Their symptoms usually resolve after a short time. When it comes to flying, patients can manage minor cold symptoms, such as a stuffy nose, with over-the-counter decongestants. While most of my day is spent testing patients’ hearing and fitting hearing aids-on up to 30 patients per day-I am surprised at how often I address ear-pain and airplane-related issues. I get this question from patients at least once a day in our busy ENT practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. “Will it damage my hearing to fly if I already feel such fullness and pain?” she asks.
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Sitting in my office, the patient tells me that she has a cross-country flight for work tomorrow, with a return the following day. Treatment will require antibiotics and a possible steroid taper if the infection does not clear. In his notes, he writes that his scope revealed signs of a bacterial sinus infection.
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The ENT refers her to me, the audiologist, to assess the effects on her hearing. She also reports intermittent dizziness and tinnitus.
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She says her ears feel full and she feels like she is hearing everything underwater. Eileen * comes to our ENT offices late on a winter afternoon complaining of ear pain and cold-like symptoms: headache, coughing, sneezing and congestion.