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What sickness doyouhave when an airplane ascends and descends, you feel that veins inyourhead are about to pop |
Travel Info YOu also feel quite dizzy and the pain in your head in unbearable. The veins in your forehead feel painful and that they are about to burst. The Pain then travels around your eyes. Travel Tips What you've experienced is similar to what scuba divers go through when they descend in water. Your sinuses and eustachian tubes which go from the back of your throat to your inner ear are not equalizing the pressure properly. There are several ways to deal with this, which my doctor recommended. 1. Proactively; take sudafed or a pseudoephinephrine-like compound before the flight to keep your sinuses and ear tubes clear. 2. Throughout the flight, as you feel the pressure build, pinch your nostrils closed and gently blow air through your ears to clear them (also known as "equalizing your ears"). 3. Chew gum throughout the flight. The motion of chewing continuously opens your ear tubes. The "bends" as a previous answerer mentioned, occurs when a scuba diver develops nitrogen bubbles in his blood from being down too long, rising to the surface too fast, or not giving his body time enough between dives to dissipate the built-up nitrogen in the blood. It is extremely painful, affects the joints, and can be life-threatening. Since people fly in pressurized cabins, the "bends" is not an issue. Source(s): painful experience with sinuses while flying. Other Travel Tips the only thing i can think of is the Benz. but you really shouldn't experience that in a plane because it's pressurized air that you're breathing. Its due to sudden change in air pressure while takeoff-landing. It can be avoided by chewing gum. |
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