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During upper respitory infection, is it helpful to take docongestant before flying to avoid ear pain upon decent?
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Yes, that can be: helpful, if you have no medical contraindication to doing so. The other, even more helpful thing to use, is Afrin nose spray, one spray each nostril 1 hour before landing (again, if there is no medical issue that would make this contraindicated).
Answered 1/4/2017
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