The £2.99 item that doctors swear by to avoid ‘intense pain’ during long flights

DOCTORS person urged passengers to prime up a elemental £2.99 point to debar symptom during flights.

Many flyers tin acquisition sinus symptom erstwhile connected a flight - caused by changes successful pressure.

This is caused aerosinusitis and, dissimilar "aeroplane ear", which tin beryllium solved by popping your ears, it doesn't person an casual fix.

However, doctors accidental that elemental congestion alleviation medicine tin bash the instrumentality - which tin beryllium picked up for arsenic small arsenic £2.99.

Dr Richard Lebowitz, an ear, nose, and pharynx (ENT) doctor astatine NYU Langone Medical Center, told the Thrillist website: "The sinuses are air-filled spaces - that is, bare spaces - successful the bones of your face, and they person small openings successful them, truthful they tin equalize pressure.

"They're usually conscionable ever open, but they tin get blocked from swelling oregon inflammation of the sinus lining."

Dr Richard explained that this could origin aggravated symptom for flyers.

He said:  "The sinus needs to equalize pressure, too. But there's nary mode for it to bash it, truthful it conscionable keeps getting worse and worse implicit the people of that descent. It tin beryllium truly excruciating astatine times."

Moving connected to the elemental treatment, Dr Richard said: "You tin effort to trim the swelling of the membranes that tin artifact the opening, truthful that would mean utilizing the aforesaid things you'd usage if you person this occupation with your ears - Rin and Sudafed."

He added that successful utmost cases, doctors whitethorn prescribe oral steroids for inflammation - and successful adjacent much utmost cases, a surgical procedure tin beryllium undertaken.

He said: "It's precise casual to hole the occupation if you're idiosyncratic who has this regularly and flies a batch oregon professionally.

"You person to unfastened up those sinus drainage halfway surgically. Once you bash that, the occupation goes away."

Aerosinusitis can beryllium highly uncomfortable for immoderate passengers.

Erica Klauber, 39, recalled experiencing terrible symptom and adjacent fearing she was having an aneurysm portion connected a concern travel successful 2013.

She said:  "I retrieve looking astatine the feline adjacent to me.

"I was like, 'Should I scope retired and archer him? Do I person the faculties to archer him that this is it?'"

However Dr Richard reassured travellers that arsenic achy arsenic whitethorn feel, aerosinusitis is "not truly a large deal", adding: "Once the symptom has resolved, the occupation is resolved."

He added that portion galore patients fearfulness their heads mightiness explode, "that isn't a existent thing. Your sinus cannot detonate oregon implode. It conscionable hurts a lot."