Why Ear & Head feels pain, When we are in the plane.

in the plane

When we are traveling by planes, would have imagined how it felt when it was in the space. Well, what if the plane when we actually feel uncomfortable? because our ears and head hurt.

Is this situation normal? This situation is called Eusthacian tube, or the eustachian tract obstruction in the ear. Eusthacian tube is a channel that starts from the middle ear and ends behind the base of the nose or throat area. This channel serves to balance the air pressure in the middle ear and outside air pressure. When the pressure difference then this channel will open and let air into the middle ear so that the pressure to be balanced.

When the the pressure difference? when the plane was about to take off or landing or when the plane up and down in the air, our ears will feel like a full or a dead end or a little less heard of, is caused by pressure difference as before. Usually we will immediately respond to swallow that our hearing became normal again. By swallowing this will cause the tube opened and outside air can enter the middle ear.

In some people with disorders of the Eusthacian tube or longer in people who have the flu, will be difficult to balance the pressure (at the time of the aircraft in the air) so that no air can enter the middle ear and middle ear resulted in a vacuum, in these circumstances the fallopian tubes was going to respond by reducing the middle ear space and surrounding tissue in order to attract a bit of pressure balance, and this response that causes incredible pain as the head of the terrace pain.

Eusthacian tube