Stifling a sneeze in a quiet room feels like good manners. For one 45-year-old woman, doctors report, the habit ended with air trapped inside her skull and spinal fluid dripping out of her nose.
Her case was published in the American Journal of Case Reports by an ear, nose and throat team in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. She was previously healthy, with no head injury, no sinus surgery, and no connective tissue disease. She came to the clinic after three months of mild headaches that eased when she lay flat, along with intermittent watery discharge from her left nostril that appeared when she bent forward.
