• Question: What makes you sneeze

    Asked by lauryn2000 to Sinead on 11 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Sinead Cullen

      Sinead Cullen answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Hi Lauryn

      A sneeze is your bodys way of getting rid of something that has irritated it!

      When the inside of your nose gets a tickle, a message is sent to your brain. Your brain then sends messages to muscles that have to work together to create the amazingly complicated process that we call the sneeze.

      Some of the muscles involved are the belly muscles, the chest muscles, the diaphragm which is the large muscle beneath your lungs that makes you breathe, the muscles that control your vocal cords, and muscles in the back of your throat.
      Don’t forget the eyelid muscles! Did you notice that you always close your eyes when you sneeze?

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