Are there any links between sinus pressure headaches and barometric pressure?
Changes in the air pressure, caused either by the weather or by your going up or down in an airplane can cause sinus or ear pain. Fortunately, for most people, most of the time, pressure changes causes only minor discomfort. If your sinuses are stopped up by a cold or allergies, air can become trapped in them. If the air pressure decreases, the difference between the higher-pressure air trapped inside and the lower pressure outside causes an outward pressure, which can cause pain. Going up in an airplane or a fast elevator in a high building causes the pressure around you to decrease. The opposite happens when you come down. Changes in the weather also causes the air pressure to change. The pressure decreases as a storm is moving in, increases as a storm moves away. (Related: Understanding air pressure) The relations between air pressure and health is quite complicated and many scientific questions remain. You can learn more by going to a USATODAY.com story on weather-related pain. (An
