Sneeze

Depends on if it's a spur of the moment thing. If the sneeze is coming too quickly to grab a kleenex, I always use my hands XD But yes.. Hands are preferred if no other implement is available.

When we go to our small group meetings there are times when the same things happen there some times. Some don't try to cover at all, I am glad to know by using your elbow it's good hygiene. As I think about this, not all time my hands are clean to use at that time. When it's time to sneeze you can't stop to clean your hands. I don't hug, so I am ok with this elbow covering my nose. I just try it and I like it. I still will keep my handkerchief and tissues. Your on hand con spread germs. What do you think?

Hello... I agree with you... It was gross... It was kind of discourteous too... She must have used tissue or something to cover her mouth.. I mean, one can't sneeze in your face... That is so rude and improper...

hi whiteheron I agree that its best to grab a Kleenex when you sneeze but if you have to use your hands do go wash them with hot soapy water.I fail to see how sneezing into your elbow is less germy than your hands.I would suggest the person also go wash her elbow instead of sharing her germs with others.Its cold and flu season and we all should be practicing washing our hands well after all sneezes.

I always sneeze into my shirt. Sounds disgusting I know but it is actually more hygienic as well. Germs are passed onto so many surfaces from coughs and sneezes on hands. So I always think of others before I sneeze or cough. Just because I am sick doesn't mean I have to get everyone else sick to.

I usually would sneeze on a tissue that i always have in my pants' pocket. But if it is inevitable that i don't have any, i would usually cup my mouth with my hands whenever i sneeze. Then , i would wipe my hand with a tissue and wash my hands.

Well, it's different people with different view. I think she did the right thing. You sneeze either into elbow or into tissues or Kleenex. But since she's not in hospital, I think she should grab a tissue or Kleenex. It might be her habits then. I would use a tissue by the way.

I sneeze into my shoulder. There is hardly time to grab a tissue every time I sneeze, and at my job I can't simply leave to wash my hands every time I sneeze, so its more hygienic for me to sneeze into my sleeve than into my hands that will be touching customer's things. Unless I'm really snotty. If I have a cold and a lot of mucus I try to keep a tissue to sneeze into, though sneezes do happen so suddenly.

Hi! I too sneeze into my elbow, it will be cleaner when compare to sneeze into your hand or any kind of tissues paper. Hand is the most easy part to spreading viruses where hand is the part that make the most contact with anything, even thought if you did not shake hand with someone, but remember, if she sneeze into her hand or tissues paper, her hand still contaminated with some viruses and when she touches something like computer, chair or table, other will get infected easier, where as elbow is the most less contact part and we can still wash it later without spreading the virus.

I always cover my mouth and nose when start sneezing and really this women was weird. I not heard sneezing into elbow.

I agree with you I think that's gross & I also agree that I wouldn't want someone who who just sneezed into their elbow to hug me afterward. I always use a tissue & if I can't immediately wash my hands then I will take out my little bottle of Germ-X & pour some of that into my hands so it kills the germs.

I usually sneeze on my hand if there's no time to grab a tissues, but one of the responder said the problem when using hand is when we have to shake other people's hand after that, so maybe i start to use my left hand for covering my sneeze from now, so when i shake other people's hand they won't feel uncomfortable.

Yeah, it's quite a disturbing thought that someone's germs might cling to you. But I reckon that's better than sneezing in your hands. It's even more gross when people just outwardly sneeze into the air and you can see all the wet particles fly in the air! Tissue is good but sometimes you just can't beat a sneeze. A sneeze is very unexpected and you're just not fast enough to dig into your bag or pockets, find some tissues and then sneeze into it. Sometimes I know it's coming and I grab out my tissue but sometimes I'm just too slow So I just resort to sneezing into my hands. My sneezes tend to be pretty big and loud, I get pretty embarrassed. I've been my friends sneeze into their hands and then not wiping their hands with anything, they just continue touching other things and they even touched me with their hands! So I guess it's better to sneeze into your elbow, what are the chances that you might hug someone compared to the chances of touching things with your hands?