Sneezing question

[gottasneeze1]

Hi, I just have a question I'm curious about. When you sneeze, how much of the air passes through your nose vs your mouth? I know that when I sneeze, some of the air is definitely coming from my nose, but that most of it comes from my mouth. Do you guys sneeze the same way?

[Rhomberg Rabbit]

All mouth.

[March Hare]

Good question!

I think it's sort of equally distributed with me. I tend to do that "tsch" sound with my teeth together. But when I stifle it gets all collected in my mouth, sort of, and then I blow it out. And that sounds weird, but I think you know what I mean.

[NoV]

I reckon about 80% through the mouth, 20% through the nose - in my experience anyway

[murphy dee]

I think I'm definitely all mouth. Spit flies, it's not pretty.

[streetclub54]

Mostly mouth for me but still some nose

[gottasneeze1]

Thanks for all the good answers. I'd say it's usually about 85% mouth, 15% nose for me. During one of my normal, random sneezes, most of the spray definitely comes from my mouth. But when I sneeze with a runny nose, it tends to get really messy.

[retrofan191]

OK I'm probably just weird but for me, naturally it mostly comes though my mouth, but I specifically sneeze through my nose because it seems to be what nature had in mind when it designed the sneeze

[sneezybreezy]

It varies with me, if I'm in public it is 70% mouth in the first part of the sneeze and 30% nose in the second part. Usually it is about 90/10 mouth to nose everywhere else.

[Mf1611]

i think it just depends on how u sneeze in how much comes out the mouth and how much comes out the nose

[ccv]

All the spray comes from my mouth. Usually nothing comes from my nose.

[FreeFluShots]

I think most of it comes from my mouth, unless I'm inducing, then it seems to be more concentrated through the nose.

[Sneezologist123]

I think it's pretty much all mouth for me.

[Hiding in the corner]

Mostly from mouth with me too.

I'm actually little curious of this. I wonder when you sneeze the most air comes from the mouth when it's the nose trying to get rid of the irritant, so why the air comes from the mouth?

Sorry if it sounds stupid...

[Kuchafya613]

Pretty much 100% mouth.

[Sneezologist123]

Mostly from mouth with me too.

I'm actually little curious of this. I wonder when you sneeze the most air comes from the mouth when it's the nose trying to get rid of the irritant, so why the air comes from the mouth?

Sorry if it sounds stupid...

I've wondered about that too. Sneezing is obviously doing something though, because it gets rid of the tickle in your nose.

[Hiding in the corner]

Mostly from mouth with me too.

I'm actually little curious of this. I wonder when you sneeze the most air comes from the mouth when it's the nose trying to get rid of the irritant, so why the air comes from the mouth?

Sorry if it sounds stupid...

I've wondered about that too. Sneezing is obviously doing something though, because it gets rid of the tickle in your nose.

Atleast what it feels to me is that the sneeze makes my nose bit numb afterwards, not sure if the irritant is blown off or if i just cant feel it anymore.

[Sneezologist123]

I know the feeling that you're talking about, but I think there has to be more to it than that. Once that numbness from the sneeze wore off, we'd probably have to sneeze again, and we usually don't. Here's something I found that's kind of interesting-

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698771200028X

[Paul]

It varies with me, if I'm in public it is 70% mouth in the first part of the sneeze and 30% nose in the second part. Usually it is about 90/10 mouth to nose everywhere else.

How do you do that?

And for me I'd say mostly mouth.

[Boba]

All mouth for me too. Drives me craaaazy, if I ever sneeze and don't stifle, I spit all over myself. UUUGH. Spit is like my least favorite thing ever haha.

Most of the time I stifle, though. Then it's like kind of in the back of my throat. I just stop it before it can come out and hold it like in my chest, so it doesn't come through to my nose / mouth / ears / anything. The pressure is just in the very back of my throat and totally silent lol.