Bizarre condition triggers sneezing after sex

Thinking about sex or experiencing an orgasm sends some people into an uncontrolled bout of sneezing, and according to two researchers the problem may be more common than the medical profession had realised.The doctors who investigated the link are not yet sure why sex and sneezing are linked in some people, but they suspect it is due to a faulty connection in the autonomic nervous system – the system that exercises unconscious control of, among other things, heart rate, digestion and pupil dilation.Dr Harold Maxwell, a consultant psychiatrist at West Middlesex University Hospital in London, was first alerted to the condition when a middle-aged male patient described uncontrollable fits of sneezing whenever he thought about sex. When Maxwell and his colleague Mahmood Bhutta, a surgeon at Wexham Park Hospital near Slough set out to investigate how common the problem is they could find only one similar case in the medical...

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