The Shocking Truth About Prescription Drugs, Medications, Chemicals and Herbals That Can (and Do) Damage Our Ears
By Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
Ototoxic Drugs Exposed, now in the revised and greatly-expanded 4th edition, comprises a 3-volume bookset. It reveals the shocking truth that prescription and other drugs can, and often do damage our 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 quickly destroy your ears leaving you with profound, permanent hearing loss, and bringing unwanted, traumatic change into your life.
More importantly, this book also explains how you can help protect your ears from the ravages of ototoxic drugs and chemicals.
Quickly search the comprehensive listings for the specific ototoxic effects of each of the ear-damaging side effects of the 1,604 drugs, 64 herbals and 144 chemicals in this three-volume bookset. (1,662 pages). It has large, easy-to-read print, especially needed if you have “older eyes”.
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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 1,800 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 greatly-expanded, easy-to-read, 1,662 page fourth 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 45.
- 30 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 74.
- 56 drugs that have a high to severe risk of damaging your ears (and 216 that have a moderate risk). Ask your doctor to substitute lower-risk drugs if at all possible. See page 37.
- Details on 1,604 drugs, 64 herbals and 144 chemicals that can damage your ears.
- Find whatever drug you are looking for fast whether you know the brand name or the generic name. 6,546 drug, herbal and chemical brand and generic names listed. This index begins on page 277. Drug listings begin on page 435.
- 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 75 & 81.
- 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 pages 107-154.
- 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 1445.
- 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 95.
- The numerous ototoxic chemicals that are in your home, workplace and environment. Find the ototoxic details fast. Chapter 21 lists 144 chemicals beginning on page 1525.
- 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 page 107.
- The drug combinations you should never take together, since these drugs often team up to smash your ears. See page 248.
- 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 155.
- 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 10-1 lists 24 drugs that can damage your eyes. Even more shocking, Table 10-2 lists 123 drugs that can damage both your eyes and your ears at the same time. See pages 169-170.
- 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 175-178.
- Pages 158-160 reveal 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 102.
- 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 189.
- Washing down your medications with grapefruit juice can increase your risk of ototoxicity by as much as 1,500%. Page 238 reveals the details. There are 106 drugs known to interact with grapefruit juice. See page 239.
- Your hearing ear dog may be your best friend, but he cannot help you if he loses his hearing. Table 17-1 lists 303 drugs prescribed by veterinarians that can damage your faithful pooches ears. See pages 251-254.
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.
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