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When im on an airplane, when it takes off and descending for landing i experience pain on my ear as if my eardrums will explode. what medication can i take and how can i prevent this from happening?
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Airplane Ear: Caused by a difference between the air pressure in your middle ear and the cabin pressure. Yawning, swallowing, chewing gum, and the valsalva maneuver will open your eustachian tubes and allow the pressure to equalize.
Answered 1/25/2021
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Some thoughts: Airplanes in most countries have pressurized cabins, so to mitigate atmospheric pressure changes. Your pain suggests pressure surges in obstructed eustachian tubes, perhaps associated with sinus inflammation. Temporarily you might use earplugs on take-off and landing. See an ENT specialist to check out the above speculations, and R/O infections in middle or inner ear.
Answered 1/25/2021
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