Doctors Baffled by Girl Who Sneezes 12,000 Times a Day

Baack · Nov 11, 2009

CHESAPEAKE, Va. Its that time of year when everyone seems to be coughing and sneezing, but for a 12-year-old girl from Virginia, she cant sit for more than a few seconds without someone saying "bless you."
Its so bad, on a regular day Lauren Johnson can sneeze more than 12,000 times a day, fox43tv.com reported.
"I can't stop sneezing. It goes off about eight to nine times a minute," Lauren said.
The condition, described as "machine gun sneezing," started about two weeks ago when the sixth-grader caught a cold and ever since then shes been miserable.
"I know this is terrible for her," Laurens mom, Lynn Johnson said.
Lauren hasnt been able to go to school and has visited six different doctors since the non-stop sneezing began. Although theres no clear diagnosis, one neurologist told the family Laurens condition could be "irretractable psychogenic disorder," which could be triggered by stress, according to the report.
"There's less than 40 cases ever documented ever in the entire world," Johnson said. "Nobody really knows how to treat it, what's going to work, and even in the cases where it might have worked or turned the sneezing off for awhile, a lot of times it comes back again and then you're right back to where you started," she added.
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noble one · Nov 11, 2009

The poor young thing. That's horrible.

madbunny · Nov 12, 2009

I thought everytime you sneezed your heart stopped....

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