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Login/Join to ParticipateHoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
Well today during a game of Trivial Pursuit I found out I acutally have a condition that a small percentage of people in the world have, its a condition called Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst.
In simple English it means you are a photic sneezer meaning you are a person who sneezes when exposed to bright light, autosomal bit means it is inherited, dominant means that you only need one copy of the dodgy gene to get it (rather than two for a recessive trait), compelling means you get no choice in it, Helio-Opthalmic means whenever you see bright lights and outburst means, well outburst actually.
I thought everyone sneezed when they looked directly at the sun, like most people sneeze when exposed to dust, so I was in this room and they said the answer and i was like erm.... doesnt everyone sneeze at the sun and EVERYONE in the room looked at me and went er...no, so I was one in 11 which was odd, but cool, can I ask does anyone esle here share my interesting condition, aparently its inherited over DNA too theres a 50-50 chance offspring will inherit it, and they can also inherit how many times they sneeze, mine varies from zero to about five or maybe more, its interesting and i was surprised as hell to hear that somethign I didnt even know about me was something so does anyone else here suffer from the ADCHOO syndrome? (appropriately named ey)
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1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
Lol, sometimes if i need to sneeze and i look at a bright light i do...but not everytime i look at the sun....
Achoo and peace out
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Carpal \'Tunnel
4,172 posts
Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
ADCHOO!!!
Pooh-Bah
2,084 posts
Location: melbourne, victoria, australia
whenever my boyfriend has a sneeze that he wants to get out (that makes sense doesn't it?), he looks at a bright light to induce it. i never understood why, i don't know if it's everytime he looks at bright light though. I'll ask him for you though.
b...bal...lence?....
370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
i do that as well, theres nothing worse than a sneeze that wont come, the bright light makes you unintentionally squint and that somehow helps you to sneeze. it only works for me when i wanna get one out thats hanging around, i guess it could work all the time for some people. that might help explain it....
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
WOOOOOO!!!!
im a photic sneezer too!!!!
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
1,858 posts
Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
I Do! More or less everytime I look at a bright light! Bright sunny days are a pain!
Wow, I thought everyone was like that!
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167 posts
Location: Perth, Western Australia
hey wow i have that too!!
Skinny poi maker
313 posts
Location: Moscow, Russia
When the sun is out (what actually doesnt happen too often in Moscow), i suffer... I sneeze all the thime when im in a street.. I guess, I'm with you in that =))))
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Location: everywhere
rah! and me!
not sure whether to be excited or not!
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I sneeze when I look at the sun... Sometimes.
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old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
I got taught that then a sneeze stucks in your nose and doesnt want to come out (annoying) look into the sun or any bright light... and mostly it helps...
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Location: San Francisco, USA
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Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
My poppa suffers from this... If the sun gets in his eyes he will sneeze for about 15 mins non stop.
and then look all miserable.
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284 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
when i look at the sun i just kinda go "ow... my eyes"
so... can't say i'm with ya guys on the whole ADCHOO thing... but maybe that's where the whole sneezes being called achoo things come from.... i mean... when you sneeze it doesn't really sound like achoo... does it?
~Z
Clean for 6 months and counting... ah yeah, that's nice.
Scientist!
578 posts
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I agree with Zim. The only thing sun-looking-at induces for me is burnt out rods in my eyes ^.^' and big spots where ever I look for the next half hour.
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old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
OUt of curiousity did you know the answer to the question?
Respect due if you did.
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1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
Wait, i also sneeze if i listen to rap music....wierd...
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Pooh-Bah
1,750 posts
Location: london, United Kingdom
If i feel a sneeze coming on, I can help it along by looking towards a bright light.
I wonder how people sneezed before some clever folk invented the word achoo!
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old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
we have another one but sounds similar..Hatschi
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,384 posts
Location: mancunian, United Kingdom
isnt it weird how peeps still manage to remember to say a word such as achoo and hatschi in the milliseconds during a sneeze......? hmmmmmm will have to think on that one
i know i know im weird
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*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Yeah my brother does that.
Strange. I just asked him that and then sneezed. haha
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I found this web site while researching ADCHOO Syndrome for my children and grand children. (No wise cracks about age, K?) My children's father made me laugh when he sneezed EVERYTIME he looked at the sun. Then came the kids...5 of them. Mostly our 2 sons suffered. Then came my grandchildren...mostly our grandsons suffered. I have never known anyone else to have this, but it runs rampant in this family of males! (Including the # of sneezes which run in 3's +) This morning's news cast had a little documentary on it, so I started searching and found you guys. The news brief said it ocurrs in less than 10% of the population, it IS hereditary, and predominant in males of the family, although females suffer, too. I sent them all your web site so they could comment. I suggested to them one thing...
...I'm hilarious, I know...Norma-Mother of many SUN/SON sneezers
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PS Gott segne dich!
Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
my whole family sneezes in bright light..it must look quite funny when we're all together and the sun comes out and we all start sneezing.
its horrid when you're driving....if only you could keep your eyes open when you sneezed!
Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Here are some early thoughts on the subject of light sneezing from Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum (London: John Haviland for William Lee, 1635, page 170): '
Looking against the Sunne, doth induce Sneezing. The Cause is, not the Heating of the Nosthrils; For then the Holding up of the Nostrills against the Sunne, though one Winke, would doe it; But the Drawing downe of the Moisture of the Braine. For it will make the Eyes run with Water; And the Drawing of Moisture to the Eyes, doth draw it to the Nosthrills, by Motion of Consent; And so followeth Sneezing; As contrariwise, the Tickling of the Nosthrills within, doth draw the Moisture to the Nosthrills, and to the Eyes by Consent; For they also will Water. But yet, it hath been observed, that if one be about to Sneeze, the Rubbing of the Eyes, till they run with Water, will prevent it. Whereof the Cause is, for that the Humour, which was descending to the Nosthrills, is diverted to the Eyes.'
New Scientist
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