Ear Pain on a Plane
Your trip is planned. Your bags are packed, and you just found your seat on the flight to your dream destination. As you are flipping through one of the air-mall magazines and the plane starts to take off, you feel it. Your ears are popping, prickling. It’s not bad now, but you know it’s going…
What is an Otolaryngologist?
For our whole lives, we’ve known about the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Before we even had names to attach to them, we were using our senses to learn about everything from colors and shapes to the infinite complexity of the English language. When we were a little bit older, we learned…
Ask our ENT Doctors: Asthma and Allergy Emergencies
We all like to think that we’re prepared for an emergency, but at the end of the day, that might not be true. After all, in an emergency situation–no matter the nature of the event–there will always be a lot of stress, a lot of unknown variables, and, of course, very high stakes. The truth…
Boise Ear, Nose, and Throat: Swimmer’s Ear
As warm weather approaches and swimming suits begin to appear in every store, it is important to make sure that this summer’s swimming is done with safety and health in mind. One challenge you might find yourself facing is swimmer’s ear–so it’s important to know the details. Swimmer’s Ear When you have swimmer’s ear, what…
Advice From ENT Doctors: Dry Mouth
Having dry mouth can be extremely uncomfortable, but the truth is that it can also lead to countless other medical conditions that may become serious. Luckily, our ENT Doctors know a thing or two about dry mouth. A Closer Look at Dry Mouth Dry mouth, sometimes called xerostomia, is a condition caused by a dramatic…
Ask ENT Doctors: Tonsillitis
As human beings, our brains are wired to consider “worst case scenarios” all too often–especially when it comes to our health. A sore throat is one of the worst culprits, causing us to wonder if it’s something more serious, like tonsillitis, which can require the infamous tonsillectomy. Tonsillitis Tonsillitis can be tricky because, unlike other…
Ear, Nose, and Throat: Nighttime Coughing
It seems like the hallmark of every “sick day,” the part where it gets worse before it gets better: the nighttime coughing battle. Coughs naturally get worse at night, and our Ear, Nose, and Throat specialists took a closer look at the science behind why this happens. Coughing The strange thing about coughing is that…
The Nose Knows: Smoking Damages Your Sense of Smell
Unless you have been living in an underground bunker for the last 30 years, it should come as no surprise to you just how bad smoking is for your health. As if premature aging, increased risk of cancer and stroke, yellow teeth, bad breath, and shortness of breath weren’t enough, if you still smoke, say…
When Can An Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctor Help You?
We rarely stop to think about it, but our bodies are incredibly complex machines. Every inch of the human physique, from head to toe, has been designed to exist and thrive in a variety of environments and under countless types of stress. We have specially-designed features that transmit information about the world around us to…
Ear, Nose, and Throat: Your Voice
How often do you think about your voice? For most of us, the voice is something we pay very little attention to, except when we get sick or when someone happens to record us talking (and we all know how strange that is). A voice is something we habitually overlook. We don’t think about it….