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| What is the right way to sneeze? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 12 2006, 10:04 AM (199 Views) | |
| kenny | Oct 12 2006, 10:04 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yesterday I heard on the radio that they were going to teach us how to sneeze properly later. I missed it. What could it be? Hold your nose closed tightly? Don't hold your nose? Cover your mouth and nose gently to reduce the pressure? Anyone? |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 12 2006, 10:06 AM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I don't cover my mouth because the point of a sneeze it to get the germs as far away from me as possible. |
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| apple | Oct 12 2006, 10:06 AM Post #3 |
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one of the angels
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when someone sneezes say "knock knock" wait for them to say 'who's there?' and then say "God" wait for them to say 'God who?' and then say God Bless You! |
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| Dave Spelvin | Oct 12 2006, 10:15 AM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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You're probably too young to remember, but there was a tv ad many years ago in which a man sat on a pole to raise awareness of the spread of germs by sneezing without covering one's mouth. He'd been up there, I don't know, a decade, and on his way down, someone on the ground sneezed without the appropriate hand to mouth. The poor man shimmied his way back up the pole, and as far as I know, he's up there still. That man is talking to you, IT. Say you're sorry and cover your mouth. Not simultaneously, or we won't hear you apologize. |
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| Optimistic | Oct 12 2006, 10:19 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Just so long as you remember to close your eyes.
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| kenny | Oct 12 2006, 10:21 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| John D'Oh | Oct 12 2006, 10:21 AM Post #7 |
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MAMIL
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I always sneeze into a handkerchief or tissue, or if one isn't readily available, onto my shirt sleeve. I then leave the soiled item under the chair of someone I don't like, in the hope that their immune system will be unable to cope with the additional germs and they'll become sick. Yesterday, I was asked to go home as I was inappropriately dressed. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| apple | Oct 12 2006, 10:23 AM Post #8 |
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one of the angels
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you are supposed to sneeze or cough into the crook of your elbow you already have the germs - breathing them back in will not make you sicker wash your arm or change your clothes afterwards. |
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| George K | Oct 12 2006, 10:32 AM Post #9 |
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Here's an interesting piece of OR etiquette for sneezing. Let's suppose you're the surgeon looking down on someone's beating heart. You have to sneeze, and you can't use your hands. What will you do? What WILL you do? I've been told (and bach can correct me if I'm wrong) that you're NOT supposed to look away. Keep looking at the wound and sneeze. Seems that all those goobers go flying out of the sides of your mask, and turning your head points them at the patient. Keeping your head straight redirects them to your sides. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Optimistic | Oct 12 2006, 10:32 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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what a great mental image :lol: |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 12 2006, 10:34 AM Post #11 |
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MAMIL
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It also explains why they wear green gowns. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| sue | Oct 12 2006, 10:46 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Disgusting images and hospital nightmare material aside, isn't there something about sitting, or bending over? when you sneeze to avoid throwing your back out? This would be for old people only, of course. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 12 2006, 11:21 AM Post #13 |
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MAMIL
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My dad gave himself a hernia sneezing, although he does have the second loudest sneezes I've ever heard. I'm too much of a gentleman to say who has the loudest. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| George K | Oct 12 2006, 11:25 AM Post #14 |
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I blew out my L5S1 lumbar disc with a sneeze. Pain shot down my left leg, and I haven't felt my little toe since that day (in 1998!). |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Oct 12 2006, 11:46 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Whoa.... that's quite scary. x |
| x Caroline x | |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 12 2006, 12:11 PM Post #16 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I think the surgical mask scenario is scarier |
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| kenny | Oct 12 2006, 12:25 PM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think you can harm you sinuses if you plug your nose very tightly or if you don't cover your nose or mouth at all. Something about the pressure. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 12 2006, 12:40 PM Post #18 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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All that counts is sans projectiles. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Riley | Oct 12 2006, 07:33 PM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If you feel a sneeze coming, say the word "Purple", and the sneeze goes away. That is what I was told last week. Upon attemting it, it seemed to consistantly actually work. Maybe the way your nose and mouth move when you say the word? |
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| The 89th Key | Oct 13 2006, 05:53 AM Post #20 |
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You should never, ever fight a sneeze. You should sneeze out, relaxed, but try to cover or direct it as much as possible, like away from the person you're talking to or into your shoulder. Luckily almost every sneeze I have is very dry, so I don't worry about it too much. I threw my back out one time on a sneeze, just some how I tensed up just as I sneezed and a muscle in my back pulled the wrong way and I spent a couple weeks with a very sore back. The REAL question is...what is the right way to say "Bless you"? The answer: NEVER SAY IT!
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| Optimistic | Oct 13 2006, 06:16 AM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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No way! I love to sneeze. Getting that tickle out of your nose is great. Whenever I have a cold, some of the best moments of my day are sneezes. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| kenny | Oct 13 2006, 06:19 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| The 89th Key | Oct 13 2006, 06:26 AM Post #23 |
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Yes, Kenny...and that is a very wet sneeze. |
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