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Environmental and Hearing Health
On April 22nd each year, Earth Day serves as a global reminder to cherish and protect our planet for generations to come. In this blog post, let’s explore the intersection of environmental health and our hearing well-being. Although they may seem separate, these aspects of our lives are...
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Las Vegas Spring Allergies Impact on Hearing Health
Hearing loss can have various causes, and one often overlooked factor is seasonal allergies, particularly prevalent during spring in Las Vegas. Allergic reactions triggered by local allergens like pollen from mesquite trees and desert winds stirring up dust can exacerbate existing auditory issues....
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Love At First Sound
In any relationship, effective communication is vital for nurturing connection and understanding. However, when one partner experiences hearing loss, it can strain the relationship, leading to misunderstandings, frustration, and feelings of isolation. Despite these challenges, there is hope. Let's...
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The Impact of Smoking on Your Hearing Health
As the new year unfolds, it's a time of inspiration for many to embrace resolutions and lifestyle changes aimed at better health. Quitting smoking is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. While both smoking and hearing loss present significant health challenges, there's a notable...
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Struggling to Hear Amidst Background Noise?
As the holiday season is here, you may find yourself attending numerous gatherings, parties, and events this month. In such social settings, many people often first notice hearing loss, especially in noisy environments like pubs, clubs, restaurants, cafes, and lecture halls. These venues pose...
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Hassle-Free Travel with Hearing Aids
No matter where you travel around the world, protecting your hearing is essential. Traveling exposes you to various auditory hazards, from the loud roar of airplane engines to the risk of ear infections. Additionally, if you wear hearing aids, managing them while on the go can be a bit...
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October Audiology Awareness Month
October is the month dedicated to promoting hearing health, marked by informative awareness events like Audiology Awareness and National Protect Your Ears Month. Beyond just maintaining good hearing care, it is important to recognize the pivotal role hearing health plays in our daily lives....
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Airport Noise Pollution and Its Health Impacts
Air travel has become an integral part of modern life, connecting people and places across the globe. While airports are essential hubs of transportation, they also come with an often-overlooked consequence: noise pollution. The roar of jet engines, the whir of propellers, and the general hustle...
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Prioritizing Hearing Health: An Often Overlooked Check-Up
In our pursuit of maintaining good health, regular medical check-ups have become a familiar routine. We're accustomed to yearly physicals, dental appointments, and eye tests. However, hearing health usually flies under the radar. Compared to other aspects of health, we tend to give less thought to...
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Protecting Your Ears During Water Activities: Tips for Hearing Aid Users
With Las Vegas' scorching temperatures in the triple digits during the summer, engaging in water activities can provide a refreshing escape. However, it's vital to prioritize the protection of your ears and hearing aids during such experiences. While swimming, snorkeling, or participating in water...
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Enjoying the Open Road: Tips for Convertible Rides with Hearing Aids
As the weather gets warmer and warmer people are increasingly drawn to riding in convertibles with the top down. The freedom, fresh air, and picturesque views make for a delightful experience. However, for those who wear hearing aids, this joyous adventure can present unique challenges. Let’s...
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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month
May is recognized as Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM). This month is dedicated to raise awareness about communication disorders, promote hearing health, and highlight the important work of speech-language pathologists and audiologists in helping individuals with communication...
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Workplace Accommodations For Employees With Hearing Loss
Workplace accommodations for employees who are hearing impaired are essential to ensure that they are able to perform their job duties to the best of their ability. Hearing loss can be a significant barrier to effective communication in the workplace, and accommodations can help to mitigate the...
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Over-the-Counter vs Prescription Hearing Aids: Understanding the Differences
Hearing aids are devices designed to help those with hearing loss to better understand speech and other sounds around them. Hearing loss can occur due to several reasons, including age, exposure to loud noise, genetics, or illness. They work by amplifying sound and delivering it to the inner ear,...
