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…
Signs Your Child Has Allergies
Sometimes what looks like the common cold isn’t just that. If your child is suffering from an ongoing cough and runny nose, there may be more at play. Allergies are a reaction by the immune system to foreign substances that come into contact with the body. Respiratory allergies take time to develop and will show…
The Path to a Good Night’s Sleep
A restorative night of sleep is something everybody wants. If you find yourself unable to figure out why you are tired and feel sleep deprived it may be time to see an ear throat and nose specialist. A specialist will be able to diagnosis you with sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is the interruption of breathing…
Teaching Children the Importance of Hand Washing
Children love when they get to skip a day at school. They romanticize the possibility of getting their tonsils out so they can subsist on a diet of ice-cream and pudding. Parents, on the other hand, don’t see tonsillectomy as a blessing in disguise. They would rather not see their child in pain and having…
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…
Sinus Infections in Children and Their Causes
From infancy, children are faced with new bacteria, colds, and flu which they must build immunity to in order to get over sicknesses. Your kids will have many colds as they grow up, but some children will especially suffer from sinus problems. It ‘s hard, especially with young children, to deal with sinus problems as…
Sinus Sufferer? Here are Some Minimally Invasive Options
So many individuals (more than you may think) suffer from daily sinus problems. Do you experience nasal discharge or draining into the back of your throat, persistent headaches behind your eyes, loss of taste or smell, difficulty breathing through your nose or other sinus related complaints? These ailments are commonly heard by ear nose and…
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….
Frequent Nosebleeds: Common or Chronic
Nosebleeds are one of those things–many of us get them, but few of us know what actually causes them. Some children are frequently plagued while others go through their entire childhood with nary a drop of blood shed. So, what’s the scoop? Nose Anatomy Before we look at some of the causes of a nose…
Snoring and Sleep Apnea
Do you remember watching cartoons when you were a child? Although we likely didn’t appreciate it back then, cartoons worked hard to show that an action was taking place in an animated world. For example, how did we used to know that a cartoon character was sleeping? The action of “sleeping” was conveyed using those…