Why do my cheeks sting when I blow up a balloon?
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By blowing into a balloon, your airway is constricted. Instead of allowing your exhaled air to leave your mouth freely, the balloon makes things difficult. When you press on a wall, the same mechanism occurs; you can feel it in your hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and wherever else pressure is more than usual.
When you blow into a balloon, your air pressure increases, especially in your mouth, causing normally unfelt levels of stress on your throat and cheeks. Because your cheeks are one of the softest parts of your mouth, they're the first to give. This causes stretching than can feel like slight pain, burning...or even stinging.
The best remedy is to just rest them, although I doubt the pain was continuous. If anything stays with you from blowing up balloons for any long period of time, I recommend seeing a doctor, as something really oddball might have happened. Otherwise, it's essentially harmless.
Is it one of those long tube shaped ones? They're killer!
You're cheeks need excercise maybe
because of all the compressed air inside of them, it acually atrechtes them
It may be nothing, but particularly if you are a smoker, it might suggest you have leukoplakia, changes that take place in the mucous membranes of the mouth due to the toxic effects of cigarettes. If you are get your doctor or dentist to check you out.
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