Fellings of pressure (or blocked feeling) in the ears can be caused by middle ear infections. They can also be caused by rapid hearing loss in the inner ear and as such need to be treated as medical emergencies. Learn how to tell the difference and what you need to do.
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Hope for Sudden Hearing Loss?
What are the best options for people suffering from severe cases of sudden hearing loss?
Visor Cards Revisited
Visor Cards can help bridge the initial communications problems for hard of hearing or deaf people when they are stopped by the police, especially at night. In like manner, Wallet Cards do the same at security checkpoints.
Clarithromycin, Noise and Permanent Tinnitus
Clarithromycin can cause tinnitus and hearing loss. However, there may be a link between taking Clarithromycin and developing permanent severe tinnitus after subsequently exposing your ears to louder sounds.
Quinine Induced Tinnitus
Taking Quinine can precipitate immediate annoying tinnitus, especially if you already have some tinnitus. Learn more.
Single-Sided Deafness and Directional Hearing Tricks
Single-sided deafness causes unique challenges of its own because you can no longer tell from which direction sounds are coming. Here are some tricks to help you cope with only hearing in one ear.
Even One Application of Neomycin Can Cause Hearing Loss
Even just a topical application of Neomycin to a cut in the skin can result in hearing loss and other ear damage.
Hearing Loss: Replace Fear with Hope
Hearing loss produces fear of the unknown. In order to successfully cope with hearing loss, you need to gain knowledge of hearing loss coping strategies so that you can replace fear with hope.
The One Feature of Hearing Aids That Most Correlates to Customer Satisfaction
There are two features of digital hearing aids that most contribute to the satisfaction of the people wearing them. These two features are noise-reduction circuitry and directional microphones.
Loud Music and Hearing Loss
Listening to loud music causes permanent hearing loss. Here is one young man’s story.