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Hear The Sweet Nothings Whispered In Your Ear
It takes an average of seven years from the time people become aware of hearing issues to taking a hearing test and establishing a treatment plan. Unfortunately, this 7 year gap places the burden on family and friends, which can negatively impact relationships. Living with hearing loss makes it...
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Advancements In Hearing Aid Technology
While hearing aids have been around for decades, recent advances in technology have led to the development of improved sound quality and customization options. One major advancement in hearing aid technology is the use of materials, such as graphene and ceramic. Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of...
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Celebrating the Holidays With Hearing Loss
Although December is a wonderful month to spend time with loved ones, people who are hard of hearing may have some uneasiness due to the increased noise levels associated with visits, parties, and celebrations. Here are some tips for those who are hard of hearing or who will be hosting family...
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Hearing Loss Issues in Children
The majority of patients we see at Southern Nevada Audiology are primarily adults. However, we promote awareness of signs of hearing loss at any age. Hearing loss is not only limited to the elderly but can develop at any stage of life. For the development and growth of a child, treatment for...
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Importance of Addressing Hearing Loss
Despite the fact that approximately 48 million Americans have some form of hearing loss, few tend to address the issue in a timely manner. Seven years pass on average between the first sign of hearing loss and the time taken to schedule a hearing exam. This is quite unfortunate because the...
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Itchy Ears - Causes & Treatments
What Can I Do If My Ears Are Itchy? Occasional ear itching is a frequent problem. The impulse to scratch one's ears is strong since these areas are so sensitive and vulnerable to infection. In most cases, this is not a problem. However, ear itching can occasionally lead to more serious issues,...
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Hearing Loss May Increase the Risk of Falls and Other Mishaps
The tendency to believe that only your ears are affected by hearing loss is reasonable. Most tend to only focus on the body part being affected and their immediate symptoms. As it turns out, having trouble hearing may also increase your risk of falling and other mishaps. Most people with...
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Illness & Ear Infections
Coughs, stuffy nose and fever are common signs of getting sick. No matter the measures taken to help prevent it, certain illnesses can be infectious and may spread quickly. An ear can become infected when the body becomes sick due to flu or allergies or even the common cold -- any type of...
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Hearing Health & Summertime Activities
Summertime is here again! During the summer, there is a huge boom of outdoor events like conventions, concerts and water activities. The thing that connects large conventions, summer tours and even swimming is the underlying risks these activities pose to the ear and ultimately hearing. The ear...
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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month
Every year, the month of May is used to bring awareness to a communications issue that 10% of the world's population is affected by Hearing Loss and Speech Problems. With 5% of the population experiencing some form of hearing loss and another 5% experiencing some form of a speech problem, that...
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About That Ear Wax
The body has many unique ways of defending itself from countless foreign bodies such as dust, pollen, bacteria, bugs and many, many other potential invaders. One such way the body does this is by producing things like mucus and earwax. Both of these icky, sticky substances, amazingly, are the...
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Traveling With Hearing Aids
Preparing for a vacation can be exciting and exhausting. Vacations are fun, they take people to new places with new experiences, people, food and for some, a renewed mind. Over 60% of brave vacationers say they feel more relaxed after a vacation which means they are more than likely to do it...
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Hearing Loss & Relationships
Many nations around the world have a day where love is celebrated with candy, dates or flowers. Relationships, especially long lasting ones, usually start from the same place: communication. Talking to someone is the first step to getting to know them: what do they like, what do they fear, what...
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Keep Hearing Health Golden
The new year is filled with all sorts of lovely sights and sounds. Fireworks lighting up the sky, the pop - fizz of champagne bottles and the joyous cries of "Happy New Year!" filling the air. The sense that reigns over this moment is hearing. Most probably do not think about it but should the...
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Cleaning Hearing Aids
Many holidays take place during colder months with a focus on gathering with family and friends. With about 50% of families in America having at least one person experiencing hearing loss or being hard of hearing, it is important to know how to properly communicate and include any loved ones who...
