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What Causes Ear Pain And Headache After An Exposure To Cold Air?
Question: I feel pain while cold air goes into my ear. sometime it leads to headache and vomating. after take precaustions it gets cure also feel headache while sitting under fan.
Brief Answer:
Both are physiological response.
Detailed Answer:
Hai,
Thanks for consulting Healthcare magic.
It could be due to ear infection.Kindly rule out any ear infection first by An ENT doctor.
Headache and vomiting are response of the ear drum and ear associated system to cold air exposure.
Continue blow of air around the head will lead to headache.
No pathology behind it.
It is simple physiology.
ear and inner part of ear like ear drum and Eustachian tube will maintain our body equilibrium. once cold air disturb your inner ear it will lead to headache and vomiting.
every individual will experience it when exposure to such condition.it is not a abnormal condition to treat.
cold air is not a normal one for us.moisture in air is more it will affect our ear drum.that leads to the disturbance for your condition.
From your quote you explained precautionary measure will keep away from this problem.
kindly follow precautionary measure like keeping ear caps and cotton ball inside the ear to avoid exposure to cold air.
Constant blow of air in a constant speed towards head will disturb the intra cranial pressure and that leads to headache.
Depends on the speed of air and duration of blow headache occurrence will vary.
To avoid such thing follow swing mode fan to keep rotate and keep air circulate in all direction.
If you have any clarification kindly let me to know for further explanation.
Thank you
Stay healthy
Both are physiological response.
Detailed Answer:
Hai,
Thanks for consulting Healthcare magic.
It could be due to ear infection.Kindly rule out any ear infection first by An ENT doctor.
Headache and vomiting are response of the ear drum and ear associated system to cold air exposure.
Continue blow of air around the head will lead to headache.
No pathology behind it.
It is simple physiology.
ear and inner part of ear like ear drum and Eustachian tube will maintain our body equilibrium. once cold air disturb your inner ear it will lead to headache and vomiting.
every individual will experience it when exposure to such condition.it is not a abnormal condition to treat.
cold air is not a normal one for us.moisture in air is more it will affect our ear drum.that leads to the disturbance for your condition.
From your quote you explained precautionary measure will keep away from this problem.
kindly follow precautionary measure like keeping ear caps and cotton ball inside the ear to avoid exposure to cold air.
Constant blow of air in a constant speed towards head will disturb the intra cranial pressure and that leads to headache.
Depends on the speed of air and duration of blow headache occurrence will vary.
To avoid such thing follow swing mode fan to keep rotate and keep air circulate in all direction.
If you have any clarification kindly let me to know for further explanation.
Thank you
Stay healthy
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Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju
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