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 others in your general area. There is camaraderie. There are smiles. But a hurricane is a storm. In our ...
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 drying nature to the alcohol... a month of this practice is not going to hurt anything. We also carry a ...
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? Each time she said something to you she got a little bit louder because you didn’t answer her ...
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 increases when “workers are exposed to elevated noise levels.” One type of hearing loss OSHA notes as “especially hazardous” is speech ...
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 quiet can be kind of nice, right? “Why should I treat it,” you wonder? Should you treat or ...
