If you are about to sneeze then don't try to stop it by pinching your nose and closing your mouth as according to doctors it can rupture throat burst an eardrum and even pop a blood vessel in the brain. According to researchers it may lead to numerous complications such as pseudomediastinum - air trapped in the chest between both lungs perforation of the tympanic membrane - perforated eardrum and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm - ballooning blood vessel in the brain. The team recently revealed that a 34-year-old young man managed to rupture the back of his throat