http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/lauren-johnson-girl-stop-sneezing/story?id=9051534

Lauren Johnson is a typical 12-year-old girl whose life is constantly punctuated by interruptions that are anything but normal.

Whether at her Virginia home, with her family or getting ready for bed, Lauren sneezes up to 16 times per minute, a condition that has has stumped her parents and doctors.

“It’s frustrating a lot,” Lauren told “Good Morning America” today, sneezing four times before getting that sentence out.

Lauren’s prolonged sneezing fit began about two weeks ago, when she was recovering from a cold.

She can’t go to school, and sleep is her only escape, though even that is hard to come by.

“It’s pretty hard,” she said. “I have to kind of be physically exhausted before I can, because I just sneeze and sneeze until I eventually can hold off for a couple of seconds before I can go to sleep.”

My guess is that there is some kind of irritation that occured with/because of the cold…and it’s simply going to keep happening until it can be sneezed out.

Kleenex is probably looking for more people like her.

Truthfully, as annoying as her sneezing seems to be in the video, I’m also aware that they are nothing like my own sneezes that are so forcefull that my tongue flies out of my mouth as does everything else that is in my path and my head rattles (I normally do 2-3 at a time…I think a lot of people do).  Her sneezes seem more like little snuffs.  Still, those would drive me nuts.

Many people develop an ongoing cough that lasts at times up to 2 months after getting well from a severe cold or flu.  It may well be that her sneezing is the result of a lower tickle in the upper bronchial area that is otherwise ‘mis’interpreting itself as a sneeze (this happens to me) rather than coughing that will subside as coughing does in others.

I didn’t realize there was video…but after watching it…while annoying, at least they’re not the ear-splitting, teeth-rattling things that fly out of my mother.  They scare everyone around her when they happen.  I have full body-shaking sneezes…and usually a few in a row, but I always kind of like it.