Causes The most common cause of ear congestion is inflammation of the eustachian tube and accumulation of mucus or fluid in the middle of your ear due to allergies or infections, according to FamilyDoctor.org, an information site published by the American Academy of Family Physicians. The eustachian tube is a tube that extends from your middle ear to your throat. When this tube becomes blocked, your eardrum is unable to move properly, and noises become muffled.

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The presence of fluid can cause a pressure popping or crackling sensation in your ear. Ear congestion may also be caused by an increase in the pressure of your environment. This can occur when you descend in airplanes, travel down mountains or into deep valleys or dive in the water. Risk Factors Children are more likely to experience ear congestion than adults because their eustachian tubes are shorter. This allows infections to travel to the middle ear more easily.

Children also have a more difficult time getting rid of infections for this reason. Other risk factors include obesity and smoking. Treatment Ear congestion usually disappears on its own without medical treatment. FamilyDoctor.org recommends trying to physically open the eustachian tube by chewing gum, swallowing, yawning or by pinching your nose and then blowing your cheeks out with your mouth closed. You should feel a pop if the tube opens successfully. If these techniques do not help, you may try an oral decongestant such as pseudoephedrine to decrease inflammation of the eustachian tube.

Antihistamines and steroid nasal sprays may help if you have allergies. When to See Your Doctor The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford recommends that you see your doctor if you experience ear pain, your symptoms do not go away within 48 hours or if you suspect the presence of a foreign body in the ear. You may want to consider seeing an ear, nose and throat doctor if your congestion does not improve after several weeks or is severe.

Prevention Ear congestion can be prevented by treating the underlying cause of eustachian tube dysfunction, according to FamilyDoctor.org. Be sure that you treat ear infections, the flu, colds, sinus infections and allergies promptly to avoid inflammation and production of mucus in the eustachian tube. Copyright © 2018 Leaf Group Ltd. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the LIVESTRONG.COM, and.

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There are a number of symptoms associated with. Nearly all of these can be helped by using. In the event that they don’t, you can always look to more conventional. You will know a lot of these, but some may surprise you.

In no particular order of severity here are the sinus symptoms: Sinus Symptoms Sinus Symptom 1: Pressure This can be felt, depending on which is affected, in the face, behind the cheeks, between the nose or in the forehead. You may also experience pressure in the ears if the eustachian tubes become blocked up. Pressure in the head is also a common indication of. Sinus Symptom 2: Discharge One of the less pleasant symptoms of is the nasal discharge that comes along with it.

If you have a bad case of for example, the discharge may be a nasty shade of green and can be particularly foul smelling. Remember that healthy sinuses will produce quite a large amount of mucus each day, although it shouldn’t smell awful and runs clear in healthy people. Sinus Symptom 3: Pain As sinuses become clogged or inflamed, they tend to produce pain, beginning on one side of the head and typically spreading to both sides.

You may also experience headaches that tend to intensify when bent over. If the infection spread through to the back of the nasal passageways you may experience ear aches. Toothache is also a commonly reported condition associated with infected sinuses. If you have a sinus infection and experience other symptoms, hold off going to the dentist, instead use some of the and you might save yourself some money. Sinus Symptom 4: Loss Of Smell And Taste Unfortunately food and drink can become rather tasteless. Taste and smell, in my experience are one of the final things to return to absolute normal.

Sinus Symptom 5: Sneezing And Coughing Depending on the cause of your, you may have experience coughing or sneezing, the latter especially in the case of allergic. Sinus Symptom 6: Burning Sensations You may feel a burning throughout the nose and over the face. Sinus Symptom 7: Swelling Your face may become puffy and swell up, especially in the case of.

Sinus Symptom 8: Dizziness And Vertigo This is especially common in cases where the become blocked and the eustachian tubes get backed up and can’t drain effectively. Sinus Symptom 9: Loss Of Hearing Mostly this will be temporary but it will likely be accompanied by pressure in the ears and head as the eustachian tubes become blocked. When I get bad attacks it often feels as though I’m stuck underwater, trying to listen to people speak to me. Sinus Symptom 10: Tinnitus This is the worst for me. Since my sinus problems began 3 years ago I’ve had 24/7 tinnitus. This is otherwise known as ringing in the ears. Sinus Symptom 11: Popping Ears Another thing that affects me, my ears tend to pop as I move my jaw around.

This is due to the eustachian tubes being clogged up and as you move your jaw around, the pressure is released, creating the ‘popping’ sensation and sound. Sinus Symptom 12: Stiff Jaw You may feel your jaw stiffen up or even become a little painful depending on the and severity of your.

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Sinus Symptom 13: Grinding Teeth At night, you may find yourself grinding your teeth. Get a mouth guard and learn to control your breathing in the day. A breathing regime should really help out a lot of things in your life, sinus conditions one of them.

Sinus Symptom 14: Snoring As with a lot of respiratory conditions, can cause difficulties breathing and snoring is an unfortunate result for a lot of us. Sinus Symptom 15: Itching The worst type of itching because it’s almost impossible to scratch, especially if in really deep. It usually feels as though your face is itching but you can’t find exactly where.

Are great for dealing with itchy. Sinus Symptom 16: Post Nasal Drip This is basically the term for a lot of extra mucus draining down the back of the throat. This is a common result of. Serious Sinus Problems If the problem doesn’t go away, it may develop into something more serious. This is especially the case where the infection reaches parts of that go up near the brain. If this happens you can risk the infection reaching the brain and going into the blood stream. Meningitis is just one of the conditions that can result from this.

