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That is unusual, your ears usually hurt on the decent of the airplane. The reason is that your Ear has 3 chambers, the Outer Ear (where the hole into your head is), the Middle Ear (an air filled chamber behind the eardrum) and the Inner Ear (which is where the fluid filled hearing organ is, embedded in the bone of your skull). The Middle Ear is connected to the back of your throat by a tube called the Eustachian tube.
As the Middle Ear is filled with air and is sealed from the outside by the Ear Drum, when the outside air pressure changes the pressure of the air in the Middle Ear must change to match the pressure outside or the Ear Drum over stretches (this is what hurts).
The pressure equalization is made though the Eustachian tube and while, normally it is easy for gas to get OUT of the ear as the outside pressure falls (as you go UP in a plane or an elevator), it is more difficult to get air IN to the ear because the end of the tube where it meets your throat is "floppy". This means that your ears are more likely to hurt you when the outside air pressure increases (as you come DOWN in a plane or elevator).
To overcome the pain, as soon as you feel uncomfortable in your ears, you should perform the Valsalva manoeuvre, a moderately forceful attempt to exhale against a closed airway, usually done by closing one's mouth, pinching one's nose shut while pressing out as if blowing up a balloon (holding you nose and blowing out your ears). Some people can also yawn to do this.
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Why might your eardrum hurt when you travel in an airplane?
Because of the pressure build up in your ears.
How can you re-pressurise your ears so they dont hurt?
hold youre nose and blow out as soon as you get quite deep and the pressure in youre ears will go. but if you come up to fast and re pressurise youre ears will hurt
Why do we feel pressure in your ears when you go up on an airplane?
As one increases in altitude pressure decreases. The pressure in your ears is then higher than the pressure of the air so one feels tension in their ears.
What gauge size hurt the worse going up?
well my ears are now 1" and it hurt me the most when i went up 1/4 " in one week. i just wanted to go to the next size. i do not recommend going up that fast it hurt allot
Why do your ears hurt and plug up after you run?
they shouldn't you should see a docter
How long did it take for a German shepherds ears to go up?
Not all German Shepherds ears go up.
How do you get your ears pierced for those big hole earrings?
You don't get them pierced that big it's called stretching, you need them pierced first. If you wanna get your ears stretched start with a small 1mil nn go up i will warn you that it does hurt
What defines low air pressure and where is low air pressure typically found?
There is low air pressure usually when you are up in a mountain or in an airplane like when your ears pop after you get in an airplane and you are at high altitude your ears do this because the pressure inside your ears and the pressure in the air is not the same. When there low air pressure the air is less dense.
What do dogs ears do when they are happy?
The ears usually go up. Or if they are asleep, their whole head goes up.
How fast do the airplane go?
Aircraft can go up to about 1,600 mph .
Why are loud sounds dangerous?
Because it will hurt our ears and it can make us deaf. When we turn the music up to high in our cars it hurts our ears making the people outside the car ear's hurt. It is disrespectful to do that.
Will it hurt the hamster if you picked it up by its skin?
It's fine to pick a hamster by the skin behind his ears, but anywhere else it might hurt your hamster.
