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I am extremely careful not to catch a cold in the winter. I love walking barefoot at home but I don’t. I avoid drafts. I am careful with warm clothes, and to dress in layers, to wear and take off the clothes as necessary. I don’t go to closed places with large crowds, like shopping malls.

But, no matter how hard I try, there’s always a respiratory virus that enters through the nostrils without asking for permission!

It doesn’t usually cause anything serious. I sneeze for a day or two, and have snot for the next few days. But suddenly, boom! My ears get clogged!

Although that doesn’t compromise my work, because all I have to do is turn up the volume on the headphones to compensate, it’s a little annoying to feel like I have two walls in my ears for a while.

When the situation is more serious, and my ear hurts, I go to the doctor and the conversation is always the same: “your ear canal, the Eustachian tube, is narrow and the slightest cold evolves into otitis”. And with that I get my ears plugged for a few weeks.

Last year I went to the doctor and wanted to get everything clear! Literally. I explained I was an audio professional and that it was a bit annoying to spend a few weeks hearing badly every year. I asked him what I could do.

“Are there any preventative medications?”

“Any syrup that prevents the snot from rising and clogging the ear canal?”

“Any pill to unclog the ear?”

“Any vaccine!?”

“Any surgery that widens the ear canal?”

Doctor’s response: “Change your job…”