How To Sneeze Better

Learn a better, and safer, way to sneeze. You may be doing it all wrong.

You've always been told, "Cover your nose and mouth!" and "Use a tissue!" You don't want to spread your germs around and make other people sick. Partially right.

If you sneeze into your hands or a kleenex, what do you do next? Go right to a sink and wash your hands? Sometimes. So what happens to the germs the other times?

You get sneeze germs all over your hands. Even if you use a kleenex. Then you touch a phone, a doorknob, food, store merchandise, someone else's hand... the possibilities for transmission are endless.

What's a nose to do? Head for cover in the crook of your arm, the bend of your elbow. Use your sleeve! That's the latest recommendation from the health techies.

The material in your shirt or sweater sleeve will trap the germs and let them dry out and die. Do this, and you'll prevent germs from finding a new (unwilling) host who would be forced to aid and abet their propagation.

Course, you might have a problem if you're wearing something sleevless. Any material you don't touch with your hands will do. (Maybe someone else's sleeve?)

Never mind the Yuck factor. All sneezes have Yuck potential. Now you've been told. So the time has come for you to be socially correct. It's the right thing to do!