eustachian

• “On an airplane a baby may cry for their usual reasons, but they may also experience ear pain due to their narrower eustachian tubes behind the eardrum becoming blocked.”

  The Huffington Post: Corinne McDermott: Crying Babies & Crybabies on a Plane...

• “In children, the thin and flexible eustachian tube between the inner ear and nasal cavity often collapses and fails to drain an infected ear.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “Amusing typo of the day 'station tube'.... er that should be eustachian tube, methinks.”

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• “They can turn just about every organ in the body—the eustachian tube, the gill, the brain, the bladder, the Achilles tendon—into their home.”

  Simon & Schuster: Parasite Rex

• “LISTEN TO THE MIDDLE EARThe shape and position of their eustachian tubes make infants vulnerable to ear infections.”

  Newsweek: To Dose Or Not To Dose?

• “Most of the time, the eustachian tube allows air to flow into the middle ear.”

  Newsweek: To Dose Or Not To Dose?

• “The confusion extends to otitis media with effusion (OME), a painless condition in which the eustachian tubes are blocked and the middle ear fills up with fluid.”

  Newsweek: To Dose Or Not To Dose?

• “They can hear little during the first 24 hours until air enters the eustachian tubes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead'

• “Inhaled smoke irritates the eustachian tube, which connects the back of the nose with the middle ear.”

  Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Children's Health

• “But I spoke to a friend of mine who is an ENT specialist and she told me that this is very normal, and not anything to worry about - at this age the eustachian tubes of little kids are very horizontal, and so the fluid that is produced during an ear infection sometimes takes a while to drain away, hence his 'blocked' ear.”

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