Duh, pagi ini tiba-tiba jadi bersin-bersin gini. Gara-gara Bandung dah kembali menjadi Bandung yang dingin karena hujan yang setiap hari turun, jadi banyak korban berjatuhan.

Iseng-iseng googling tentang bersin di internet, berikut beberapa fakta tentang bersin. Pada bisa bahasa inggris kan? Males terjemahin ke Indonesia {$lang_emotions_spiteful}

  • Sneezing is the body’s way of removing irritants. Almost anything that irritates the nose can trigger a sneezing fit, including dust, strong smells, temperature changes and infections. Allergic people also sneeze, because they release irritant chemicals like histamine into the nose when they come into contact with allergens like dust mite, pollens or animals. Histamine irritates nerve endings (triggering sneeze and itch), makes bloods vessels in the nose swell and leak fluid (blocked nose) and drives mucus glands to work harder (runny nose). That is why antihistamines can help allergies.
  • Sneezing is a complex reflex. It starts with irritation of the lining of the nose, and ends in an explosion of air from the nose and mouth. Nerve impulses travel from the nose to the brain, then back to other nerves that control the muscle of the abdomen, chest, diaphragm, neck, face and eyelids as well as the mucus glands and blood vessels of the nose. That’s why we always end up closing our eyes when we sneeze, and why the nose often runs afterwards.
  • The material spread by sneezing can travel 2-3 metres, at a speed of around 150 km/hour, so it’s a very efficient way of spreading germs.
  • Some people sneeze when they pluck their eyebrows, get cold or go out into the sun. “Sun sneezing (Photic sneezing)” often runs in families, and occurs in around one in four people.
  • You can’t keep your eyes open when you sneeze.
  • The world record for sneezing is held by Donna Griffiths from Worstershire in the UK, who sneezed for 978 days in a row, stopping on 16 September 1983.
  • The fastest recorded sneeze clocked in at 165 kilometers an hour.
  • Some cultures have considered sneezing as a sign of good fortune whereas others have seen it as an omen of death. Indeed, the saying “God Bless You” is thought to have arisen during the Bubonic Plague of the 6th century, where sneezing was one of its early symptoms.

Here’s one thing you should carefully considered:

  •   If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die!