May Your Days Be Merry: How to Handle Hearing Loss During the Holidays
The holidays can be a difficult time for people with hearing loss. This is because, while holiday parties are a great way to catch up with loved ones, they tend to present challenging listening situations. It’s hard to have a conversation over the sound of others talking, dishes clanking and holiday music playing in the…
Can Humidifiers Help with Your Allergies?
If you’re experiencing itchy eyes, congestion, runny nose, scratchy throat or any other symptoms associated with allergies, you’ll do just about anything to find relief. For some, this can be achieved by simply running a humidifier. Humidifiers are devices that release steam or water vapor into the air, increasing the humidity. Below we review what…
Audiology Awareness Month: How Hearing Care Is Better than Technology Alone
Did you know that October is Audiology Awareness Month? That means there’s no better time to see an audiologist so you can treat your hearing loss. Left untreated, hearing loss can lead to social withdrawal, feelings of loneliness, depression, anxiety, falls and even cognitive decline. Below we review what your options are for treating your…
Fillers
Injectable wrinkle fillers are soft tissue fillers that are injected into the skin to give you a more youthful appearance. They fill in lines and wrinkles that are the result of aging, smoking, sun exposure and gravity. The typical procedure takes less than thirty minutes and results last up to a year. While Botox injections…
What is Telecoil and How Can it Help?
Even with the use of hearing aids people can struggle to hear in busy, public places with a lot of background noise. Sounds can blend and become muddled. It can become difficult to focus on what you actually want to hear, whether that’s the gate change announcement at the airport or music at the Arlene…
How the Flu Affects Your Hearing
As miserable as the flu can leave you feeling, there’s a lesser-known side effect of it that is fairly common: temporary hearing loss. When you’re sick, fluid may build up in the middle ear and Eustachian tube, a thin canal in the back of the throat that connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx. This congestion…
Retraining Your Sense of Smell After COVID
By now you’re probably aware that anosmia, the medical term for loss of smell, is one of the hallmark symptoms of COVID-19. While the exact number of patients affected varies, the experience averages out to about 41 percent.1 Indeed, loss of smell is so common that some professionals advocate using smell as a diagnostic test…
Do You Have Patients Who Can’t Tolerate CPAP?
We’re pleased to offer Inspire, a new, innovative solution for sleep apnea patients who haven’t had success with CPAP. What is Inspire? Inspire is an implantable device, similar to a pacemaker, that monitors your patient’s breathing patterns while they sleep. It delivers mild stimulation to the nerve that controls movement of the tongue and airway…
Are You Struggling With CPAP?
Millions of Americans experience obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep disorder that can cause serious problems such as excessive daytime sleepiness and fatigue, memory loss and lack of concentration. These individuals have an increased risk of heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure. While CPAP therapy is the preferred treatment method, not everybody can tolerate…
Skip the Shot with Allergy Drops
Do you suffer from itchy, watery eyes, congestion, runny nose, sneezing and wheezing that are not well-controlled with over-the-counter medications? If so, you may be a good candidate for immunotherapy. A new form of immunotherapy that’s gaining popularity is allergy drops. Allergies Are an Immune System Response To understand how immunotherapy works, it’s important to…
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