Shelby Heiskell, Kentucky, was still on board while she was uncomfortable in her flight. She had an unbalanced ear pressure on the plane, which was commonly known as "airplane ear". Heiskell said that her ears were so painful that it seemed to explode. Unexpectedly, the flight attendant used two items available to her at will to relieve her ears in a relaxed manner, which made her call the flight attendant really hurt. According to the New York Post, Heskell and his family went to California to go to the Thanksgiving Festival and were going to take a flight back to Kentucky to visit the Christmas Day. She was congested by a virus infection a week before the flight.
{9999}{9999}{9999}{9999}Heskel said that she rarely boarded a plane, so she didn't know that there would be more risks when she was uncomfortable. She said that when the plane descended, she felt that her ears were about to explode, which was an uncontrollable pain she had never felt before.
Myo Clinic pointed out that the situation that occurs in Heskell is called "flying machine ears". When the eardrum is under pressure, the pressure imbalance in the middle ear and the environment is present, which is easy to occur when the aircraft takes off and lands.
Heskel said that she knew chewing gum or yawning could relieve this condition, but her trial was ineffective. She had to bury her head in her pillow. A flight attendant saw Heskel's strangeness and stepped forward to ask what happened. After learning that Heskel had a plane, the flight attendant said, "I have a solution."
Heskel said that the flight attendant left immediately and returned soon after, and gave her a paper coffee cup with a hot, small towel at the bottom of the cup. The flight attendant asked Heskel to cover her ears with a cup. Heskel said that although her ears still couldn't hear clearly, they didn't hurt in an instant, and the pressure disappeared. She said that this was the "hot cup" method.
Heskel said that this method does not seem to be known to many people, because she still feels uncomfortable when she boards the next flight. As soon as she gets on the flight, she told the flight attendant that she wants to "heat the cup", but the other party doesn't understand it at all, so she took the process into a video and shared it on TikTok; the video was scrambled by netizens, and the cumulative amount of more than 6.3 million views were viewed.
@babygriffinI owe that girl! Apparently, it’s a trick not alat of people are aware of, because one of the flight attendants on the next plane didnt know what i was talking about when i ordered one for take off (my ear was still plugged)… so i thought id share. #flighthacks #travelhacks #traveltips #earpain #flyingtips #travellife #traveltips #americanairlines @American Airlines
♬ Daft Minaj by Snowdream - SnowdreamMany netizens left messages in Heskell's video to share their ways to relieve the aircraft, and other flight attendants also left messages to share their experiences. Heskel later made other videos to share the suggestions she collected.
@babygriffinReplying to @K4 #americanairlines #hotcup #flyingtips #travelingtips #traveltips #traveltips #traveltok #travelinghacks #travelhacks #earpain #holidaytravel #flightattendant
♬ original sound - 🎁𝙶𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚏𝚏𝚏𝚏𝚗Some netizens shared that you can take decongestant or sudafed 24 hours before boarding and 45 minutes before boarding. Some air-conditioned staff also say that if the child has an ear that is uncomfortable when he takes a baby, he can put an empty paper cup on each ear to reduce the pressure.
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