Hearing Loss Articles

If you or somebody you know has minor hearing loss, it is important that you educate yourself about it as much as possible. Armed with accurate knowledge, you can avoid making bad decisions and will be better able to deal with your condition. Here are some common myths to ignore when you have mild hearing […]

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New cures are regularly being discovered. That can be a good thing and a bad thing. You may decide that you don’t really have to be very cautious about your hearing because you saw some encouraging research about prospective future cures for deafness. By the time you start showing symptoms of hearing loss, you think, […]

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You might develop hearing loss as you get older, especially if you frequently expose yourself to loud noise. Hearing loss may be in your future, for instance, if you work on a loud factory floor without ear protection. These hearing loss causes are rather common. But there’s a new fighter in the ring, and you […]

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For you and the people you love, coping with hearing loss can be difficult to adjust to. In some cases, it can even be unsafe. What’s going to happen if you can’t hear a smoke detector or somebody calling your name? If you have untreated hearing loss, you won’t be able to hear those car […]

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Want to take all the fun out of your next family gathering? Start to talk about dementia. Dementia is not a subject most people are actively seeking to discuss, mainly because it’s pretty scary. A degenerative mental disease in which you gradually (or, more frighteningly, quickly) lose your mental faculties, dementia causes you to lose […]

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Gatherings. More, and more family gatherings. It likely seems like you’re meeting or reuniting with every relative you have, every weekend, during the holiday season. That’s the appeal (and, some might say, the curse) of the holiday season. Usually, it’s easy to look forward to this yearly catching up. You get to learn what everyone’s […]

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There are other symptoms of a cold that are less common than the widely recognized runny nose. Occasionally, a cold can move into one or more ears, though you rarely hear about those. While you may generally consider colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom should never be dismissed. What does a cold […]

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There are lots of commonly known causes of hearing loss, but not many people recognize the dangers that certain chemicals pose to their hearing. While there are several groups of people at risk, individuals in industries such as textiles, petroleum, automotive, plastics, and metal fabrication have increased exposure. Being aware of what these harmful chemicals […]

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Aiden loves music. He listens to Spotify while at work, switches to Pandora while jogging, and he has a playlist for everything: gaming, cooking, gym time, and everything else. Everything in his life has a soundtrack and it’s playing on his headphones. But the very thing that Aiden loves, the loud, immersive music, might be […]

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Because you’re so cool, you were in the front row for the entire rock concert last night. It’s fun, though it’s not good for your ears which will be ringing when you wake up in the morning. (That’s not as enjoyable.) But what happens if you can only hear out of one ear when you […]

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