What to Do When Water Gets Trapped in Your Ears

If water is not coming out of the ear or you do not know much about removing water from the ear, then you can adopt this technique. This technique is very easy and can provide you relief in a few minutes. In this technique, the help of gravity force is taken to remove water from the ear. Gravitational force removes the water trapped in your ear.

To do this remedy, you have to lie down on the ground for a few minutes with the ear in which water has entered facing downwards and while doing this, keep your head on a towel. In this process, the water trapped in the ear slowly comes out.

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To remove water from the ear, you should apply hot compress. Apply compress to the affected ear for about 30 seconds and then repeat this process four to five times at an interval of one minute. After applying compress to the ear, lie down keeping the ear downwards, this also helps in removing the water from your ear.

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Many people try this remedy first to remove water from the ear. Actually, this remedy is very easy. For this, you have to move the ear in which water has entered downwards and shake the lower part of the ear (earlobe) with light hands. If water has entered both your ears, then you can try this remedy for both ears one after the other.

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If water enters your ear, chew something or yawn. This reduces the tension in your Eustachian tube. This tube goes from the middle part of the ear to the back of the nose, which controls your air pressure. Water closes your Eustachian tube, but this action opens the Eustachian tube and the water trapped in it comes out.

In this, you can also adopt the action of exhaling fast, this also opens your Eustachian tube and the water from the ear comes out. To do this, you have to close the nostrils of the nose with the help of fingers and fill the mouth with air while taking a deep breath. After this, you should slowly exhale, while doing this you will hear the sound of water coming out of the ear, this means that the Eustachian tube has opened again.

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Using a dryer to remove water from the ear may seem a little strange to you. But science proves that when hot air passes through water, it starts turning the water into steam. You can also resort to this technique to remove water from the ear.

To use it, set the hot air and air flow of the dryer to a very low level. After this, pull the lower part of your ear slightly outwards and turn on the dryer. While adopting this process, keep in mind that keep the dryer at least one foot away from the ear and while doing this remedy, let the hot air go inside the ear only for about 30 minutes.

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When water enters the ear, you can adopt the vacuum method. As you have been told earlier, water in the ear gets trapped in your Eustachian tube. To remove it, adopt the vacuum method in the following way.

1. For this, you have to place the palms of your hands on the ear and tilt the affected ear downwards. 
2. After this, you have to make a cup shape with your palm and pull out the air trapped in it quickly.
3. By doing this, a vacuum-like pressure will be created in your ear and the water trapped in the ear will come out easily.

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