Totally serious on this one;
Do as the first person told you, take a bottle of water and make sure you don't just sip but fully be drinking and swallowing during the actual takeoff and landings.
Reason is because the act of chewing gum, while it may help, it's the swallowing of water and the action of the muscles in the throat that keeps the tubes to your ears stretching, allowing the air to change pressure inside and out-side of your ear drum. It's the actual swallowing mechanism that will keep most of the SOMETIMES painful ear pressure at bay. I say sometimes, because not every one actually experiences it.
Make sure you keep drinking the water through out the flight. Recirculated cabin air is very very very dehydrating. Stay away from soda, coffee, tea and alcohol - go for the natural fruit beverages they offer you (or more water!). Make sure you save some for the landing!
I've flown for years and I hope you have a wonderful time. Dunno if this is a long haul flight or something quick, if long haul, don't forget to post questions about tips to beat jet-lag!
Cheers
2006-07-28 06:30:43
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answered by dworld_1999 5
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I remeber my first flight, both nervous and excited. I didn't want to sit near the window at first but when I was in the air the views are fantastic! Get your self some sweets to suck on this helps to unpop your ears, some times you can suffer with ear ache. I always give my children a spoon full of calpol half and hour before we board as we found out their temperature rises on takeoff! You might want to pop a couple of paracetamol before boarding or at least have some in your flight bag just incase.
Flying is a wonderful experience you will love it, can get a little boring on long flights so take something to read or have a nap.
Hope you have a great holiday x
2006-07-31 23:09:23
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answered by vanessa s 4
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Careful with that nose pinch and blow thing! works fine on the landing/descending part of the flight, buy if you try too hard on the take-off/ascending leg of the flight you may do harm as you are forcing more air into your ear drum and you actually want to let air out when climbing to equalise with the ambient air pressure. Thats what that discomfort actually is, the air in the cabin is at a lower pressure the higher you go and the greater pressure inside your ear causes your ear drum to be pushed outward until a small valve in your ear opens and equalises the pressure. On landing it is the other way around and there is less pressure inside your ear than outside and so by blowing more in you wont harm yourself but will still force open that little valve and equalise the pressure. But realistically you'd have to blow quite hard and be in significant discomfort beforehand (therefore big pressure difference) to do lasting damage. the secret is to do it often and blow gently. if that doesn't do it for you, try opening your mouth as wide as you can and rolling your head in a circular motion, and your friends laughing at the idiot rolling his head like a piss-head should make you forget about the discomfort for a minute or two! ;-}
2006-07-28 17:20:18
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answered by big d 1
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The be wide wide awake “explosive decompression” shows that each and each and each person the tension is outlined variety of right now. If there have been a small hollow the size of a bullet, the crew may get an computerized alarm signal and look at to make the restore in the previous than deadly decompression. With a spot that length, it ought to take infinite minutes in the previous than low pressure may incapacitate the crew. If an astronaut blocked the hollow together which includes his body, the ventilation ought to correctly be stopped, regardless of the easy incontrovertible reality that it ought to be painful (a bullet sized hollow may now no longer enable him to be sucked out). Water isn't a liquid at 0 pressure. If water ice were warmed in 0 pressure it ought to sublimate, it really is massive distinction at modern from an brilliant to a gas. If there have been complete decompression, the crew may die on the ingredient of at modern. The blood and diverse fluids of their our bodies may massive distinction to a gas rapidly. because it does this, the fluids may actual be boiling. even if the blood temperature has now no longer replaced, the boiling temperature has. If the crew did no longer explode, each and each and every cellular telephone of their our bodies may even if rupture through very reality the gas expands. lack of life ought to correctly be speedy.
2016-11-26 20:56:14
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answered by Anonymous
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I took my first flight this year too and its way fun not scary at all chewing gum really helps and dont look out the window when taking off or landing it helps trust me and try closing ur eyses on takeoff just dont worry(when i flew i was way scared but i loved takeoff it was my fave part!!)
2006-07-28 06:25:43
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answered by I.Am.What.I.Am ™ 2
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swallowing everytime my ears popped. Chewing gum also help for me
2006-07-28 06:24:04
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answered by randys_gem 3
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chewing gum works
2006-07-28 06:23:17
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answered by Bob D 6
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different things work for different people,,, i find a bottle of water,, sipping it as you take off or land,, helps me a lot
2006-07-28 06:22:26
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answered by Anonymous
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chewing gum helped me when I flew.
2006-07-28 06:23:21
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answered by Sherrie 3
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Have something to drink and keep swallowing.
2006-07-28 06:23:29
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answered by consigliere 6
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