This is just a myth; it only feels like your heart stops. A lot of pressure builds up in the chest, and that pressure spike may momentarily change the rhythm of your heartbeat, but it won’t stop your heart.
A sneeze begins with a tickling in the nerve endings that tells the brain it has to get rid of something irritating the lining of the nose. A person takes a deep breath and holds it, the chest muscles tighten, the eyes close, the tongue presses up against the roof of the mouth, and “ah choo,” the breath comes out the nose and mouth at speeds up to 100 mph. And it can spray up to five feet.
A heartbeat starts with a small bundle of tissue called the sino-atrial node, located in the upper part of a chamber of the heart called the right atrium. This natural pacemaker sends electrical impulses down to the right and left atria, then the ventricles to start that once-a-second heartbeat. Sneezing may affect the rhythm of the heart and may even cause the heart to “skip a beat,” or throw the whole beat off, but in no way can it stop the heart. So sneeze away, but cover it up!
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Dipesh Benarji
This is just a myth; it only feels like your heart stops. A lot of pressure builds up in the chest, and that pressure spike may momentarily change the rhythm of your heartbeat, but it won’t stop your heart.
A sneeze begins with a tickling in the nerve endings that tells the brain it has to get rid of something irritating the lining of the nose. A person takes a deep breath and holds it, the chest muscles tighten, the eyes close, the tongue presses up against the roof of the mouth, and “ah choo,” the breath comes out the nose and mouth at speeds up to 100 mph. And it can spray up to five feet.
A heartbeat starts with a small bundle of tissue called the sino-atrial node, located in the upper part of a chamber of the heart called the right atrium. This natural pacemaker sends electrical impulses down to the right and left atria, then the ventricles to start that once-a-second heartbeat. Sneezing may affect the rhythm of the heart and may even cause the heart to “skip a beat,” or throw the whole beat off, but in no way can it stop the heart. So sneeze away, but cover it up!