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Hello hay fever—why pressing under your nose could stop a sneeze but why you shouldn’t
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Hello hay fever—why pressing under your nose could stop a sneeze but why you shouldn’t

by Theresa Larkin and Jessica Nealon, The Conversation Henry Gray’s anatomical illustration of the trigeminal nerve. Credit: Gray’s Anatomy/Wikimedia CommonsIf you have hay fever, you’ve probably been sneezing a lot lately. Sneezing is universal but also quite unique to each of us. It is a protective reflex action outside our conscious control, to remove irritants from...