Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Risk Factors
What are the risk factors that lead to this condition? Are you at risk of getting Eustachian Tube Dysfunction? Below you'll find information on each of the known risk factors for this condition.
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Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Risks
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting ETD. Tell your doctor if you have any of these factors:
- Activities with large, rapid altitude changes, such as flying in an airplane or scuba diving
- Allergy, cold, or other upper respiratory infection
- Ear or sinus infection
- Narrow eustachian tube
- Presence of obstructing tumors in the nasopharynx
- Children with large adenoids
- Age: Children (Their eustachian tubes are narrower.)
- Environmental allergies
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