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Special Accommodations For Family Gatherings
Holidays are a great time for families to come together to relax, reconnect and feast. Families can differ in ages, interests, backgrounds and needs. When a family comes together, it is a joyous and wondrous occasion, but it also means that some special accommodations should be taken care of for...
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Annual Hearing Test
The ear is an organ we use every single day. First thing in the morning is the alarm clock or the sizzle of breakfast. It is nearly impossible to escape the sensation of sound. This is why it is so hard to tell when hearing loss is becoming an issue as the lesser sound of yesterday seamlessly...
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Signs of Hearing Loss in a Loved One
When it comes to hearing loss, the news is most impactful especially delivered from a loved one. The ones closest to those experiencing hearing loss are most likely to notice it and also be in a position to prompt them to make a hearing health appointment. For friends and family of those who may...
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The Dangers of Untreated Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss can be a critical factor that affects a person’s social life, mental health and physical health. Despite that, hearing loss is not often discussed in detail and is often left untreated. The idea of not being able to hear well might seem like "not such a big deal" but to the...
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Getting Water Out Of Ears
Summer is upon us once again! Time for vacations which means relaxing, bonding and water activities like swimming. However, there are hidden concerns in getting those ears wet. Ears are both resilient and sensitive. The ear can manage itself well enough to make loud noises bearable but something...
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Gardening & Hearing Health
Gardening is a hobby that can be done indoor or outdoor and worked on year round. This hobby also has many benefits and if the garden just so happens to hold vegetables then the benefits are felt a little closer to the heart. Literally! Healthy meals can help lower blood pressure which can put...
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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month
May is the month dedicated to celebrating better hearing and speech. This month is all about raising awareness for speech and hearing issues in hopes to make people’s lives more productive, increasingly safer, and more enjoyable by promoting hearing loss screenings and prevention. When it...
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Video Conferencing while Hearing Impaired
Change in social climate has also caused noticeable change in the workplace. For those who work with groups of people, like educators, the change is drastic. From standing before a group to talking into a camera, it is very different from the norm. This new normal of video calls and video...
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Employment & Hearing Health
Ears, both the inner ear and outer ear, are affected by the environment around them. The most common hazards are temperature, noise and particles in the air or water. Extreme temperatures both hot and cold have been known to affect the inner ear by causing conditions like ‘Swimmer’s Ear’....
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Loneliness and Hearing Loss
Loneliness and hearing loss, is there a connection? Yes. Before birth, humans connect to the world around them through their five senses and hearing is the most influential at that time of life. Hearing connects us to the world in many ways but the most valuable influences are the ones we share...
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Hearing Aid Maintenance
Hearing aids are a significant hearing health investment. If maintained and cared for properly they can last for many years. SNA recommends for hearing aids to be checked at least twice a year. However, in between checkups, it is imperative to keep the outer and inner workings of hearing...
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Phones for Hearing Impaired
Hearing loss can make conversations over the phone nearly impossible without a specialty phone. Home phones with enlarged buttons and special speakers that are louder than the average home phone are an invaluable tool to those with hearing loss. These specialty phones help keep users in touch with...
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Ears Are AMAZING
Ears are amazing at adapting to the environment around them. In loud environments, the first reaction most people have is to cover their ears in an attempt to block the sound. Overwhelming volumes can initially cause a ringing sound or painful sensation but the ear will adapt until the sounds...
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Listening Environments
Days can begin quiet and quickly change as they progress. A combination of usual background noises, conversations, outside noises, television and music can offer challenges for those with hearing loss. Listening environments vary from person to person. Some people have very high...
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Ear Health
A healthy ear is a clean ear. Properly caring for them can help prevent hearing loss and ear infections. Ears are meant to have some wax within them. Earwax is like a trap that helps prevent harmful things that could get into the body such as foreign objects and bacteria. Usually, earwax or...
