What if we sneeze with our eyes closed?
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Your chest expands in response, your lungs fill with air and then you sneeze everywhere. ... You may shut your eyelids so that when you sneeze out germs they don't fall on your eyes. Or maybe your eyes shut because they are one of a series of muscles that tighten during that involuntary response.
Your chest expands in response, your lungs fill with air and then you sneeze everywhere. ... You may shut your eyelids so that when you sneeze out germs they don't fall on your eyes. Or maybe your eyes shut because they are one of a series of muscles that tighten during that involuntary response.
Perhaps people close their eyes while sneezing to prevent the expelled particles from entering their eyes, Huston said. "By automatically shutting the eyelids when a sneeze occurs, more irritants can potentially be prevented from entering and aggravating the eyes," Huston said.