A hole in your throat is nothing to sneeze at, as shown by a case report recently published in BMJ Case Reports. And the case report showed the dangers of pinching your nose and closing your mouth in ...

A man pinched his nose and closed his mouth to stifle a sneeze, which can increase the pressure in the upper airways by up to 20 times Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team.

A man suffered a first-of-its kind injury when he tried to stifle a sneeze while driving by pinching his nose, doctors said. The man, in his 30s, had a history of allergic rhinitis, or throat ...

Here’s a scary lesson about why you shouldn’t hold in your sneezes. In a case report this month, doctors in the UK describe a man in his 30s who tore open his windpipe by holding his nose and mouth ...

With cold and flu season underway, one would hope others would be considerate enough to cough and sneeze into the crook of their elbow, slowing down the spread of contagious droplets into the air ...

The patient: A man in his 30s in the U.K. The symptoms: The patient arrived at the emergency department in severe pain and with a swollen neck that he struggled to move. He reported that the pain had ...

On an otherwise ordinary day in Dundee, Scotland, a man in his 30s stifled a sneeze while driving—and tore a hole in his throat. He pinched his nose shut, closed his mouth, and felt a sudden explosion ...

The stifled sneeze tore through the lining of the man’s trachea, doctor’s said, as seen on X-ray marked by the black arrow. BMJ Case Reports A man suffered a first-of-its kind injury when he tried to ...