When I get sick, my ears usually begin making a cracking sound. Why does this happen? It usually happens when I swallow or yawn and it sounds like almost someone ratchting.
2007-03-21 10:48:48 · 8 answers · asked by wandererthelost 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Because your mucus becomes thicker and stickier, and often gets pushed up the eustachian tube when you blow your nose. The clicking noise you hear is air blowing and popping bubbles through this thick snot, as it flows through your eustachian tube to equalize pressure.
2007-03-21 10:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by Guncrazy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2014-09-24 09:56:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a healthcare provider the official diagnosis is "eustachian tube dysfunction". There is a tube that runs from your inner ear down to your throat. It allows for you to equalize the pressure in your ears. Some people yawn to open it. When you live in the mountains like I do, any drive causes the need for our ears to 'pop' due to going up and down mountains and the difference in altitude changes the pressure in our inner ears. When you have a cold, or allergy or anything that causes your sinuses to swell, it closes this tube and you can't 'pop' your ears and you hear crackling in your ears. When the swelling in your sinus goes down you can then open the tube and the symptoms subside. It's due largely to swollen sinuses. Sometimes blowing your nose can force the tubes to clog up...but then again...if you are blowing your nose, your sinuses are already swollen.
2007-03-21 11:06:31 · answer #3 · answered by tlbrown42000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 07:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have fluid in your ear. When you are sick with a cold, flu with congestion in your head, when it runs out of your head, some of it you can blow out of your nose. The rest of it drains into your ears. Gross, I know. But true.
2007-03-21 10:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is your eardrum trying to regain the proper pressure balance in your ear. Don't worry, it's normal.
2007-03-21 10:51:24 · answer #6 · answered by blue_girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have fluid in them.......I get it too and I hate it, it drives me crazy......I asked a similar quesiton and it was suggested that I don't use q-tips quite so much in a round about way...try to leave em alone...and you can take a decongestant and that should help.
2007-03-21 10:52:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my ears pop on demand......that sounds weird.....
2007-03-21 10:57:02 · answer #8 · answered by Olivia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