What do our ear hurt so much when we take off and land by plane?

Question

What do our ear hurt so much when we take off and land by plane?

Answer 1

due to air pressure

best to wear ear plugs this also happens when u land

Answer 2

The air pressure on the airplane is unequal to the pressure within your ears, causing the pain.  Chewing helps relieve the pressure, or hold your nose and try hard to blow air through it; that will cause your ears to pop.  

Answer 3

The air pressure is lower with altitude, so the pressure on the outside of the eardrum becomes lower than on the inside when the planes ascends and vice-versa. This causes the eardrum (which is a thin membrane called the Timpanic membrane) to be pushed outward which, as I'm sure you know,  is painful.

Some people chem gum to get around this. You can try the Valsalva Technique, which involves pinching your nose closed, closing your mouth and trying to exhale air through your nose. Both methods work by forcing air down the Eustachion tube and into the gap on the inside of your eardrum, which will equalise the pressure on the inside and outside of the membrane.

Scuba divers have to do this about every metre they descend as the pressure at even 10metres is twice that on the surface!

Answer 4

air pressure in the inner ear, if you keep swallowing as you feel you ears go funny then this should help also sucking a sweet should do the same, helps to adjust the difference in pressure

Answer 5

air pressure. The pressure as you go up in elevation decreases. So you need to release the extra pressure thats in your body to equalize it. So you yawn or chew on gum to help release the prssure in your body.  

Answer 6

Changes in air pressure

Answer 7

Changing air pressure.

They won't hurt if you yawn or swallow because those things relieve the pressure.

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Answer 8

because of the changes in the air preasures and our ears pop :)

Answer 9

when you take off,the cockpit crew change over to pressurised air.

The air pressure in a plane is lower than that of normal air pressure and in consequence the pressure on the eardrum is reduced causing the "popping" noise.

During descent,as the aircraft enters "thicker" atmosphere,the crew regulate this intake and there is greater pressure on the eardrum which has become adjusted to the lower pressure,

This often results in great pain for some people especially if the descent is steep.