Summer still loves people, with its high temperature, to travel in search of relaxation and recreation. It is not without any means of travel to suffer from some troubles. What matters most to travelers is to provide comfort for their accompanying children.

Children may experience some signs of stress and discomfort while traveling in the plane, and their crying will be heard. Parents are searching for the cause and its treatment.

Medically, there is a channel that connects the nasopharynx to the middle ear called the "Eustachian canal" and is responsible for the pressure equation between the outer ear and the inner ear.

Dr. Ryan Al-Husseini, consultant of ear surgery, auditory nerves and cochlear implants at “Uhud” hospital in Medina, says that one of the most important functions of the “Eustachian canal” is that it opens when any negative disturbance or pressure (i.e. lack of pressure) occurs inside the middle ear in order to equal the pressure, so the drum returns The ear back to normal after it was pulling in, causing pain.

In young people, this channel is short and does not work in the full way because its growth is not complete. The responsible muscle is completed at the age of 10 to 12 years, which causes pain, especially when there are other problems in the throat such as swollen and inflamed meat, so the channel becomes blocked, generating negative pressure in The middle ear pulls the drum in, causing severe pain to the baby. Often this happens at the time of the plane landing and on short flights, because of the nature of the plane landing at a very high speed, which causes a difference in pressure that may suffer from its consequences even for adults as well. Unlike in long journeys, where the landing is gradually before a distance from the arrival, allowing the ear to quickly adapt and return to normal. Dr. Al-Husseini added that the eardrum may be punctured in some cases where the negative pressure inside the middle ear is very high, especially if the child suffers before infections of the ear and throat.

To protect children from this urgent problem, Dr. Rayan Al-Husseini, the ear consultant recommends the following:

The parents wake their child if he was asleep while announcing the landing of the plane.

Give the child any drink he consumes gradually during the prolapse period to move the jaw muscles, open the "Eustachian canal", increase ventilation, and equalize the pressure in the middle ear, thus preventing pain from occurring.

For the infant, the mother breastfed naturally or industrially by the bottle.

Chewing gum for both adults and children, it helps open the canal, relieve pressure and relieve pain.

It is not usually preferable to resort to giving the child a specific drug, unless the child has a specific problem from the previous, so one of the analgesic s that relieve nasopharynx and the canal congestion is given, and this effect lasts for a maximum of 10 minutes.

If the child continues to cry even after landing, this is a reason to consult a specialist doctor to ensure the safety of the eardrum from perforation.

The importance of examination of feces

Many underestimate the importance of stool analysis within the annual periodic examination, while it is a mirror of what is happening in the entire gastrointestinal tract. Here, we will be limited in our conversation to the presence of blood in the stool.

Blood in stool appears in two images First: the stool should be black. The second: that the blood appear red in stool. Each case has its causes and complications for the patient''s health, and different treatment methods.

First: the stool (black melena), and here comes from the upper part of the digestive system. Common causes in this case include upper gastrointestinal bleeding, whether in the esophagus such as esophageal varices, or in the stomach or duodenum, such as peptic ulcers in this region, or stomach cancer.

Second: Blood appears in the stool, the color is more red, and here it comes from the lower part of the digestive system. Common causes in this case are colon cancer, benign tumors, Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel syndrome, worms and parasites, hemorrhoids and anal fissures.

Blood may enter the stool, but invisibly can not be seen with the naked eye, but it is discovered because of the doubts of the treating doctor, who uses some special tests for the stool to ensure the presence of hidden blood or not.

The doctor may suspect this condition based on the patient''s complaint and the results of the initial clinical examination For example, the patient''s paleness, with weakness, fatigue, general fatigue, and difficulty breathing, for example, suggests anemia, or complaining of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, or weight loss.

The presence of such pathological signs and the confirmation of the presence of blood in the stool will require the attending physician to perform more advanced and sophisticated examinations in order to identify the diagnosis and determine the causes. It is so The upper endoscopy works by mouth, or lower end through the anus, and a tissue sample may need to be taken during this examination.

As for the next steps in treatment, they depend on the diagnosis and the reasons. Either the treatment is carried out conservatively with medications as in cases of infections, or by closing the source of bleeding if any and is by laparoscopy or surgical intervention according to the case, such as the removal of polyps, benign or malignant tumors as cancer Colon for example.

We stress the importance of doing periodic medical exams It includes a stool examination to discover simple but important pathological indicators in the early diagnosis of the most dangerous disease, which is colon cancer.