Why does dust make us sneeze?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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There are lots of reasons to sneeze - you have a cold, you get a whiff of pepper or someone tickles your nose with a feather! But why is it that dust makes us sneeze? We asked otolaryngologist Laura Orvidas to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s gathering dust in your brain? Send it to us atBrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help you sniff out the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:05.9	Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um.
0:09.2	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Goldfield. And I'm talking really quietly because I'm in a big old library.
0:20.2	Um.
0:20.8	I have so many questions old library. Um.
0:25.2	I have so many questions for a moment of um to research,
0:29.1	so I thought I would take a library trip to stock up on books.
0:32.7	There's one on barnacles that's way up on this shelf.
0:33.3	Hang on.
0:35.9	Got it.
0:38.9	I guess nobody's read this book in a while.
0:39.8	It's so dusty.
0:41.3	Let me just... Oh, no, I got dust up my nose and...
0:46.3	But that reminds me.
0:50.5	We got a great question about sneezing.
0:53.4	Hi, my name is Seeley, I come from Wicklow in Ireland.
0:59.1	And my question is, why does dust make you sneeze? Bye.
1:04.8	Hi there. My name is Laura Orvetus. I am a pediatric onyarangologist at the Mayo Clinic,
1:10.7	and that means a ear,
1:11.8	nose and throat doctor. Well, there's two main reasons dust makes you sneeze. One is if you
1:17.3	have an allergy to dust mites. Dust mites are little insects that live indoors in your bedding,
1:23.3	in your pillows, and people that are sensitive to dust mites will sneeze when they are exposed to them.
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