January 18, 2023 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
It’s important to educate yourself about hearing loss, particularly if you or somebody you know is coping with it. This is to help you better manage your condition and avoid making important decisions based on inaccurate information. When you’re coping with hearing loss, ignore the following myths. Hearing loss isn’t a big deal as long […]
January 4, 2023 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
Every day scientists are finding new cures. That can be a good thing and a bad thing. For example, you might look at encouraging new research in the area of curing hearing loss and you decide you don’t really need to be all that cautious. You’ll feel like they will likely have a cure for […]
December 21, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
If you’re subjected to a lot of loud sound and don’t use hearing protection, you may experience hearing loss later in life. Similarly, if you work on a busy factory floor and don’t wear ear protection, hearing loss may be in your future. These hearing loss causes are rather common. But there’s a new fighter […]
December 13, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
For you and the people you love, living with hearing loss can be difficult to adjust to. It can also come with some perils. What happens if a fire alarm is going off or somebody is shouting out your name but you can’t hear them? Car noises can indicate dangers ahead, but if you have […]
December 1, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
Want to suck all the fun out of your next family get-together? Start talking about dementia. Dementia is not a subject most individuals are actively looking to talk about, mostly because it’s pretty frightening. A degenerative mental disease in which you gradually (or, more terrifyingly, quickly) lose your mental faculties, dementia forces you to lose […]
November 10, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
So, so many family get-togethers. During the holidays, it probably seems like you’re meeting (or re-meeting) a new long-lost relative every other weekend. That’s the appeal (and, some might say, the bane) of the holiday season. Normally, it’s easy to look forward to this annual catching up. You get to reunite with everybody and find […]
October 26, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
There are other symptoms of a cold that are less prevalent than the widely recognized runny nose. Occasionally, a cold can go into one or both ears, though you rarely hear about those. While you may generally think of colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom shouldn’t ever be dismissed. What does a […]
September 27, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
There are lots of well recognized causes of hearing loss, but not many people realize the dangers that some chemicals present to their hearing. At risk groups include automotive workers, plastics, textiles, metal fabrication, and petroleum. You can safeguard your quality of life by knowing what these chemicals are and what precautions to take. Some […]
September 21, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
Aiden enjoys music. He listens to Spotify while at work, switches to Pandora while jogging, and he has a playlist for everything: cardio, cooking, video games, you name it. Everything in his life has a soundtrack and it’s playing on his headphones. But lasting hearing damage might be happening due to the very loud immersive […]
September 8, 2022 | Family Hearing and Tinnitus Centre
Because you’re so cool, you were in the front row for the entire rock concert last night. It’s enjoyable, though it isn’t good for your ears which will be ringing when you wake up the next morning. (That part’s not so fun.) But what happens if you can only hear out of one ear when […]