# Anyone die from sneezing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977 "2014-11-07T14:07:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977/1 "2014-11-07T14:07:51Z")

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Ever?

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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977/2 "2014-11-07T14:17:18Z")

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As it happens, that most reliable of all British newspapers, _The Daily Mail_, recently covered such a case: [Teenager SNEEZES to death: Mother’s despair after 17-year-old son suffers a brain haemorrhage following a sneezing fit](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2591480/Teenager-SNEEZES-death-Mothers-despair-17-year-old-son-suffers-brain-haemorrhage-following-sneezing-fit.html)

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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977/3 "2014-11-07T15:59:06Z")

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I was always taught not to hold a sneeze back and it alarms me when I see someone’s head about to explode as they hold their nose and sneeze.

[this](http://www.livescience.com/32776-is-it-safe-to-hold-in-a-sneeze.html) from Live Science:

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> “I wouldn’t recommend suppressing a sneeze by any method, whether by pinching one’s nose or consciously sneezing into a closed throat,” said Alan Wild, a head and neck surgeon and assistant professor of otolaryngology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. ~
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> So what might happen if you don’t follow the doctor’s advice? Probably nothing.

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**Author:** ![Henryunderborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Henryunderborn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henryunderborn)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977/4 "2014-11-07T16:20:43Z")

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I just let out a monstrous one, that locked up my entire torso/joints.

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**Author:** ![Anita\_Dayoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Anita\_Dayoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Dayoff)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977/5 "2014-11-07T16:25:15Z")

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Friend of a friend held a sneeze in and stroked with a bleed.

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**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-die-from-sneezing/703977/6 "2014-11-08T05:36:51Z")

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I’d be willing to bet someone’s died from sneezing while they were driving. So maybe indirectly…