Q. How do I avoid ear pain during a flight?
Doctor Answer is medically reviewed by SecondMedic medical review team.
Avoiding ear pain during a flight can be done by following a few simple steps:
Chewing gum or swallowing regularly. This helps to equalise the pressure in the middle ear and prevent discomfort.
Doing yawning exercises before and during take off and descent as this also helps with equalising pressure in the middle ear.
Drinking plenty of fluids (non-carbonated) to keep your Eustachian tubes hydrated, which also help with keeping an even air pressure in your ears throughout the flight as well as avoiding dehydration headaches during long flights.
Using muscle relaxation techniques like stretching your jaw forward and then pushing it back, pressing your fingertips on both sides of the nasal bridge while blowing out slowly through pursed lips, and applying gradual but firm pressure over closed eyes - all of these are useful tactics that help you relax tense muscles around the ears that can contribute to ear pain on a plane journey if left unchecked due to their role in regulating air flow into our inner ears when there is an imbalance between air pressures outside our bodies versus inside our bodies during ascent/descent periods of flights specifically so we don't rupture our eardrums from too much sudden motion changes causing overly pressurised pockets of escaping gases from within each one!
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