# Do Eustachian tubes "squirt"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435 "2009-02-25T22:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/1 "2009-02-25T22:47:41Z")
Does anyone know if Eustachian tubes are able to drain or "squirt"any accumulated liquid routinely? I could sitting around and feel a liquid hitting my tongue and one time hit the roof of my mouth. On rare occasion, I’ve actually heard “squirting” noise. From the people I’ve mentioned it to, I’m the only one to experience this. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/2 "2009-02-25T23:07:41Z")
Fluids can leak down from the middle ear, or even from pockets high in the eustachian tubes into the back of the threat. They can also do this from the sinuses too. I’m not so sure they’d hit the back of the tongue, under most circumstances, though. They’d usually hit the soft palate first. ---
**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/3 "2009-02-25T23:59:47Z")
Are you sure you are not [gleeking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleeking)? ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/4 "2009-02-26T01:36:09Z")
Gleeking!! That’s what I’ve been doing for years although I’d never be so unladylike as to try to spit for distance. 😉 😃 I never knew it had a ‘real’ name before. Coolness. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/5 "2009-02-26T06:24:00Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > Gleeking!! That’s what I’ve been doing for years although I’d never be so unladylike as to try to spit for distance. 😉 😃 I never knew it had a ‘real’ name before. Coolness. [My thread from last year](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471953&highlight=gleeking). I thought I was the only one at the time… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/6 "2009-02-26T08:59:40Z")
According to [this staff report](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1550/why-do-my-ears-hurt-when-i-fly-in-a-pressurized-jet), squirting certainly seems possible under some rather unpleasant circumstances. > [@](#): > > One final related note: you often hear that you should not fly if you have a cold or sinus trouble. This is good advice, and you should take it whenever possible. If the Eustachian tube is blocked (common with a cold), you can wind up with a bubble of high pressure air trapped in your ear. Ouch. A co-worker was recently on a flight where the eardrum of the guy sitting next to him burst in flight, projecting blood and pus through the canal, suddenly cranking up the discomfort and damage caused by his ear infection. The flight attendant indicated that this happened more often than you might like to believe. ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/7 "2009-02-26T09:35:50Z")
I read the title as “fallopian tubes”. “Sexy!” I thought. Nary a fap for me on arrival though. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-eustachian-tubes-squirt/487435/8 "2009-02-26T21:08:50Z")
> [@tvvat](#): > > I read the title as “fallopian tubes”. > > “Sexy!” I thought. > > Nary a fap for me on arrival though. I read it that way too, but then started reading about the liquid hitting tongues and was seriously confused!