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Proper sneezing etiquette
By: ladylike123 Date: February 4, 2020, 8:34 pm
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With it being flu season and all, I've been hearing about how
you should sneeze into your sleeve and not your hands. The thing
is whenever I do this, it leaves a visible wet spot on my
sleeve, which is quite embarrassing. Does this happen to anyone
else?
Just this week, I sneezed in front of a customer (I work in a
mall) and she had kind of grimaced while looking right at the
wet patch on my sleeve and even muttered "eww" under her breath.
Would you consider this to be bad etiquette on my part?
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Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: TootsNYC Date: February 4, 2020, 8:38 pm
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I think you're actually supposed to sneeze onto the floor and
cough onto your elbow.
Maybe it's just little kids who are supposed to do that.
Anyway, lots of mention of tissues.
I tend to use my elbow; if I think it's going to be really wet,
I use my hand and just be sure to wash after. Or wipe off with a
tissue and get out the hand sanitizer.
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Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: Sycorax Date: February 4, 2020, 8:41 pm
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The problem with sneezing into your hands is that now you have
covered your hands with germs, whether you can see them or not.
If you are going to immediately wash them, it's probably fine,
otherwise you're going to be spreading germs everywhere you
touch.
Maybe for you a handkerchief would work better?
#Post#: 46708--------------------------------------------------
Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: gramma dishes Date: February 4, 2020, 9:08 pm
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Over the years I have heard from and read in numerous sources
that it is better to sneeze into a tissue than a handkerchief
because somehow most germs are trapped in the tissue that will
go right through a piece of actual cloth. Supposedly said germs
won't leave the tissue even when the tissue is discarded into a
trash receptacle.
If you have no time to grab a tissue, try sneezing into the
crook of your elbow or the underside of your arm where a slight
bit of dampness might not be so noticeable? ???
#Post#: 46709--------------------------------------------------
Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: Sycorax Date: February 4, 2020, 9:11 pm
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My husband always folds his handkerchief up, so that he's always
got a few layers going on. I don't see how a single layer of
facial tissue would be any better.
#Post#: 46827--------------------------------------------------
Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: ladylike123 Date: February 6, 2020, 11:13 am
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[quote author=gramma dishes link=topic=1620.msg46708#msg46708
date=1580872112]
If you have no time to grab a tissue, try sneezing into the
crook of your elbow or the underside of your arm where a slight
bit of dampness might not be so noticeable? ???
[/quote]
I do sneeze into the crook of my elbow, but I feel like the
dampness is noticeable no matter which part of your arm you
sneeze on.
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Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: ladylike123 Date: February 6, 2020, 11:18 am
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[quote author=TootsNYC link=topic=1620.msg46704#msg46704
date=1580870318]
I think you're actually supposed to sneeze onto the floor and
cough onto your elbow.
[/quote]
Where did you hear that from? Although it would prevent anything
wet from getting on yourself, I imagine sneezing onto the floor
would still spread germs.
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Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: myfamily Date: February 6, 2020, 11:36 am
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[quote author=TootsNYC link=topic=1620.msg46704#msg46704
date=1580870318]
I think you're actually supposed to sneeze onto the floor and
cough onto your elbow.
Maybe it's just little kids who are supposed to do that.
Anyway, lots of mention of tissues.
I tend to use my elbow; if I think it's going to be really wet,
I use my hand and just be sure to wash after. Or wipe off with a
tissue and get out the hand sanitizer.
[/quote]
Sneezing onto the floor is still going to spread the germs you
just sneezed out of your body just the same as if you sneezed
without trying to protect anyone.
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Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: myfamily Date: February 6, 2020, 11:36 am
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[quote author=ladylike123 link=topic=1620.msg46827#msg46827
date=1581009215]
[quote author=gramma dishes link=topic=1620.msg46708#msg46708
date=1580872112]
If you have no time to grab a tissue, try sneezing into the
crook of your elbow or the underside of your arm where a slight
bit of dampness might not be so noticeable? ???
[/quote]
I do sneeze into the crook of my elbow, but I feel like the
dampness is noticeable no matter which part of your arm you
sneeze on.
[/quote]
Chances are that no one is really noticing it, it is more you
are self-conscious about it.
#Post#: 46851--------------------------------------------------
Re: Proper sneezing etiquette
By: ladylike123 Date: February 6, 2020, 2:47 pm
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[quote author=myfamily link=topic=1620.msg46832#msg46832
date=1581010615]
Chances are that no one is really noticing it, it is more you
are self-conscious about it.
[/quote]
Actually I recently had an incident where someone did notice,
which is what made me a bit more self conscious. I updated my
original post.
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