Ear Infections and North Florida Caves???

[amphipod06]

The Nasal Rinse (irrigator) is the best!

Water from the reg into middle ear? hmmm. I'm thinking that it's the equalizing that does it. I seem to get water in my mouth fairly often, sometimes on purpose to clear cotton mouth! But when the air space compresses and you equalize by sending air from mouth into middle ear, airborne bacteria, water, saliva, etc., is also sent into the eustachian tube, which is just not "natural."

skip

You are not supposed to blow that hard skip.....

Dive safe,

Celia

[JamesK]

I have a whole bunch of dives in north Florida caves and (knock on wood) I have never had an ear infection of any type.

I don't use ear beer or any other product.

I do pinch and blow to pop my ears repeatedly before diving and after diving for several hours/days. Actually I do it almost every day whether I am diving or not.

Maybe some people are just more susceptible than others.

I practice clearing my ears al the time. When diving now I rarely have to equalize my ears. It usually does it naturally. People laugh at me all the time when I do it, but I feel it helps.

Oh crap! That explains all this hair on my chest! I was thinking it was the hot sauce!

Um. Wow. Damn. Just damn.



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[MORGAN]

I do pinch and blow to pop my ears repeatedly before diving and after diving for several hours/days. Actually I do it almost every day whether I am diving or not.

I get plenty of practice clearing my ears just living where I do. My ears pop once or twice just driving from my house down to the village.