I always get people telling me to look up at the light to sneeze, which I know is a phenomenon but I never hear anyone talk about mint.
Something about fresh air just tickles my nose and makes me sneeze. It’s especially great when I have a mouthful of minty toothpaste.
Or perhaps I’m just allergic to going outside.
During cold weather people are more likely to burn things in chimneys and etc.
The effect is subtle but extremely widespread. I also end up sneezing in cold air purely because that’s when people start burning stuff!
That wouldn’t explain the mint for me though.
I can’t say for certain, but I doubt particulates are the issue. Or I would be sneezing every time I walk close to a road.
I have to sneeze too when I eat mints.
I feel validated
Or perhaps I’m just allergic to going outside.
Welcome to my life
I got tested and am allergic to everything outside down to grass :D
Something about fresh air just tickles my nose
Maybe this has happened to me? It is less obvious than the sun sneezing thing. I mean I see the sun, sneeze exactly twice. Every time. But fresh air tickles? I guess I thought it was a normal time to sneeze and not a similar cross-sensory phenomenon.
Mints have not ever done this to me. But I do enjoy vaporub.
I already knew about the “photic sneeze reflex”, and I know someone who sneezes exactly 2 times when temperature changes (and very loudly), but not from mint afaik.
I have the mint thing. Also happens with dark chocolate/other bitter foods
This. A very dark chocolate or a peppermint/candy cane will get me. I also do the sun thing.
Bitter foods, huh. I don’t have that.
Do you also have the thing with cold/fresh air?
Haven’t noticed it with cold air before
I sneeze after breakfast, repeatedly. Apparently that is called the sniation reflex.
I know someone who sneezes exactly 3 times after they start chewing a piece of gum.
Not from mint but I started to sneeze when smelling coffee for a while now
I usually sneeze when I go out in the cold because it somehow tickles my nose, but only once, then the tickling is gone.
Right?
Do you also have it with the “fresh” sensation of peppermint?
No, not with peppermint, just the cold, and only when it’s around freezing.
Curious. Thank you for sharing
