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The dangers of sneezing – from ejected bowels to torn windpipes

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par Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University

If you were to envision the kind of accident that would cause a person’s bowels to explode out of their body, you might imagine some sort of gruesome stabbing or grisly car accident. You’d probably never imagine that something as commonplace and harmless as a sneeze would cause this kind of ghastly injury – but that’s exactly what happened to a Florida man earlier this month.

The man had recently had abdominal surgery and was suffering from wound…

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