Magazine Health Books. To send a link and summary of this article to a friend, click here . It's a fact.
Earaches are worse at night.
And it's not just because finding medical help is harder after everyone has gone to bed. And the situation is usually aggravated by a cold, sinus infection, or allergy. During the day, you hold your head up and your eustachian tubes drain naturally into the back of your throat. Also, as you chew and swallow, the muscles of the eustachian tubes contract, opening them and allowing air into the middle ear. But at night when you sleep, things change.