The Shocking Truth About Prescription Drugs, Medications, Chemicals and Herbals That Can (and Do) Damage Our Ears
Ototoxic Drugs Exposed (3rd edition) reveals how prescription drugs damage ears far more than anyone imagines. In this book you will learn that some ototoxic drugs slowly and insidiously rob you of your hearing, cause your ears to ring or destroy your balance.
You will discover that other drugs can destroy your ears in one fell swoop, leaving you with profound, permanent hearing loss, and bringing unwanted, traumatic change into your life.
More importantly, this book also explains how you can avoid or reduce the risk to your ears from ototoxic drugs.
Ototoxic Drugs Exposed gives detailed listings of the ear-damaging side effects of 877 drugs, 35 herbals and 148 chemicals (798 pages).
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Stop Drugs From Damaging Your Ears!
- Have trouble hearing? Ears ringing? Room spinning? Dizzy? Find out quickly if your medications may be the culprits!
- Protect your ears from the sneak attacks of drugs and chemicals!
- Ear-damaging effects revealed on more than 1,000 drugs, herbals and chemicals!
- Learn how you can protect your ears from the ravages of ototoxic drugs herbs and chemicals
It’s Up To You
If you are like most people, you never give drugs a second thought. Your doctor prescribes them—you take them. It never enters your head that these drugs may be damaging your ears.
Many health care professionals know little or nothing about ototoxic drugs and their pronounced effects on hard-of-hearing people. Therefore, it is up to you to do all you can to protect your ears from the ravages of ototoxic drugs and chemicals.
This newly revised and expanded, easy-to-read, 798 page third edition is crammed with the vital information you and your doctor need to know in order to protect your ears.
Learn the secrets of ototoxic drugs now.
You will be well-equipped to protect yourself from ear-damaging (ototoxic) drugs once you know the following:
- Exactly what ototoxic drugs are. See page 35.
- 24 symptoms of damage ototoxic drugs can do to your ears apart from hearing loss and how this damage can adversely affect the quality of your life for years to come. See page 46.
- 13 drugs that have a severe risk of damaging your ears (and 107 that have a moderate risk). Ask your doctor to substitute lower-risk drugs if at all possible.
- Details on 877 drugs, 35 herbals and 148 chemicals that can damage your ears.
- Find whatever drug you are looking for fast whether you know the brand name or the generic name. 2,537 drug brand and generic names listed. See drug listings beginning on page 165.
- The two most common symptoms to watch for (before it is too late) that often warn you that drugs are beginning to damage your ears. See pages 46 & 52.
- Why you cannot rely on the “drug bibles” such as the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) that your doctor and pharmacist use for the whole truth about the ototoxic side effects of many drugs. See page 85.
- Use the special unique drug table to see at a glance which drugs in a given class of drugs are the most harmful to your ears so you and your doctor can choose less ototoxic ones. See page 629.
- 20 risk factors that increase your chances of having an ototoxic reaction to some of the drugs you are taking. These are especially important if you already have a hearing loss. See page 63.
- The numerous ototoxic chemicals that are in your home, workplace and environment. Find the ototoxic details fast. Chapter 16 lists 849 brand, chemical and common names. See page 681.
- Far less than 1% of ototoxic side effects are ever reported to the FDA. This makes the reported incidence figures in drug reference books like the PDR totally inaccurate and misleading. See pages 73-74.
- The drug combinations you should never take together, since these drugs often team up to smash your ears. See page 142.
- Why many drugs can be given a clean bill of health in regards to ototoxicity, yet they can severely damage your hearing. If you want to protect your ears, you need to know about this. Discover why one researcher can show that a given drug only causes hearing loss in 3% of the people taking it, while another researcher proves that it causes hearing loss in 100% of the people taking it. See page 95.
- Hard of hearing people often “hear” with their eyes since many rely on speechreading to understand what is said. If you are hard of hearing, you want to protect your eyes at all costs. Table 7-1 lists 43 drugs that can damage your eyes. Even more shocking, Table 7-2 lists 103 drugs that can damage both your eyes and your ears at the same time. See page 107.
- Certain drugs and noise team up to really harm your ears. Here are the drugs and chemicals you need to watch out for if you are around noise. See pages 113-114.
- Page 97 reveals why conventional hearing tests seldom catch drug-induced hearing loss until it is much too late.
- Learn a dozen ways you can reduce the risk to your ears. See page 66.
- Aminoglycoside antibiotics as a class are very ototoxic, especially if you have a particular genetic variation. Before you take any of these antibiotics, you should know whether you have this particular genetic variant. See page 123.
- Washing down your medications with grapefruit juice can increase your risk of ototoxicity by as much as 1,500%. Page 136 reveals the details.
- Your hearing ear dog may be your best friend, but he cannot help you if he loses his hearing. Table 12-1 lists 271 drugs prescribed by veterinarians that can damage your faithful pooches ears. See page 145.
Reviews:
“Neil Bauman has carefully researched ear-damaging (ototoxic) drugs. More and more people are inadvertently damaging their ears as they take powerful new medications and as they take multiple medications at the same time. As a result, this book is vital for both physicians and patients, especially for people who already have some degree of hearing loss.”—Dr. Harold McPheeters, MD
“When it comes to drugs, it is just appalling how much ignorance there is out there. The only sources I have found that are trustworthy are these: (1) your website and book “Ototoxic Drugs Exposed“, (2) some pharmacists and (3) my psychiatrist—mine is especially careful about drugs.”—N. B.
“I am so glad you wrote this book. It’s amazing, and a little scary, that so many doctors don’t know what the ototoxicity risks are for the drugs that they prescribe. Your book is even more thorough than the Physicians Desk Reference available on line. I would have been very anxious…if it weren’t for that fact that your book was available for me to refer to.”—S. K.
Printed softcover book, 3rd edition, 798 pages (Regular price $52.45) Now $42.45
Downloadable eBook in pdf format, 3rd edition, 798 pages ($39.95)