Many dog ear infections and cat ear infections are caused by allergies. What are the symptoms of an ear infection? Look for head shaking, scratching or rubbing ears, discharge from ears, bad smelling or tender, red ears. Though conventional medicine is available for ear infections there are many natural remedies you can try. Here are a few home remedies you can try which have been recommended by holistic or natural care veterinarians.

Use vinegar to clean your pets ear - If you find a large quantity of brownish pink wax inside your pets ear, there is a possibility that a yeast infection has developed. A yeast infection can be cured by using white vinegar. Veterinarians who advocate natural treatment say using white vinegar is good because it eliminates dirt and debris. Vinegar also helps restore the proper chemical balance in the ears. Pour a small amount of white vinegar into the ear canal. Use an eye dropper so you can control the amount of vinegar. Massage the area gently and gently clean the inside of the ear with a cotton ball. Once a day perform this routine until the ear is healed.

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Many believe that age-related loss of hearing is inevitable, that it should occur as we get older but did you know that by including certain foods in your diet you can improve hearing? You heard me right, hearing can be improved not only by reducing exposure to noise, having implants, having hearing aids, or by having your ears regularly cleaned by professionals but also by making lifestyle changes particularly in the kind of food you eat.

Studies have shown that those suffering from varying degrees of hearing loss also suffer from nutritional deficiency as well. Improve hearing by including the foods that will be mentioned later in this article in your daily diet and you will have gone many steps forward not only in benefiting your ears but your overall physical health as well.

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We live in noisy world which is why it’s inevitable that you get exposed to loud noises everyday from your neighbor’s incessant dog barks, your wife watching her favorite sitcom, you at your power tools, your daughter with his blasting mp3 player music, and your son at a rock concert. These are the reasons why the exercises that will be described in the next section are necessary if you want to improve hearing and put ear problems that lead to hearing loss at bay.

Noise Filtering Exercise
Is a simple exercise that allows you to improve your ear’s ability to pick out sounds which you only want to hear. Before you start, you’ll need two or more sources of music and a sibling or a friend or your Mom or just someone who can talk. (more…)

Surprising as it may sound, pregnancy can cause ringing ears. Many pregnant women experience ringing ears during pregnancy along with common symptoms such as dizziness and nausea. Women often get nervous because tinnitus is not something they had originally expected during their pregnancy.

Fortunately, ringing does not affect your pregnancy but rather your pregnancy is the event that may have triggered your tinnitus. It is very distracting but as long as it does not get worse or the condition is not accompanied with pain, you are totally fine. However, you must be very observant on what is happening to your body so that can assess the situation and take measures if you feel the condition is out of the ordinary. (more…)

Hearing loss can be caused by a lot of different things, and the most successful chances a person has of reversing it is by diagnosing it early on. Studies have shown that immersing yourself in noise, like in an airport, concerts and so forth is one way of getting hearing loss. A person can also be born with hearing disabilities if he or she has been found out to have malfunctioning and abnormal hearing parts.

Other times, hearing is a temporary thing caused by some kind of sickness a person caught from someone else. Astonishingly, taking medicines can very well give you loss of hearing as well as being sick. Hitting or bumping your head really hard doesn’t just hurt, it can also lead to hearing impairment.

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If you are a tinnitus suffer (like me) then you might have tried all types of tinnitus therapy over the years. Because it’s such an irritating condition we sufferers tend to be very persistent in trying just about anything! If somebody told me to wear totally different coloured socks as a cure, I’d be onto it in a flash!

Therefore, here are 5 types of tinnitus therapy, using herbal/natural ingredients:

Ginkgo Biloba

As we understand, Chinese herbalists have been developing and using herbal cures for thousands of years. They have been using ginkgo for centuries as a natural tinnitus therapy, although only within the last twenty years or so has it been used in the West. Several clinical studies have shown the effectiveness of ginkgo biloba in improving and preserving the wellbeing of the circulatory system and assuaging several conditions related to the ordinary aging process. It takes a while to get going apparently, so if you try ginkgo, then make certain you utilize it persistently for a number of weeks or perhaps months.

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There are so many occasions when John Bloom thinks he hears the chirping of crickets in his head. Sometimes it is like an extremely high pitched whistle. At other times, it sounds very much like an electronic music instrument. Funnier still is when it sounds something like a constant hissing sound.

It is something like a living hell for this Californian who says he constantly hears menacing sounds that cause a complete disruption of his thought process, the root cause being an ailment called tinnitus that permanently affects the inner ear and brain. He dreads every single day that he has to live.

The principal cause of this ailment is loud sounds of any type and the result is that the affected person gradually loses his hearing. More than other factors, ageing is certainly responsible for tinnitus.

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There are a number of different causes of hearing loss. It might be damage to the cochlea, which occurs when tiny hairs inside of the cochlea bend or break, which causes the nerve cells in the ear to degenerate. This means that electrical signals are not transmitted to the ear as quickly or efficiently as possible, which could result in severe hearing loss over time. Or the problem could be due to recurrent ear infections or wax buildup, or it might be hereditary in nature.

Having a hearing assessment done by a professional audiologist will help you to determine the steps that you need to take to maintain and improve your hearing health. Your level of hearing is measured in decibels as well as frequency. Humans should be able to hear between the frequencies of 500 and 4000Hz, so if your hearing is normal, your hearing assessment will probably indicate that you can hear from 0 to 20 dB HL. If you are experiencing mild hearing loss, the reading will be in the 20-40 range; moderate hearing loss reads from 40-60, and severe hearing loss is 60-80. If your assessment reads 80 dB HL or more, your audiologist will give you information on the best devices for profound hearing loss.

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