A third wrote: "Oh yeah sorry my pet peeve -- people who judge others for involuntarily sneezing."

Milton, M.D., MPH, professor of environmental health in the University of Maryland School of Public Health and lead researcher of this study said, "We found that flu cases contaminated the air around them with the infectious virus just by breathing, without coughing or sneezing".

It is felt that brachycephalic dogs (with short muzzles) like Boxers may be prone to this, but even dogs with longer muzzles may have bouts of reverse sneezing. For example, Corgis are prone to this, too.

There are also flu viruses that can cause nasal irritation and chronic sneezing. Swabs can be taken to look for these.

The Sneeve is a soft, stretchy, absorbent sleeve that kids wear over their arms, shirts, sweaters, sweatshirts or pajamas to catch germs when sneezing. The Centers for Disease Control recommends coughing and sneezing into the upper sleeve to help stop germs from spreading.

For some tips and advice on training, have a look at our website www.pdsa.org.uk/dogbehaviour Q: My guinea pig Whisper keeps sneezing. Could she have a cold?

We frequently see people sneezing in the public without covering their mouths with their hands thus putting people in their surrounding at the risk of contracting various contagious viruses.

Anne suffers not from an excess of husbandly devotion, the kind that results in gifts every Valentine's Day of outsized teddy bears, but from sternutation, an ostentatious word for sneezing.

ASOLDIER has been cleared of killing a married couple in a car crash when he suffered a sneezing fit at the wheel.

In the case of reverse sneezing, however, sounds and appearance usually deceive.

ISLAMABAD -- Hubble space telescope has discovered a star in the midst of a sneezing fit.

If I could make a hard and fast decree for all of society that we stop blessing people for sneezing and instead cheer them on for burping or hiccupping, I'd wave my scepter (I'd surely have a scepter in this scenario), and make it so.

Apart from the problem of keeping ourselves warm, there is an increase in the number of viruses spread through coughing and sneezing. In order to stay as healthy as possible through the winter months, there are a number of issues that we should be aware of.

Each sneezing fit produces another unpredictable discharge: "Achoo!" and a bunny spews out; "Achoo!" and a steak emerges; "Achoo!" and a lightbulb somehow appears.