MCQ IN 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: -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-3: -Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue every time you cough or sneeze. Throw the used tissue in a waste basket. If you don’t have a tissue, sneeze or cough into your sleeve.