Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

As always, Olivia and I will be taking you on an educational journey.

We do have a special treat this week, though.

For the first time, Olivia will be interviewing an expert on the topic we will be getting curious about.

Olivia, why don't you tell everyone what we are

getting curious about this week? This week we're curious about sneezing. Oh, that's going to be so much

fun. We are going to spend a few minutes discussing how sneezes work, and then we will have a special

guest later on that will give us even more

insight into sneezing. Like we've done before, I'm going to start this podcast off with a

question for you to think about, that we will answer at the end of the podcast. The question for this

week is, does your heart stop while you were sneezing? Okay, let's start by

explaining why we sneeze. Olivia, do you know what makes us sneeze? Something should get in

your nose and sneezing gets it out. That's right. Sometimes things get into your nose that don't belong there, like dust or pollen.

When enough of that yucky stuff gets in your nose, it makes us sneeze.

And Olivia, why do you think most people usually sneeze two or three times when they have to sneeze?

Because you can't always get it out in one sneeze.

That's right. Sometimes you can't get all the yucky stuff out of your nose in just one sneeze,

so you have to sneeze two or three times to get rid of all the germs and dirt and stuff that doesn't belong in your nose.

And amazing things happen when we sneeze. For example, when we sneeze, droplets come out of the

nose and mouth. A single sneeze can release up to 40,000 droplets from the nose and mouth. Those

droplets can travel at almost 100 miles per hour. There are other things that happen to your body when you sneeze

that you may not

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