Blocking Your Nose and Mouth while sneezing can be hazardous to your health.

Blocking your nose and mouth in an attempt to hold in or stop a sneeze can lead to a number of complications from an injury to the throat, to a burst eardrum, trapped air in the chest between the lungs (pseudomediastinum) and even rupture of an aneurysm (a ballooning blood vessel) in the brain if one is present. So next time you feel the need to sneeze, don’t try to suppress it, simply follow nature’s course and ‘achoo!’