Travelers swear by this old wives’s tale for relieving ear pain, but doctors are skeptical of the hot cup’s efficacy.

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My brother always had really bad ear problems,” said Hardiman, 37, who’s based in Seattle, just like her mother was during her 25-year career. On a flight when Hardiman was 11, she remembers flight ...

Airplane ear, also called barotrauma, is caused during takeoff and landing of a flight due to pressure changes in the ear. Yawning and swallowing help ease it.

Maybe you need an antihistamine. You could teach your kids to pop the ears or eat or any of those things. When you swallow your Eustachian tubes open up. So you swallow 12 times a minute.

Airplane ear occurs when there’s an imbalance of the air pressure in the middle ear, and the air pressure in the surrounding environment. This can happen in an airplane, an elevator, or while ...

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There is a tube (called the Eustachian tube) that connects the middle ear to the nose. Its purpose is to allow the air pressure in middle ear to be equal to the air pressure in the environment. The ...