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Originally Posted by rachaelsscraps
My little sister gets a cold almost every month (she's been living with us).. instead of blowing her nose, she sniffles every. single. time. she. breathes. in.! It drives me absolutely NUTS! I keep telling her she needs to just blow her nose, but she insists it won't help. OMG! lol
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Gonna say this...it doesn't always help. Sometimes the sniffling is an automatic reaction to not being able to breath, and if your nasal passages are swollen, you 'feel' stopped up, but there is no mucous to blow out. My mom was like you, and was always on us to blow, and it drove me nuts when I couldn't explain that it was slightly involuntary. I even went to show her, often, when there was non-productive blowing going on LOL
Granted, she can try to control the sniffing, but it is hard.