It’s uncommon but keep it in mind that if you’re maintaining sinus conditions with medication or that the infection could still be there. Find out and treat your sinus conditions to and if in any doubt, make sure to see your doctor as well. If you have found information on Sinus Pressure Points useful, get a copy of. Hi Angelena, First of all, I’m very sorry for not getting back to you sooner as I have been away recently. I hope your condition has become more manageable. It sounds like you could do with something a little more heavy duty.

You could try checking out as I wrote that for people who have really, really bad problems that just don’t go away. I would also look heavily into your diet and start eliminating food groups (such as dairy) until you start to feel relief.

You may be allergic to something in your house. If nothing works, get yourself something to start flushing out your sinuses to physically remove the waste and you could even try adding anti-fungal, bacterial and viral things to the rinse mixture such as golden seal root. Hi Jessi, This could be a few things: 1. Your bedding, pillows, sleeping area – You may be exposed to allergens in your house and bedroom. Do you eat within an hour of waking up? It could be that your body is reacting to your food. Look at cutting out certain foods from your breakfast until it clears up.

You may be sleeping poorly. It sounds strange, but try sleeping with tape over your mouth for a week and see how that helps. It’s hard to know your case but there are always things you can do to improve your situation regardless. All of the above can be helpful. Hi, I’ve been having issues now for several months and trying to figure out if they are sinus related. I have pressure in my frontal and maxillary sinus area, at times I may have ringing in my ears, and sometimes it bothers me to move my eyes.

I have a hard time breathing out of the right side of my nose. I don’t really have a lot of nasal discharge. I seen the family doc and he put me on a z – pac a month ago but it didn’t help. I am now trying flonase and sudafed to see if it helps. My issue is that I just switched jobs and don’t have any insurance for 90 days so trying to avoid seeing the doc without insurance and trying otc stuff. Does anyone else have these symptoms and know what else I can try? Also I have done the sinus rinse as well.

Hi Amy, This definitely sounds like a sinus issue and potentially a Eustachian tube problem. You say you have done a sinus rinse before.

How long did you stick at it and how did you do it? Neti-pot, squeeze bottle or something slightly more heavy duty? There are many things you can try. First fix your diet. It’s very important to cut out anything that you might be allergic to and make sure that your home is not keeping you sick (indoor pollution and allergens etc). I’m on the verge of releasing a book with all of the treatments I have used and how to do them. I hope to have it out within a few weeks.

If you’re interested you can pre-order above 🙂. Hi, my doctor diagnosed me with a sinus infection about a week ago but since I’m 16 weeks pregnant, I don’t want to risk taking any medications in case they harm the baby. I’ve used a Neti Pot rinse twice a day since its started and have been massaging my pressure points to relieve the pain.

The congestion is almost gone but now I’m left with a throbbing headache, severe ear and throat pain on both sides, and sore muscles in my neck. Does this sound like symptoms of sinusitis or has it progressed into something else? Does anyone have any other suggestions on safe, natural remedies to help with this?

Ok so about a week ago I started getting headaches, and before that my nose was runny but no other cold like symptoms. I had really bad headaches, my neck and eyes hurt to the point I went to the er. I got blood work, and a CT scan everything came up good, so they gave me medicine for headaches. The headaches have stopped but I’m still get like a pressure stuffy feeling in my head from time to time.

My nose feels stuffed and there is pressure with my eyes. It hurts during the day to move them around and every morning after waking up my eyes get these clear fluid bubbles on the corner of my eyes that go away after an hour or so. Bending down makes the pressure worse, with throbbing in my ears. It get worse at night with more pressure around my nose. Wht could this be? Okay, sooo for the past few days I have been experiencing tightness in both of my cheeks, not so much my jaw, but on occassion it tenses up when the cheeks tense up.

My left ear also with the cheek tightness can feel like it is clogged up almost. Sometimes it pops, other times, its harder to hear out of. I did have headache about two-three days ago. On occassion there is a feeling like I have something stuck in my throat. Part of me thinks I may have a sinus infection. I have had a runny nose, coughing up phlegm.

But of course sometimes you search symptoms on the internet, and they give you the worst possible condition. A very peculiar practice series 2. I do suffer from allergies, and the weather has been so back and forth. Then I wonder is it my anxiety kicking in.

I plan on scheduling an appointment with my doctor regardless. I hope you can help me because I’m I don’t know what to do and this problem is going on its 3rd month.

A few weeks ago I started hearing popping noises in my nose. I hear the sound in the upper part of my nose, where the bone is, and I tried the neti pot cleanse, nasal sprays, and I even made a nasal spray of my own using colloidal silver and iodine and the noise is not going away. At first, the noise came around at night when I was about to sleep and in the morning when I first wake up. I never heard the popping noise when I was out doors and that soon changed. Now the popping noise happens whenever it wants where ever it wants. I am really getting irritated with this noise and I don’t know how to treat it.

Please give me your advice because this has never happened before out of my 26 years of life until recently.Another note is I just moved to another state. I never had allergy syptoms beeofre either so I do not know where this problem came up. My nose is blocked and I feel pain at the back side of head I have been taking medicine for 1.5 years still it is not going and I find very difficult to concentrate and study in this condition I tried pranayam and pressing sinus Point as suggested by you but still it’s not going. It started last year when I went to cycling sat in A.C. So my head used to become very cold due to A.C.

And sweat.Cough comes out when I sneeze at start of the day but from noon till night cough comes out difficultly but I feel some blocked pressure like at the back of my head.plz help me.