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Tinnitus Treatment | Understanding Tinnitus

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Understanding Tinnitus and Its Treatment

What people need to understand about tinnitus is that it’s a condition that many people suffer from and can also be a symptom of an underlying disease.  With that being said, having tinnitus means that you have impairments in your auditory system. A damaged cochlea (hair cells inside of your ears) is one of the reasons you are experiencing this symptom, as it is linked to the nerves in your ears that produce sound. If these hair cells are damaged, they won’t be able to send sound waves back to the brain to perceive sound.

Another reason is age-related hearing loss. It’s common for a person to experience tinnitus when they are exposed to prolonged noise exposure and ototoxins (ear poison caused by drugs). So, tinnitus may be a sign of hearing loss for people taking chemotherapy.

Tinnitus is incurable. The extent can be mild …


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May062019May 6, 2019May 6, 2019by

Understanding and Relieving Dry Eyes

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The amount of time spent staring at computer screens and smartphones has increased the number of people making appointments at an optometrist Victoria complaining about dry eyes. At first they may pass it off as simple eye fatigue even blame seasonal allergies for their dry, itchy, irritated eyes, caused by all the screen time. The issue is that unlike reading a book or watching TV all the focusing requires the eye muscles to work much harder going back and forth. As a result all the focusing means we forget to blink, blinking is an important function that stimulates tear production and spreads the tears over the surface of the eye. As we continue to blink less frequently several issues arise with eyes feeling gritty and dry. When extended periods of time are spent in front of computer and smartphone screens remind yourself to blink, look up from the screen and …


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