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…
Preparing Yourself for Autumn Allergies
Autumn is approaching and that means saying goodbye to hot weather and late sunsets. Unfortunately, it does not mean saying goodbye to seasonal allergies. If you find yourself experiencing itchy eyes and a runny nose after a run through Minto-Brown Island Park there’s a good chance you’re reacting to one of autumn’s most prominent allergens:…
Allergies: Why Do They Develop?
If you have allergies, you may remember the first time you had a reaction, but do you know why it happened? Below we review how and why allergies develop. Allergies Are on the Rise An estimated 400 million individuals across the globe experience hay fever, and between 200 and 250 million experience food allergies. According…
How to Manage Allergies During Pregnancy
Is there anything worse than your pregnancy symptoms being compounded with your allergy symptoms? Below we discuss allergy symptoms during pregnancy and how to find relief. Allergy Symptoms During Pregnancy If you don’t normally experience allergies but seem to have developed symptoms during pregnancy, you may be experiencing pregnancy rhinitis. Pregnancy rhinitis describes allergy-like symptoms,…
Outdoor Exercise with Allergies
The beautiful summer weather has many skipping the gym and instead opting to work out outdoors. Unfortunately, for people with allergies, this can be challenging. We review tips for outdoor exercise when you have allergies below. Identify Your Triggers An allergy test can reveal exactly what it is that you’re allergic to, which can help…
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