How to help your child get rid of ear pain in the plane?

ArabiaWeather.com - Ismail Qasimi - Do you feel a popping in your ear when traveling by plane while the plane is rising to the air or when it is descending to the ground? Most travelers feel this way, and it's actually a popping eardrum. But, have you ever thought that this feeling might also bother your child and might even cause him pain? These are some instructions to prevent pain in your child.

- You can give your child an appropriate dose of acetaminophen or ibuprofen before boarding the plane, which will prevent him from feeling pain, and do not forget before that to consult the doctor and take his advice, then follow the necessary instructions for using the medicine.

- Encouraging the child to drink water or juices before the flight, because the increase in fluids in the human body contributes to the softness of the mucous fluid and reduces its viscosity, which may occur due to the dry air in the plane.

The child's meal should contain food that takes time to chew, such as gum candy that needs a long time to chew, because chewing keeps the ear canal open.

Do not offer any kind of hard candy or gum, because swallowing the resulting liquid is very difficult and during flight may take an undesirable course.

- A child's yawn helps put pressure on the eardrum, and thus the pain will go away. Do you know how to make your child yawn? Simply keep yawning in front of him until he imitates you.

- It is better for the child to stay awake during the rise or fall of the plane, because sleep reduces the swallowing process, and therefore there is difficulty in adjusting the pressure inside his body with the external pressure.

Crying a child for a short time helps the ear pressure adapt to the pressure outside, which is why babies cry as a last resort.