{"id":6870,"date":"2016-04-10T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2016-04-10T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:26:41","slug":"health-advice-against-blowing-ear-sometimes-when-clogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"Health: Advice against Blowing Ear sometimes when Clogged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend (Li Zhi) brought attention to me about this during a subway ride. I've just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/002077.htm\" target=\"_blank\">looked into it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blowing ears by holding the nose may help alleviate ear clog when changing altitudes\/air pressures, but it is not a good idea to do that for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Causes infection from the throat to enter ears. (<a href=\"http:\/\/w3.shorecrest.org\/~Lisa_Peck\/Physics\/syllabus\/phases\/gases\/gaswp05\/taylor1\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some site<\/a> suggested that it is ok to do this unless when the throat has infection\/sick)<\/li>\n<li>Causes damage to the ear drums if blown too hard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The suggested solutions are just yawning or swallowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend (Li Zhi) brought attention to me about this during a subway ride. I've just looked into it. Blowing ears by holding the nose may help alleviate ear clog when changing altitudes\/air pressures, but it is not a good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}