Ear Pain (airplane ears)
How to Handle Ear Pain During Flights
At vacation time, we often hear from people who find flying challenging because of severe ear pain during flights. This can turn a European trip or even a visit to relatives across the country into ag…
Airplane Descent Causes Excruciating Ear Pain
If you have ever had ear pain while you were flying, you know how challenging it can be. Fortunately, there are a few products and a couple of home remedies to help the pressure in the ears equalize m…
A Whiff of Eucalyptus for Ear Pain When Flying
So many people dread flying because descending makes their ears hurt terribly. This is especially true for small children (and probably explains why they often start crying or screaming on the descent…
Tympanostomy Tubes Eased Adult Flyer’s Ear…
Many people find flying painful. In addition to the anxiety that some experience, others find that the change in air pressure as the airplane descends causes agony to one or both ears. This reader rep…
Easing Airplane Ear Pain with EarPlanes
Q. I read a recent column about excruciating ear pain while flying. I had this problem for years, until someone told me about EarPlanes. These are small, soft silicone filters that are inserted an hou…
Airplane Ears Make Flying Painful
Millions of people dread flying. It's not really the long security lines, the puny snacks or the lack of leg room. It's not even the frequent delays or the lost luggage. For a lot of fliers the proble…