6 Million Sneezes and He’s Just Feeling His Oats
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LONDON — Briton Patrick Webster, who has sneezed hundreds of times a day for 37 years, may sue health officials after discovering that his breakfast bowl of muesli was the cause of his problem.
Webster, 52, estimates he has sneezed 6 million times in his life because of the ailment, which was so bad he gave up his job so he could try to find a cure himself because doctors failed to stop it.
“I sneezed hundreds of times a day, all year round,” he told the London Times.
“It was exhausting. I was so desperate to try to sort it out that I took six months off work and ended up in three different hospitals.”
A private clinic specializing in nutrition finally diagnosed an allergy to egg yolk and oats he ate every morning in a bowl of muesli as the cause of the sneezing.
Webster, sneeze-free for the first time since the age of 15, said he might take legal action against a local health authority after 60 doctors failed to find out what was wrong with him.
The newspaper said there might be one unexpected bonus for Webster: The Guinness Book of Records was looking to see if he had achieved the world sneezing record.
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