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Vomiting often can throw your electrolytes out of balance. Low levels of potassium, magnesium, and sodium are not uncommon. This is hard on the heart and can cause irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia), weakened heart muscle, and heart failure. Bulimia can cause low blood pressure, weak pulse, and anemia. Throwing up can be a violent event. The sheer force of it can even cause blood vessels in the eyes to rupture.
No. Your heart keeps right on beating, even through the worst sneezing fit you can imagine. Coughing, sneezing, bearing down, and other activities can change the pressure inside the chest and the blood flow back to the heart from the veins. Itâs theoretically possible that sneezing could change blood flow enough to cause the heart to delay a beat for a fraction of a second.