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Lip Readers, Hearing Impaired & Masks
Masks, while integral to the protection of the user and the slowing of the spread of viruses, can make it challenging to hear people. It muffles the speaker’s voice, covers their mouth and makes it impossible to lip read. For people who rely on lip reading to communicate, this usually spells the...
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Face Masks & Hearing Aids
Care for our own safety and the safety of our community and loved ones encourages us to wear masks whenever we step out of our homes. It has been scientifically proven that masks greatly help control the spread of the Covid-19 virus, keeping it contained while also halting its advance. The...
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Listen Up - Hearing Health
Ears are resilient yet delicate organs that can recover from common problems like tenderness or ‘ringing’ in the ears on their own. Some common problems surprisingly have easy solutions. The ‘popping’ in ears when driving around mountains or scuba diving can be combated by slowing your...
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TV Volume & Hearing Aids
Stay at home order has families spending extra time together. While great memories are being created those with hearing aid issues can have a different experience. The volume on the TV or a mobile device might be an indication of a hearing issue or a hearing aid on the fritz. If you find a...
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Hearing Loss During Stay At Home Order
Staying physically active and socially engaged may be more challenging at this time but not impossible! Here are a few tips to stay active physically, socially and mentally during the Stay at Home Order. The most fundamental tip would be to create a new routine, one that takes into...
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How Hearing Aids Can Relieve Symptoms of Tinnitus
Tinnitus is a condition in which a person perceives sound that is not actually present in the environment. It is often described as "ringing in the ears" but can include virtually any type of sound including whooshing, hissing, or whistling. Tinnitus is a common health issue that impacts...
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The Importance Of Utilizing Hearing Aids
When hearing aids are medically advised to be worn, it is not just to help people hear better. It also helps maintain what hearing capacities remain. Neglecting instruction to wear aids is likely to result in further hearing loss. It is important to wear them, as it helps to maintain strong...
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Limit Exposure To Loud Noises
We are born with around 16,000 hair cells in the ear. These hair cells are what the brain uses to detect sound. Hair cells do not regenerate, and by the time someone notices hearing loss, many hair cells have already vanished. After attending loud events, one may temporarily lose the ability...
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Traveling This Holiday Season?
Many airports, train stations, places of worship, theaters, auditoriums and more now feature hearing aid accessibility enhancements. Known as an induction loop system, a signal emits directly to hearing aids and cochlear implants. Even amidst heavy background noise, you will be able to hear with...
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Tips For Enjoying The Precious Moments
With the holidays fast approaching you may engage in more frequent social gatherings. Whether you suffer from hearing loss or have a family member who does, here are some tips for improving your precious time together. Get their attention first Say their name or gently touch them first before...
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Hear Each Moment Fully
We tend to take for granted the ability to hear until it begins to fade away. Our ears contribute to many of life’s precious memories. To live fully means to hear each moment, especially with the ones we love. Hearing difficulties can cause miscommunication, disengagement from...
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Ears Need Rest
We are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises from electronics to traffic. It can be easy to forget that our ears work 24 hours a day and need an occasional break. Dedicating quiet time for 10 minutes, 3 times a day can help our ears and brain rejuvenate. A good ear rest can...
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Hearing Aid Technology To Match Your Lifestyle
Listening environments vary from person to person. Some people have very high demanding environments and others have low demanding environments.Finding the right hearing aid depends on a number of factors such as a person’s unique preferences, lifestyle and the type of hearing...
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Recommended Books For Anyone Struggling With Hearing Loss
Many of your patients may have travel plans to see family and friends over the holidays. Between flights, UBER rides, and time spent waiting for both they’ll have a lot of downtime. Because of this, you have an opportunity to recommend some great books on hearing loss and how to cope with it.Such...
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Loss of hearing is just a problem for the elderly, right?
Reconsider that thought, because exposure to noise – and not a person's age – is the main trigger of hearing loss. It's commonplace for older persons to suffer from hearing problems, but more younger people are affected by everyday noise as well. The post-war generation is going through skin...
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