Trying to settle a bet. When you plug your nose and mouth and try and exhale, does air pass through the middle ear and escape?
2006-07-16 03:21:29 · 13 answers · asked by EarGuy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Not if your tympanic membrane (eardrum) is intact. It is possible to force air through the Eustachian tubes into the middle ear, but no farther without perforating the eardrum.
2006-07-16 05:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No you can not. You can prove this to yourself if you have ever had pressure in your ears that you tried to clear by exhaling against closed mouth and nostrils. The pressure that you feel in your ears, that might make them "pop", is the pressure that is developing behind your eardrums. If you can get air through them they must be perforated.
2006-07-16 14:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by Gene Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't. While there is a passage connecting your air system with your ears, that opening is behind your ear drum. This is what allows you to 'pop' your ears so that you can hear again if the air pressure changes. It's a good thing you can't breathe there, too, because think of all the gunk in your ears that would get into your system.
2006-07-16 03:39:42 · answer #3 · answered by DakkonA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Once you bust your eardrums, pinch your nose, close your mouth and blow real hard. You'll have to try to feel the air coming out of your ears because you certainly won't be able to hear anything (and I mean anything, for the rest of your life)
2006-07-16 05:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by Eggman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm think of in case you're able to do it extremely is extremely helpful to have punctured the two ear drums at it sluggish or different. The tympanic membrane that covers the opening to the middle ear is undamaged and thoroughly blocks any get right of entry to from the outdoors - it extremely is why they might desire to place tiny drainage tubes interior the ears of toddlers with recurrent fluid construction up of their inner ear, to circumvent ear infections. If air is popping out of your ears, something has occurred to yours. would not have the capacity to try this.
2016-12-14 08:44:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, sure you can! There was that crazy guy in 1800's that could do it. You have to be gifted, though, in a way. Like having some pipe connecting your trachea with your ears...
2006-07-16 03:59:54 · answer #6 · answered by scoutfinch 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I knew a woman with a punctured eardrum. She could and it sounded GROSS!!!! Eweeee. Bad memories...lolz.
2006-07-16 17:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by barbaradjt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. block your nose and mouh...then try to exhale. You'll be surprised...
2006-07-16 04:58:28 · answer #8 · answered by johnoodles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if your empty headed, or have a hole, thats like plugging everything and have it comeing out your butt,
2006-07-16 03:42:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! But I can inhale through my butt .Don't smael to good tho!
2006-07-16 04:43:38 · answer #10 · answered by Freesumpin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