Why does it sometimes feel like your ears get clogged when you blow your nose too hard?

Question

Even though I never talked to anyone about this, I feel like this happen to a lot of other people so hopefully I’m not wrong.

Like you know when you have a cold or allergies and you blow your nose inside a tissue but you do it slightly too hard and it feels like your hearing is diminished for a few seconds (kind of like when the plane takes off on a flight and you hear that POP inside your hear)?

Does anybody understands what I’m saying and knows why that happens?

In: Biology

Answer 1

There’s a tube that connects your ears to your nasal cavity. It’s how your ears drain fluid. So when you blow your nose you are pushing air back up this canal – essentially filling it with air. When you stop blowing your nose the pressure drops and the air is released.