Lots of people suppress their sneezes – and they really need to let them out...
While your eyeballs may not pop out from suppressing a sneeze, you could be doing some other serious damage. Your body is trying to expel air at a whopping speed of 100 miles per hour. With nowhere else to go, when a sneeze is suppressed, that pressure is forced into the Eustachian tube which connects the back of the throat to the inner ear.
By holding in that sneeze, you could actually wind up rupturing your eardrum. Some other risks associated with suppressing a sneeze include fractures in the nasal cartilage, hearing loss, vertigo and other injuries affecting the structures in the head.
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