While many people have hearing loss or tinnitus caused by aging, or by exposure to very loud environmental noise, hearing loss can also be caused by Meniere’s disease. This disease, named after the French doctor who discovered the illness in the 1800s, causes pain in...
Earwax is a sticky, unpleasant, but vital substance in our ears. It helps to trap debris and protects your ear canal from growing bacteria. But if you don’t regularly clean your ears, or if your ears contain just a lot of wax, it may build up and block your ear...
Hearing loss can come from several different causes, including aging, injury, exposure to noise, illness, or even passed down from your parents. Those factors affect the auditory nerve, creating the most common type of hearing loss we call sensorineural hearing loss....
Otherwise known as cerumen, earwax consists of cells of the oil, blood, dirt, and dead skin. This sticky paste is just the right consistency to trap microscopic particles and bacteria which might otherwise find their way into the ear canal, causing inflammation or...