Hearing Blog – March 2020

Our area is no stranger to the prep work of hunkering down for a hurricane. But this nasty virus is a horse of another color. During a hurricane everyone is hustling and bustling around and sharing storm tracks and ice. When you are standing in line pumping gas or getting ice…you still feel connected to […]

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Please remember to clean your hearing aids. COVID-19 can stay on the plastics for up to 3 days.    In this situation; you can wipe them down with rubbing alcohol on a paper towel or the alcohol wipes. While we don’t recommend long term use of rubbing alcohol on your hearing instruments due to the […]

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Recruitment usually occurs within a certain area of the patients hearing loss. You may be able to crank up the music with no issue but then someone simply raising their voice just a tad too loud makes you cringe.  How many times have you told your wife that she didn’t need to yell at you? […]

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The National Safety Council’s Safety + Health magazine recently published an article about ototoxicants, chemicals that can cause hearing loss and balance issues. In the article, warnings were shared from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about which industries have higher exposure risks to these chemicals — and how the adverse effects of ototoxicants […]

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Does this sound familiar? Either you or someone you know is just starting to deal with hearing loss. But instead of taking it seriously, you brush it aside.  You can cope, you’ve decided. You’ll just turn the TV up a little louder. Ask people to speak up or repeat what they said. And really, the […]

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