How do you keep yourself from coughing, sneezing, ect?

[enzerutomoshibi]

How do you keep yourself from coughing, sneezing, clearing your throat, and all those other involuntary human sounds, while recording or streaming? I've been holding off on streaming for fear of going into another coughing fit.

 

[PinProject]

When I edit my video i'll mute certain parts that I don't want. Sometimes when I'm filming i can hear my sister in the background talking to someone so I'll just mute that section and if its imporant to mention something i'll do it as a voice over.

 

[Callan Wills]

How do you keep yourself from coughing, sneezing, clearing your throat, and all those other involuntary human sounds, while recording or streaming? I've been holding off on streaming for fear of going into another coughing fit.

For sneezing, I hold my finger under my nose to stop the sneeze and then move my finger sidewards as if I was itching rather than stopping a sneeze. With coughs, I generally stop them by holding my breath and looking up at the ceiling or the sky. If it's in a video, I would just cut the sneezing and coughing parts out.

 

[Dario]

it never happened to me... if i have to, i cough and then ill jut cut it off while editing

 

[Click]

I do all of that before hand or I mute my mic while recording and then cough or sneeze etc but something they just can't be stopped so editing it your best friend when it comes to that.

 

[enzerutomoshibi]

You can't edit a live stream, though
How do you get around it then?
Callan Wills offered a good suggestion for sneezing, but what about coughing?

 

[Brinkbabe91]

If I have to cough or sneeze while I'm recording I hit the mute button on my mic. Sometimes I don't though, just cus as long as I'm not coughing a bunch I don't think it matters that much. I am pretty sure I have burped while recording something and I didn't mute it, and I just left it in lol. But I'm not super into being all proper, so I feel like it wouldn't be me if I muted every burp lol

 

[Switchbox]

I don't care.
They have to listen to my clearing of my throat.

 

[Kaleido]

My mic has a mute button on it. When I used to stream games, I'd just tap the button right before any weird bodily functions happen lol

 

[WolfWraith]

I can usually avoid coughing by using the same muscles in my throat that I used to swallow saliva, to "itch?" my throat without having to make a sound like I'm also clearing it, it prolongs the urge to cough lol But otherwise just edit it out.