I think we've all heard the recent news that somebody with hayfever blew out their frontal lobes, to cut a long story short. How is this possible?

Link? I can't find it.

what the what?? how in the world did someone blow thier own brains out from heyfever??

well iheard the storie on more than one topical quiz show ill find a link

Sounds like an urban legend.

no quite serious, i know it sounds unlikely but it has fared on a number News Quizzes here in the UK.

Well then show us a link.

have been looking no look so far

Meh...!

 

The quiz didn't happen to be Have I Got News For You quoting the News of the World or some other red-top comic?

ndeed it did, but that not the only source I have heard it from

well...what were the other sources. Like blike said, it sounds like an urban legend.

There was an instance of an individual blowing out a large part of his prefrontal cortex, but it was nothing to do with hayfever. He was a railway worker and he was using a tamping rod when the charge went off. It blew the rod up under his zygomatic arch and out through his skull (temporal region). It took much of his prefrontal cortex with it. He survived, but suffered a personality change and became 'frontal' (as nurses call it). That is to say, he suffered poor impulse control, poor social judgement etc.. If you want to look it up, his name was Phineas Gage.

Maybe the hayfever person ruptured a sinus?

I`ve never seen a warning on a snuff box before, it`s gotta be a Legend/Myth

 

although I have heard if you sneeze with your eyes open they can pop out?

Have I Got News For You tends to pick the more bizarre (and not necessarily true) headlines to use on the show.

I've tried sneezing with my eyes open before, and, I cannot do it.

 

as to blowing brain stuff out your nose, reminds me of a kid who told me his motorcycle blew up, and shot the piston right out the tailpipe.

 

Never mind that the piston was perhaps 3 times wider then the tailpipe, which, I would also tend to believe is the case with frontal lobes size compared to the nasal passages they'd have to go through.

I've heard of someone litertally blowing their brains into their kleenex....

Apparently she fell down the stairs, bonking her head on each one on the way down. Miraculously nothing broke.

For the next week or two her nose was constantly (literally) running. Finally she went to the doctor. They did a series of tests, and it was determined that it wasn't allergies or whatever: it was the lining of fluid around her brain leaking out.

 

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew