What Happens When We Pop Our Ears
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Why Humans Pop Their Ears
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In this video, Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses why humans pop their ears, and the relevant anatomy involved in the action of popping your ears. He also discusses ear wax, how hearing works, and what happens when popping your ears goes wrong: Eustachian tube dysfunction, ruptured eardrums (tympanic membrane) and ear infections (otitis media).
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0:00-0:36 Intro
0:37-1:14 What's the Deal With Using Q-Tips in Your Ears?
1:15-1:59 The Science of Ear Wax!
2:00-2:43 The External Auditory Canal (Your Ear Hole...)
2:44-3:41 How Hearing Works.
3:42-5:40 Why Do We Pop Our Ears?
5:41-7:03 How We Pop Our Ears.
7:04-8:19 Why Happens When You Can't Pop Your Ears? Eustachian Tube Dysfunction & Middle Ear Infection (Otitis Media)
8:20-9:19 Treating Ear Infections: Do You Always Need Antibiotics?
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As a physicist I would like to add that these tiny bones between tympanon and cochlea are an impedance converter.
From a large "soft" amplitude to a smaller amplitude with bigger force.
Awesome.
The inner ear then effectively performs a Fourier transform. The cochlear gets progressively narrower, giving every point a different resonance frequency. The sensing hairs then notice which area is active.
@@oznerol256That’s amazing
So like a gearbox, got it.
Sometimes I just randomly crack my jaw by accident
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You too?!
@@theanatomylab Sounds STUPID to say Ear wax position is to STOP things from goin n ! Research shows u cn detect CANCERS of virus types within Ear wax !Thus it REMOVES Waste frm Brain to Abdominals!
yooooooo im not alone :D
Me tooo
Now I finally understand why I have been getting ear infections my whole life. I have bad allergies, had tonsils, adenoids removed, and several sets of tubes. I never truly understood the connection until now. Thank you!!!
Glad the video was helpful!
I'm literally going through the exact same thing, im having an adenoid biopsy next week, cause my doctor can't figure out why I keep getting infections etc
I had a couple bad ear infections as a kid. I remember doctors giving me a balloon with a short tube attached, I would practice plugging one nostril and blowing up the balloon with the other. Now almost thirty years later I'm popping my ears every day and haven't had an infection since.
You've had several sets of tubes installed in your tympanic membranes? Like multiple sets are installed right now, or they'd remove the old ones and install bigger ones in their place?
@@user-Aaron-Tubes are designed to fall out as the tympanic membrane heals itself. If the problem has not resolved, sometimes the patient has tubes placed again.
i can normally tell if i'm gonna get sick soon depending on if i can pop my eardrums or not. so far this has be pretty accurate for me
True (I'm sick rn)
@@randomsomeguy156 Try laying on your side with the blocked ear facing up and flex the ear popping muscle as hard as possible and keep flexing as long as possible, try it a few times if not working on the first try
Yeah, and once you're done being sick all the lack of popping builds up and starts happening automatically and unexpectedly. It sucks
Makes sense- I get sore ears and stuffy ears when I have a cold.
@@catpoke9557 I have full control over my popping so when it is over i can release the pressure when I want
I have Patulous Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (PET), the opposite of a normal Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. My tube is constantly open. It's really annoying because I have to do the opposite of popping my ears. Basically, holding my nose closed and breathing in to create negative pressure inside the middle ear.
If I don't, the ear drum will be protruded to the outside and I hear everything super, super loud (including my own breathing and even blood rushing through the veins).
I bought one of those home ear cleaning cameras, not to clean my ear but to just see what's going on.
And you can actually see the eardrum bulging out when I breathe out, and sucking in when I breathe in. I recorded the video and showed it to my ENT which made his diagnosis a 5 second thing.
Yes, he followed up with his own tests of course, but since this is rather rare, it made the diagnosis way way faster because describing these symptoms can be incredibly difficult and vary from person to person, so a video is really helpful in speeding things up.
I actually had it since I was 9, when I started having the symptoms, but because it is so difficult to explain, and because I had a lot of earwax buildup as a child, no doctor would make that diagnosis. It was only when I was 20ish and those portable ear cameras became available on Amazon, that I finally got proof that it is in fact something else. I did change ENTs right after lol.
EDIT: Seems like some people here have the same symptoms but didn't know about this!
Fun fact, I notice even small changes in air pressure. As a high school student my school bus would climb an elevation of 200m during the ride, and every time my eardrums would go crazy.
To this day, no doctor believes me. But I know what I'm sensing. And that was happening before I even knew I had this condition.
Wow so cool you could see this for yourself. I sure hope the Doctors bill was considerably less!
Wow that sounds horrible! How do you handle the noise sensitivity?
That's interesting cause I have that when I do rigorous exercise for a while, pretty much every time. It stabilizes itself after about an hour though. It also occurs if I get like a cold or something, which is rare for me to get sick now a days
I think you just fixed my right ear problem I have had since I don't even know. One time I was sick and then it never was the same. I tried breathing in while closing my nostrils and it changed something. So thanks for sharing!
You hereby get an honorary MD. 🧠👂🏼👂🏼
Can you help me understand my tinnitus? Some days it's quite noticeable, and other days I forget I have it. Appreciate these videos that are produced!
I hear you! And my tinnitus! It drives me crazy sometimes it's so load. Most of the time it's an annoying cicada-ish sound but occasionally it booms. Very annoying.
You should take a look at TMJ dysfunction. Not saying it is the cause but 'come and go' tinnitus isn't common if due to hear loss.
I have tinnitus and it never goes away, I keep going to the doctor and he says my hearing is good, even better than the average of my age.
I just accepted its some neurological condition, its the brain not the ear, I also have visual snow, so they might be correlated. Maybe my brain is just too sensitive for noise.
I can literally see the noise from my own vision, so the tinnitus must be just normal floor noise, I don't have a low-pass filter it seems, lol. brains are strange.
I feel your pain, I’ve had tinnitus for 15 years, unfortunately I think mine is genetic, my father has it too, nothing seems to fix it and it’s the same as yours, I notice it really bad sometimes (a flare up) and sometimes I don’t notice it at all, but I can’t be anywhere quiet or silent, the tinnitus makes my ears feel like they’re going to bulge and explode if I sit in silence
Currently sitting in my quiet room with a headache and my tinnitus squealing. Gotta love it!
Can you do a video about Tinnitus. I love your videos and learn a lot!
WHAT!?
My brother had repeated asymptomatic ear infections as a child that caused severe hearing loss. The hearing impairment is what led to discovery of the chronic infections. So, I really have issues with the notion that ear infections heal themselves.
First & last time I voluntarily went to a doctor, at the age of 4. I distinctly remember the pain & it seems like forever that it took to go away. I freak out every time I experience the slightest amount of pain in my ear.
Your brother is an outlier
I had problems with repeated ear infections as a kid. I got the the tubes at 7 and that was all over forever. If antibiotic overuse is a concern, this surgery really does make a difference.
Having had a ruptured eardrum due to a middle ear infection as a child, I cringed at the thought of not treating an infection. The pain was excruciating.
Same thing happened to me, though not at all asymptomatic, my infections were excruciating and had led to the crystallization of fluid within the inner ear. Parents and doctors back then (40 years ago) just gave you aspirin and said it will go away. Then my father realized I was starting to develop serious hearing problems. Had the tubes (grommets) put in at 6 years old and that largely fixed the problems however, my eardrums are now weak from both the tubes and being ruptured so often to the point where I need to be extremely careful equalizing pressure. Last rupture was early this year in the pool. So no, I really don't agree with the infections running their course. My daughter just got first ear infection and it was straight to the docs the get ear drops and oral antibiotics.
A great follow up would be how vertigo happens & show the Epley maneuver or a link if it already exists and why this maneuver works.
Yes please!
Agreed!
The Epley just moves loose ear crystals out of the inner ear canal where they are causing an imbalance and vertigo. Many videos have been made.
Yes! I would love to learn more about vertigo and what I could do to help alleviate my symptoms!
@@jamiemcguire5585 have you seen a doctor to determine the cause? There are a number different things that can happen to give you vertigo.
my jaw squeaks like a door hinge
What?..
Now I'm popping my ears
Same lol
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I had a very painful ear infection for several days at 24. Now 56.
I lost most hearing in it permanently.
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@@HistoryOnTheLoose did wierd hearing distortion happen? Like as if your ear was editing sound?
Haven't watched it yet but fun fact, I can actually pop my ears at will. I can flex the muscle (tensor tympani) in my ear and hold it so the inside of my ear 'rumbles'. There's a community of other people online who can do this and they're called ear rumblers. :)
Can't everyone do it? I always make a band in my head from these sounds
Unless there's a severe blockage or a ruptured ear drum, everyone should be able to pop their ears at will by following the simple techniques mentioned in this video.
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Everyone can do this... 😂
I can too
Ok… that was awesome, but I was really hoping to learn a bit more on why I shouldn't twirl a delicious-feeling Q-tip in my ears.
Delicious is a valid word here, but it still feels weird 😂
5:37 I didn’t go back to check, but you did immediately touch your hands together while talking so you probably did that a bunch already…. 😖
😂 Probably
No dead cooties for him
Not that I'm in any authority to be a critic, but I just want to say that as an MSc neuroscience student, chronic illnesses data scientist and a personal fitness trainer, this channel is one of the best I've ever seen! The amount of topics you cover in pretty great detail + an amazingly understandable language is just amazing. Thank so much @theanatomyclub
Great information and clearly presented! I enjoyed watching this educational and very helpful video! Many thanks for sharing it with us, Jonathan! Truly appreciated it! Keep up the good work! 🙌❤👍
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
"Two ear is human . . ." Why this echoes inside my head?
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When you manage to rupture both eardrums from an explosion it doesn't always heal completely and you end up with a nice ringing in the ear and difficulty popping them.
That was very interesting. Thx for covering the topic.
This video is going to be POP-ular!
😆 Good one!
Lol!
Baaaa dummmmm tsssss
Thanks, Dad
@@UppityRib Hmm, the prodigal daughter? I can't remember thou🤔🤨
I'd love a video on singing, all the wholes we can fill with vibrations to vary the sound that we emmit with our mouths. It is soooo interesting how many parts are actually involved in singing!
Hello there! My name is Jazmine and I'm a new subscriber to this channel. I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy the content that you produce. In 2014, I was diagnosed with Acute Intermittent Porphyria, which is a rare disease. As this week is Global Porphyria Awareness week and Rare Disease Month, I was wondering if it would be possible for the Institute of Human Anatomy to create a video on Acute Intermittent Porphyria. I believe that such a video would be very helpful in spreading awareness about this condition. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication!
great video, as someone who had a cholesteotoma and suffered from airplane rides ever since, this helps me understand the anatomy of my ear much better.
Tried to hit thumbs up, got a message that said that the resource was exhausted. Great video, as always
Yeah I've been getting that error also on youtube. With more text saying check quota. Started around 6:30pm pdst April 16 2024.
@@world_still_spinslol. Did a youtube server run out of quota on its own API?!
Human body is a treasure of fluids and sticky stuff.
I would always recommend treating ear infecction, no matter the gravity of the symptoms. Recently I noticed difficulty hearing with my right ear and did a audiometry. The diagnostics: neurosensory loss at 6kHz (reaching up to 80dB on the graph), not even the bones were picking up the sounds. I did a MRI and a CAT scan to see if there was some sort of physical damage to the ear structures and everything is fine on both ears. The 2 conclusions the doctor and me came up with: genetics, I might be the first in my family to develop a propensity to become deaf (which I don´t think is true because is just my right ear with the problem, left is perfect). The other possibility: I had a very strong ear infection at one point in my life, maybe as kid, but I can't remember. And as a precaution, I'm not attending metal concerts anymore and use ear plugs to drive in the highway to muffle the loud noise of the road. Take care of your ears folks
You're lucky you don't have an acoustic neoroma, like me. They are not good . Hope things get better
I’m soo happy that Eustachian Tube Dysfunction was mentioned because it happens to me ALL THE TIME and i’ve never really known why. It started a few years ago when my ears would always be plugged up with either wax or because i had some kind of cold, and then it just started happening more and more often. When i wake up i often have an ear plugged because of it. Again, this only started like 2 or 3 years ago and I’m really not sure why. It’s always the right ear.
I just got over a small cold and it was particularly bad. I couldn’t hear out of my right ear AT ALL and still had to go to school 😕 it eventually faded away but morning classes were very rough.
Since I frequently have issues like this, this video was very helpful 😇😇
I don't recommend leaving any ear or eye infections untreated,they can result in hearing/vision loss.
Not treating it is just taking an unnecessary risk to your senses.
I lost enough hearing to be rendered hard of hearing as a child and later lost some vision in one of my eyes from an eye infection I didn't get immediately treated,you can't get those things back once you lose them.
Right and a bad infection can cause an infection of the brain.
Totally agree. I too have had both and started having hearing loss due to infections at 5 years old. The puss can and will dry up and crystallize in the inner ear. It's really bad advice to not offer treatment when the result can leave a person disabled. Luckily for me, it was caught in time, however I now register different frequencies in each ear and am prone to very easily rupture ear drums due to having tubes and the ear drums being ruptured so often. It's a good party trick when you're swimming though, if I bust a drum, I can blow bubbles out of that ear.
Wow!!! That was an awesome explanation!! Thank you!
I've always been able to do it at will. Handy both in a plane, and when you've got a head cold!
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Fancy seeing you hear… here.
i can do it too at will! I thought i was the only one!!! you just move the inside of like.. your ear?, right? people are so confused when i try explain
friend of mine tried to get me to explain. I couldnt tell him _exactly_ . For me, its stretching SOME muscle in my neck. its not just the one they spotted in the video. I dont even move my ears........even though im capable of doing that. (i found that instead of swiveling your ears to pick up different sounds like other animals like dogs, US HUMANS can move our ears to deafen noises about 2 - 3 decibles. Its helped me out alot when it was the perfect difference of ear hurting pain from stupid loud music to putting it as JUST BARELY tolerable loud.)
Its two muscles on each side of my trachea. I feel them tense when i relieve the pressure. I dont need to yawn or move my ears or jaw. something involving those muscles allows me to open that canal and i can keep it open too for as long as i like if i keep it tensed up.
@@Vicieron Yes! i just can’t explain it but well, i just do it! lol
I love your channel. The best I have found yet. I'm interested in the link between stress, inflammation and autoimmune disease. Thank you
I laughed when you said you're sure that the left hand touched the cadaver. That was quick.
Amazing video! I know ear anatomy but its the physiology that always surprises me and helps me understand more about the body! Thanks IoA
Great to hear!
no pun intended
I love this channel. Im going through tinnitus and information is always helpful
Great it was helpful!
When I was 10 months old, I got an ear infection from flying to the US (as I was adopted from the Phillipines). Luckily, my mom is a nurse, and so it was taken care of afterward, and I have no lasting damage from it. This video opened me up to understanding it a bit more (though I have no recollection of the event as I was an infant). The world has its processes and functions, including humans, so it's interesting to learn about said things.
Also, I'm not sure if I had antibiotics or not, but I assume I didn't, though I would have to ask my mom.
Very interesting and informative video. Thank you.
Maniere's survivor here.... THAT was very interesting.
as an adult, my eardrums have ruptured a bunch of times due to infection and problematic Eustachian tubes. my ENT has suggested trying to find adult tubes, on a long term basis. Since the eardrum will heal from the surgically-created hole, and eventually push out the tubes, it would have to be repeated over and over. he's never been able to explain why repeated cuts in eardrum for tubes is somehow better than less frequent ruptures
I used to get terrible ear pressure when I flew. With that I also would get incredible sinus pain . One time I was taking a flight out of Denver and my nose actually bled! After that I never had a problem again.
Two things: wearing ear plugs for work gave me multiple ear infections, and having GERD I get stomach acid in my right eustachian tube if it isn't controlled.
Did you clean the earplugs (or change them frequently if disposable)?
@@reality1701 cleaned after every shift, changed frequently (thought the company didn't like that)
When I was a kid, I got ear infections a lot because I was severely prone to respiratory infections. I remember that I did both things where I only sometimes took medicine for an ear infection and at other times didn't take any at all for them
Awesome Videos on the anatomy. I'd love for you to do one about Cervical Instabilities (In the Cervical Spine ) from C1 (Atlas Vertebrae) to T1 or T2. I have these issues of Cervical Instabilities (CI) with disc bulges, considerable degenerative discs, OA on the vertebrae and Facet Joints, some stenosis too, I have learned from personal research that CI can affect The Vagus Nerve causing numerous effects of Chronic Sinusitis, TMJ issues, Tinnitus, ear & eye Pains, even IBS, Bladder/ Bowel Incontinence, and more. The Vagus Nerve being the Motherlode - the 10Th and Largest of the Cranial Nerves. Psyche affects too - Like high Anxiety, Heart Palpitations, Costochondritis, etc. Moreover, my Spinal Spondylosis extends from the SI Joints to the Neck. Multiple sites of Spinal Canal Stenosis in the Lumbar and Cervical spines.
Your videos are very informative, complete with the illustrations . THX
I had no idea you were located in Salt Lake until this video where you mentioned very specific altitudes concerning where you live and the nearby ski resorts. Cool.
It's probably not what anybody wants to hear, but the earwax that my ears produce doesn't exactly dry out and fall out, instead it forms to clump up into a sticky size of a raisin, the solution that's used to clean out the ears doesn't work all to well, the wax is quite stubborn at times.
Quite noticeable when my ears start to clog up, I lose my hearing left/right, I feel some sort of pressure being exerted inside my ear when i lay my head on the pillow depending on the clogged side.
Thankyou, i asked this question afew videos ago😊
It would be awesome to discuss the acoustic reflex, and Bell’s palsy impact on this
Great video, never knew where the tube was located and how the popping worked.
Glad you liked it!
I had chronic ear infections as a kid. My parents didnt do the tubes for me and i still struggle in my 30s with eustachian tube pressure.. its horrible. It impacts balance and headaches too 😞
Recently took a flight when I had a cold. Decent just before landing was extremely painful, thought it was going to cause some damage. Usually I can pop my ears with ease. This explains its, Thank you 😊
Thank u for the info!👍🏼💕
It's very interesting. I've always wondered if your maquettes were real body parts, then you talked about a "cadaver" in the video, so I have my answer. Still super interesting !
I've literally never "popped* my ear, either side. I've had pressure be released, like when moving upward or downward in elevation. But "popped"? No.
That's actually good, better than "popping". Scuba diving instructor hear. There are different levels of "popping". If the pressure difference resolves itself naturally without popping (your situation), that is normal and healthy. There is nothing wrong, per se, with popping but it is a more violent method to equalize the pressure difference and I suppose that makes it a little more risky in terms of injury. We tell people to equalize the pressure difference (we call it "clearing") when the pressure difference is small. If the pressure difference is too large, the Eustachian Tube will get squeezed down to the point that no air can pass thru it and you won't be able to clear your ears. This will be painful and you won't want to go any deeper in the water until you can clear your ears. If you do very forcefully try to clear your ears when the pressure difference is very large, you are at more risk for injury (likely a ruptured eardrum). I've seen it happen. It's generally not life-threatening, but it is certainly not a pleasant experience.
You're lucky, for me the pressure in my left ear constantly goes wonky and I have to pop it multiple times a day, I can feel the pressure changes in that ear due to weather, exercise, closing a car window, and just randomly. 🫤
My ear hurt when he put the little metal wand in the skeletons ear !lol😂
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Me too 😅
I have the ability to pop my ear (open the tube) without moving anything else, so it means I have a direct control over the muscles blocking the tube. Fun, hey?
And when I do that: if I inhale with my nose my ears get plugged, if I exhale they get unplugged
Oh my god! So do i!! I’ve always wondered why!! I can just move muscles in my head to pop my ears! I’ve been so curious about this and it’s nice to see someone else who can too. I was searching to see if there would be!
I've had sooo many T-Tubes place in my ears as child, 3 major Rt Sx before i was 13yrs old and as a 42 yr old i still get bad rt ear infections. Lately its been fungus 🤦🏻♀️ not fun
Thank you for your videos i enjoy each one and some day my body will help teach students minus any organs that will help another live a better life.
I got tubes put in my ears when I was little. It was a huge relief as I was getting ear infections constantly pretty much my entire childhood. The tubes stayed in for years until they eventually fell out and I haven't had an infection since.
With my last middle ear infection, my eardrum didn`t rupture and the infection was pushed deeper into the ear, it resulted in a tinnitus and I heard almost nothing with that ear for two or three weeks.
Intersting video, thanks!
I'm just getting over an ear infection that i've had for about 3 months. Two different rounds of oral antibiotics and decongestants/expectorants did nothing. The final round of ear drops, decongestant/expectorant, and two weeks of oral antibiotics are finally clearing the infection. So this video was extra interesting lol
It's about time you guys cover the auditory and vestibular system. We'll done!
Can you do a video on proper tongue resting posture?
Clear explanation cool
Thank you!👍👍
Am I the only one that can pop there ears without holding your nose or moving your jaw
No! I can and have always wondered the same thing and why !!
I too can also pop thy ears without thy mandible
Interesting video. Could you do one on tinnitus? If you haven't already. Causes, what it looks like if its visible, and treatments.
I have tinnitus! Mine was caused by the defective earplugs the Army (and other branches) issued between 2003 and 2015. Our hearing wasn't actually protected against gunfire, artillery, and explosions so many of us have tinnitus and/or hearing loss despite thinking at the time that we were protecting ourselves against loud noises. One big way most people can protect themselves against tinnitus is by wearing ear protection in loud environments and keeping their volume low as possible while wearing headphones. If you go to concerts, earplugs should be worn, especially if it's louder music (I go to a lot of punk gigs and never go without earplugs). Loop even makes ones that are specifically for concerts.
If you hunt or otherwise use firearms, wear all the hearing and eye protection. I once had a customer drop off a rifle to be returned to the manufacturer because it literally blew up on him (the pressure went back instead of out, thankfully the stock of the rifle was hollow plastic and one of the decorative caps on it popped off to release the pressure). The only injuries he had was a couple minor scratches on his face and small burns on his hands. The scratches were from some of the plastic breaking and hitting his face. He showed me his safety glasses too - they were all scratched up from shrapnel and he was replacing them. What saved his sight and hearing was his strict use of safety equipment and that the stock was plastic. Otherwise, he would likely have been severely injured and likely deafened from how loud it was.
There's no real "cure" for tinnitus, just things that make the symptoms less noticeable. Mainly hearing aids or a version of them that put white noise directly into your ear canals. Once the damage has been done, there's no way to reverse it. All that can be done is prevention. You only get one set of senses - protect them!
Chewing on a lolli-pop, pop-corn, or pop-sicle are all pop-ular options that the pop-ulation can use to pop their ears.
I’m an immunocompromised science teacher recovering from an upper respiratory infection turned major ear infection…I haven’t been able to pop my ears for 2 weeks. Now, after antibiotics, steroids, and ear irrigations I understand why! ❤. Thanks for helping me be a better teacher and for helping me understand what’s happening to me!
Can you talk about causes of tinnitus and possible treatments?
I recently had a cold and sneezed quite violently and threw out my neck. The muscle tension and inflamation was compressing the eustation tube and I developed an middle ear infection as a result. Rode it out for a week and after visiting my chiropractor for the neck pain, the ear pain also dtrasically reduced within 24hrs after my ear was allowed to drain.
The Haunold area in Innichen does not go up to 11.000 ft, but snow usually is nice and so is the village, Italians love the place with its elegant shopping and early medieval church. A FYI and recommendation - enjoyed the Video, though, very interesting!
Your explanations are becoming as food to me thanks
Can you do a video about Peyronie's Disease?
The exact otitis scenario you described happened to me this winter + at a ski resort so i believe the rapid compression and decompression helped push some of the fluid up the eustachian tube.
I felt like the tympan was really close to rupturing, would not recommend.
I've had eustachian dysfunction for over a year now. It all started when I had four nasty colds over a four month span (thanksgiving 2022 through March 2023) and the final one was the big one that set it off.
Oof having congenital Eustachian Tube Disorder is the freaking worse. All the treatment and procedures are still experimental and extremely invasive and short term. If I have to travel long distances I have to go by boat or train, and I can’t be around mountains or hilly regions😂
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My younger sister would get ear infections so much as a child that my mom kept the medicine in the fridge year round and would just give her some as needed. This was the direction of the doctor because mom was constantly bringing her in for it. I've not thought about that in so long.
I used to get so many ear infections as a small child. It sucked so much, but it was probably because I had near constant colds and flus, even had bronchitis and pneumonia on separate occasions.
Great video…Can you edit your video to speak about the Eustachian tube ballon procedure?
I ruptured an eardrum as a teenager when my brother accidentally kneed me in the ear while we were swimming, which healed with a hole. For the last 30 years, if not careful, I can sneeze, burp, or otherwise blow air though my left ear, which is quite uncomfortable but funny.
Thank you for the video… now it all made sense! I caught a bad flu in Europe and with bunch of flights in two weeks, my ears started to hurt and they were si plugged up, I can barely hear anything but my own voice when I talk. Went to urgent care and got double ear infection that scared the physician actually, she told me my eardrums are at the edge of rupturing, no flying for awhile and put me on antibiotics. After 4 weeks I’m slowly back to normal but I get dizzy easily when I sit down and even worse when I laydown. Gonna go see a specialist in couple weeks and hopefully they can find out what the issue is… i naturally have very good balance growing up and this imbalances issue is very uncomfortable and dangerous as I almost fall many times in the shower when I close my eyes while washing my hair 😣
Wow the ear has a form of noise suppression. I’ve always noticed this like something in my ear is flexing when there’s a loud noise and I always thought it was ear damage or something
Thank you for the informative video 👍🏻, When I was a young man there were problems with the correct respiratory tract (sinusitis) as a result of which there was excessive pressure on 👂 (otitis media) They were treated with heating (👂👃) There was an exacerbation then I was 16 years old, a substance in the form liquid sulfur came out of the left 👂at night for about a week, after which they stopped bothering me. Now I’m 35 with otitis media there are no problems...
Greetings from 🇰🇿..
i'm surprised you didn't talk about when travelling by plane, which is more commonly when the pressure difference in the ear occurs, and it used to really be a pain. until i effectively learned how to pop my ears so i never had that pain again. however its hard to explain how i do the popping. its more than just opening your mouth and moving your jaw. you have to move your jaw in a way that opens more the airway inside the middle ear.
I was one of those kids with constant ear infections. I had to get the tubes put in on at least one occasion. It was bad enough I was considered partially deaf and needed speech therapy to ensure that I could learn to talk normally. Ironically, my hearing is now superb and I can hear sounds that most people can't.
I love your channel. I have really bad Tinnitis with 50% hearing loss. Do we know what causes this yet? Brain or tiny hairs in ears? I’d love your opinion xx
I’m so glad this exists. Because I have always been able to intentionally pop my ears with what felt like moving something within my head. This has helped me, I’ve never needed gum on an airplane. But I do need to manually pop my ears when I get a cold. I havent really thought much about it until my adulthood and took anatomy classes in college. I’ve always asked why I could do that to no avail. 😭 I still would be confused as to what exactly allows me to do so, but I can say for sure it feels like I’m able to move a muscle within my ears!!! So may I request any information that could explain my “ability”?
I can do that too, I don’t know why?
As someone who has post nasal drip the 'glue ear' thing is more frequent and annoying. It's worse during the high pollen months and my QOL is not great.
Just returned from Peterson Space Force Base after learning about aerospace physiology for my job as a flyer. We had to go into the pressure chamber and after going from a simulated altitude of 25k ft to below 10k, we had to pop our ears.
That sounds very interesting! Thank you for sharing!
I am a medical student from Poland and I have my english speaking exams in two days. I will have to talk about different systems, one of those is ear.. This material is really cool and helpful both for medical and non-medical folks , like all your other materials frankly. Carry on, you do an amazing job :)
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I definitely had it fail the last few times I've been on a plane. It took over a week for it to stop hurting.
I am stunned at the fact that ruptured eardrums can heal over time. I thought that if they ruptured, they were done for good.
Nope , they're able to stitch themselves back together again just like our skin does when we get injured.
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it’s this little feature of our anatomy that makes flying absolutely agonizing when you have a cold
For the past 2 weeks I have been driving up and down the Cajon Pass (in So Cal) every day for work, which is about a 3,000 ft elevation change (I think). Sometimes I’ll play games to see how long I can stand it before I have to pop my ears. Then I began to wonder how the ear popping process works. Then this video pops (no pun intended) up in my suggestions lol. I always knew it had to do with equalizing pressures, but never knew how the mechanism behind it works until I saw this video today. 😀
I know how agonizing middle ear infections can be. As a child I suffered from many and had 2 surgeries for ear tubes. My eardrums ruptured more times that I could remember. I was always in my ENT office. Acute nasal allergies still today and sinus infections. It was a nightmare. Thankfully now that I’m 43 years old I haven’t had such severe episodes in a while.
can confirm the bit about respiratory infection and lack of ear poppage. Got a cold once when on a trip. When landing on the flight back it felt like my ears were going to burst for a solid 30 minutes.
It doesn't even take that big of an elevation change. There's a mountain gap nearby that is at most 1000' from the piedmont floor to the gap, and every time I go from that floor and take the interstate through the gap, my ears inevitably pop.
And the worst is when you have an upper respiratory infection and the weather changes. And you just HAVE to get your ears to pop for relief.
If you have a constant problem equalizing your ears, there is now a procedure called Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation. My ear drums ruptured every time I flew, and I constantly got middle ear infections. This procedure was a godsend!
I had a weird episode once that lasted weeks when I couldn't sleep on one side or the room would spin like crazy and make me go from feeling "fine" to instantly throwing up. For quite a while I was fragile, nobody could move or push me, I had to be careful with any and every head movements I would do. I found out later that it was an inner ear infection affecting the balance... It took me months to go back to normal. I heard that sometimes you can be hospitalized for it and in rare cases normal can never be reached again. That is what I would like to know about, please! ^-^ (I forgot the name of the infection)
When I was 17 I remember the pain I felt in my ears when the airplane on getting on land.. it felt like my head was going to explode, awful! 😢😢