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Why do i always feel like coughing when i dig my ears too deep with cotton bud?
hmm, all of them sounds possible, but i still have doubts, for example, if it has something to do with equalizing ear pressure, then why dont i cough when i'm in an airplane, underwater, or when a doctor shoots a high pressure water jet into my ear canal (when i had an ear infection sometime ago).
the same reasoning applies to the misinterpretation of larynx and pharynx impulses when the ear canal is irritated.
if it had something to do with the saliva gland, we would all be coughing while eating, or during tonsilitis, which doesnt occur all the time.
i have to put this one to vote
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
Because you are changing the pressure inside your Middle Ear. The Eustacian tube runs from the middle ear to the throat. When you press against the air in the canal, according to Pascal's Principle, you are changning the pressure inside the ear. Your coughing is your body's response to equal out that pressure once more by altering the pressure of the tube equal to that of the outside environment.
- بهي الطلعهLv 41 decade ago
because tou irritate the part of your ear supplied by the auricular banch of vagus nerve, these impulses will reach the cortex and will be mistaken with irritation of your pharynx and larynx(also supplied by vagus) leading to caughing.
- 1 decade ago
Its because it tickles your saliva gland,or irritates it. Also... did you know, you are not suppose to put Q-tips or like, in your ears? Never! Actually you are not suppose to put anything in your ear bigger than your elbow. Ask your doctor.
