Plucking Eyebrows Makes Me Sneeze
A branch of the trigeminal nerve extends around the eye and down to the nose.
Plucking eyebrows makes me sneeze. The sneezing center then sends impulses back along the facial nerve to your nasal passages mucus glands blood vessels and eyelids which is the reason you close your eyes when you sneeze. Sometimes when plucking your eyebrows that nerve is stimulated. Some doctors speculate that even though the impulses aren t coming from the nose the stimulation generated by eyebrow plucking makes the entire nerve more sensitive and makes it very easy for enough impulses to reach the sneezing center to generate a sneeze.
But the pain of plucking can cause a fake sneeze signal in nearby nerve endings. Streicher says she holds the skin very tightly when shaping clients eyebrows in order to reduce pain and it doesn t have an effect on sneezing at all. So we talked to someone who has a lot of experience with plucking.
Tweezing our eyebrows can make our bodies behave in mysterious ways. Eyebrow plucking excites a branch of the nerve that supplies your nasal passages. The reason that many people sneeze when they tweeze their eyebrows is that the eyebrows and the nose are both innervated by the trigeminal nerve says new york dermatologist eric schweiger md.
Plucking a hair from your eyebrow stimulates a nearby branch of the nerve that services your nasal passages and thus can instigate the process that. Some doctors speculate that even though the impulses aren t coming from the nose the stimulation generated by eyebrow plucking makes the entire nerve more sensitive and makes it very easy for enough impulses to reach the sneezing center to generate a sneeze. Some people sneeze with almost every hair.
You may be able to avoid sneezing by pressing your finger anywhere against your eyebrow as you tweeze which according to dr. Luis trained as a zoologist but now works. An ordinary sneeze is triggered by sensory signals sent from the nose along the trigeminal nerve.
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