Frequent Sneezing

Sneezing is one of the most radical movements your body is capable of. In a single reflex, the air in your airways accelerates to up to 150 kilometers per hour to catapult something out that has no business being there. It's not a gentle little cough, not a soft clearing of the throat — it's an explosion. In fractions of a second, your body decides: this has to go. Right now. With full force.

From a medical standpoint, sneezing is a protective reflex. An irritant hits the mucous membrane, nerve endings fire, the diaphragm contracts, the respiratory muscles tense — and the foreign body flies out. A single sneeze is nothing. An occasional fit is nothing. But when sneezing becomes chronic, when you sneeze in series every day, when hardly a day passes without your body going into this ejection reflex multiple times — then it's more than an irritation. Then it's a permanent construction site.