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Case Report and Literature Review

Schenley Co, MD

Arch Neurol. 1979;36(2):111-112.

Abstract
• Intractable sneezing is rare; the 12th case is reported here. Various causative factors have been identified in the literature; these include psychologic problems, cervical lymphadenitis, epilepsy, and allergy. The sneeze reflex consists of two phases, nasal and respiratory, which are mediated by cranial nerves V and VII and by brain-stem respiratory centers. Hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the multiple causation of sneezing are the concept of the trigeminal system as a central neuronal pool, optic-trigeminal summation, and parasympathetic generalization.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Albuquerque.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 2, 1977.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (Dr Co).

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