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Originally Posted by dwerten the way to stop reverse sneeze quickly is to cover the nostrils and open the mouth to get them to breathe through mouth not nose - it has to do with their palat being soft and triggers the reverse sneeze as they try to breath through nose and triggers the palat issue so you want to get them to breathe out of the mouth and then it stops immediately |
The last two yorkies I've owned do the reverse sneeze and it just totally freaks me out. Soph especially sounds like she's going to cough up a lung. I learned this trick a couple of years ago and I swear it has saved my sanity. Soph stops the sneezing almost immediately when I cover her nostrils.