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During airplane flights the ears are subjected to changes in air pressure. The middle ear is connected with the upper part of the throat by the Eustachian Tube. Its job is to equalize air pressure in the middle ear.
People often have more problems during landing. If the Eustachian tube is blocked from cold or allergies the eardrum will be stretched inward, impairing hearing and causing pain during descent. If you can’t clear your ears on the ground, you should not fly. But if you have to fly, or find yourself with ear pain once airborne, there are some things you can do.
Tips for dealing with Ear Pain:
• Try yawning or swallowing to open the Eustachian tube.
• Try chewing gum.
• With a doctor’s approval, adults can take a decongestant and/or nasal spray.
• You might try earplug-like devices called Earplanes which help regulate air pressure naturally.
• Try the Valsalva maneuver: Hold your nose and blow out gently to equalize the pressure.
Young children’s Eustachian tubes don’t function as well as in adults. Use a pacifier or bottle for babies during takeoffs and landings. Older children won’t suffer quite as much, as long as they don’t have a cold.
“My last travel consisted of 6 flights (the guy was flying from Russia to Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta, and all the way back. Click a city name to see how ArrivedOK auto-updates his Twitter status – Editor). Entering all of them into ArrivedOK manually might take time. Fortunately ArrivedOK is integrated with TripIt, so all I needed to do was just forwarding all my booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to TripIt and then importing those records to ArrivedOK. Follow these steps to do it:
You should have a registration with TripIt.com. If you don’t, go to their website and sign-up.
Forward all your booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to plans@tripit.com
Assuming you have an ArrivedOK account, sign-in to ArrivedOK and select New Record. You will see “Import from Tripit” link.
Click it and ArrivedOK will import all your new flights and will offer you to edit them. At that stage you can specify your cell phone to track and notifications for all of your flights. Or you can do this later.
Don’t forget to make the newly imported records ‘Active’ by clicking the button in the Records Menu.
