How can you break a rib coughing?

[DaveB]

I'm no medical expert, but you can definately break wind coughing.

I used to have a horse that would sneeze and fart at the same time.

[DimPrawn]

I'm no medical expert, but you can definately break wind coughing.

[DaveB]

I went to the docs at the beginning of this year because it really hurt everytime I coughed. I hadn't broken a rib, but something close (don't ask me what...). Anyway, he gave me a night time cough suppressant and some nice pain killers. Apparently it's quite common.

You probably seperated it. That is, detached it from the cartalage that connects it to the sternum. Painfull, and sod all you can do about it but rest and avoid doing anything strenuous.

It's more likely you can do this through coughing than actually breaking a rib.

[FiveTimes]

friend also broke ribs coughing.

It starts off with a chest infection, then the coughing, then the broken ribs.

Once you have the broken ribs its harder to breathe and you take shallow breathes. This in turn causes problems and he developed Pneumonia.

It took him months to get over it

[NotAllThere]

I went to the docs at the beginning of this year because it really hurt everytime I coughed. I hadn't broken a rib, but something close (don't ask me what...). Anyway, he gave me a night time cough suppressant and some nice pain killers. Apparently it's quite common.

[Lockhouse]

One of the many reasons I ride a bicycle: get away from those disease ridden commuters.

I cycle to and from the station.....errr...

[Flubster]

My mother-out-law has broken 3 ribs through coughing over the last 10 years. In all 3 cases she's developed pleurisy which doesn't help. Nasty stuff.

[cojak]

(I actually missed that..)

[threaded]

My mum partially deflated one of her lungs during a coughing fit and went on to get pneumonia.

There are loads of people with coughs around at the moment - I've had one for 4 weeks - the doctor said it can take two months to clear. On the train this morning there were half a dozen people that were coughing exactly the same as me.

One of the many reasons I ride a bicycle: get away from those disease ridden commuters.

[Lockhouse]

My mum partially deflated one of her lungs during a coughing fit and went on to get pneumonia.

There are loads of people with coughs around at the moment - I've had one for 4 weeks - the doctor said it can take two months to clear. On the train this morning there were half a dozen people that were coughing exactly the same as me.

[NickFitz]

muscles in spasm are very powerful things...

[cojak]

muscles in spasm are very powerful things...

[cojak]

Woman breaks back whilst sneezing

[thunderlizard]

You must need either very weak ribs or very powerful lungs.

[OwlHoot]

In the lift just now at clientco, and saw a permie I vaguely know from a meeting take a bottle out of a bag and examine it.

Turned out to be cough mixture, and his doctor told him he had broken a rib coughing!

I really shouldn't have laughed. He's German, and it is apparently quite painful. But how the heck can a cough break a rib?