing your hair in the shower, walking into a dark environment or the light goes out on you, doing laundry/dishes, kissing, sneezing, laughing, talking etc you really could just be misinterpreting it.

I would only worry about gucky eyes if ONLY one eye is got crud in it or both eyes are cruddy and their is sneezing or breathing problems. Two cruddy eyes with no other symptoms is probably not a health concern. I hope this helped!!

Hi Dennis, I can relate a little, I´ve had a different sneezing than usually. It is like I can´t control the muscles in my mouth, and my sneezing is very "messy" instead of me usually sneezing very quietly with closed mouth for all my live (mom sneezes the same way). My sneezes changed last fall sept-oct when I was in some kind of flair (alot was happening, but begun with tight throat) and then I´ve been having a very simular kind of flare, last for over a month now.

Is anyone else besides me experiencing a lot of daily random sneezing and stuffiness like allergy symptoms while pregnant???

the same story again so eventually he got three times antibiotics and the same stuff and the sneezing now is gone but he still has a bad eye and its closed and swollen and watery, yesterday the vet took a sample from his eye to run a test and mean while i need help coz i don't know what to do to help him...i ordered l-lysin coz i heard that it helps the immune system and it may help his eye to get better, im sad and don't know what to do i already spent hundreds of euros for nothing..

I hate the sneezing sooo much I been clean now 6 days and it has been a sneezing none stop time. Today I went out with a friend he drove. My eyes hurt sooo bad from the sun light I could barley open them I did not have my glasses with me. I have got the sneezing, watery eyes and the yawning none stop also.

Huh? Your exam of walking with your eyes closed really throws me - so much I went back and watched the gait exam clip again through Temple Universit to see if that was something I missed http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/neuexam/gait_hs.htm It is not there either. How weird - yes there were several times I was asked to close my eyes. And I was also asked to walk. But never close my eyes and walk at the same time. Curious.........

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