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Can Hearing Aids Help with Tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a phantom ringing, roaring, whistling, hissing, humming or buzzing sound with no external source. Affecting approximately 50 million people across the nation, tinnitus symptoms are different for everybody. It can be in one…
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Has Allergy Season Started? When Will It End?
For many people, the sight of flowers blooming on trees along Highway 17 and in neighbors’ gardens signals the start of allergy season. But allergy season isn’t the same for everybody; in fact, it depends…
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How to Care for Your Hearing Aid Batteries
When you get a new pair of hearing aids, your audiologist will walk you through how to turn them on and off, insert and remove them, and change the batteries. It’s also important to pay…
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What to Look for in a Hearing Aid
If you’ve visited an audiologist for a hearing test and found out you have hearing loss, the next step is to select a hearing aid. Hearing aids connect you to the world around you, making…
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The Different Types of Allergy Tests
If you’re hiking through Ravenel Waterfront Park and suddenly begin to have itchy, watery eyes and feel sneezy, you’ve most likely been exposed to an allergen. Allergens are substances that are typically harmless but that…
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Signs You Should Treat Your Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is common, affecting approximately 48 million people across the U.S. Yet despite its prevalence, many people put off seeking treatment. In fact, only one in five people who could benefit from hearing aids…
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Hearing Aids Can Help Improve Listening Fatigue
Most people are familiar with that feeling of exhaustion after leaving a party or ending a Zoom call, but many are unfamiliar with what the feeling is called. Audiologists refer to it as listening fatigue,…
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How Spring Allergies Affect Your Ears
Springtime means getting to enjoy evening thunderstorms and beautiful flowers, but for many, it also means seasonal allergy symptoms. For some, this can result in pain or discomfort involving the ears. We review how spring…
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Caring for Your Hearing Aids
Your hearing aids represent a significant investment in terms of both financial cost and the amount of time you spent with your audiologist identifying your exact type and degree of hearing loss, selecting the best…
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How to Adjust to Your Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are the preferred treatment for most of the 48 million Americans who have hearing loss. Today’s devices are amazing in their ability to provide amplification only of sounds you want to hear, connect…