CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw used tissues in the trash. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow, not your hands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coughing or sneezing into the elbow has been widely recommended as an intervention to reduce respiratory virus transmission. The World Health Organization (WHO) advises to cover the mouth and nose with a flexed elbow or tissue when coughing and sneezing.

Detailed explanation-3: -During a sneeze, the soft palate and palatine uvula depress while the back of the tongue elevates to partially close the passage to the mouth so that air ejected from the lungs may be expelled through the nose (Mygind, 1997). Due to a partially closed mouth, a large amount of the air is also expelled from the mouth.

Detailed explanation-4: -“If the sneeze is held in by pinching the nose or holding the mouth closed, this pressurized air is forced back through the Eustachian tube and into the middle ear cavity.”