Two UK doctors believe that uncontrolled sneezing triggered by erotic thoughts is an under-diagnosed problem. Prompted by a middle-aged patient who described suffering bouts of sneezing whenever he thought about sex, the pair tried to get to the bottom of the phenomenon.
They found just one similar case in the medical literature – a case reported in 1972 of a 69-year-old man who suffered severe sneezing after orgasm. But a trawl of online chatrooms threw up lots of people who claimed to experience the problem. "It may also be seen as embarrassing and people perhaps don't want to talk about it," said Mahmood Bhutta a surgeon at Wexham Park Hospital near Slough and one of the authors.
They point out that other seemingly unconnected stimuli can trigger sneezing, such as bright light, plucking eyebrow hairs and having a full stomach.
So does sex, or even just thinking about sex, make you sneeze? Or maybe other odd things set you off?
