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Your hearing DOES matter!
Foods for improving hearing
Potassium: Responsible for regulating the amount of
fluid in your blood and body tissue. As we age, potassium
levels lower. Potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, raisins, bananas,
melons.
– By Elka Gold, Audiologist
Your mother was right: Put nothing smaller than your
elbow in your ear.
Zinc: Responsible for cell growth and healing wounds,
as well as for boosting immune system, which helps
lower ear infections and parasites. Dark meats, cashews,
almonds, beans, peas, oysters.
Magnesium: Combats the effects of free radicals
emitted during loud noises. Lack of magnesium can cause
blood vessels to shrink. Bananas, artichokes, potatoes,
broccoli, tomatoes.
Folic Acid: Critical for generating new cell growth,
and reducing hearing loss. Liver, spinach, broccoli,
asparagus, healthy cereals.
Bottom line: Refrain from consuming too many frozen
or canned foods, and choose fresh ingredients!
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Your ear is actually self-cleaning, and ear wax is an integral
part of that self-cleaning mechanism. Ear wax is produced
by glands at the back of your ear canal close to the eardrum.
The mechanism that self-cleans the ear canal moves the wax
along the entire length of the ear canal and will eventually
push it out of the ear. Along the way down your ear canal,
the wax will collect dirt, debris, bacteria, and on occasion
insects, and will move them out of the ear, protecting the
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When you use a cotton-swab, you disrupt this self-cleaning
mechanism, and wax gets pushed back down the canal. After
doing this multiple times, the wax may not be able to migrate
out of your ear naturally and may actually create a blockage in
your ear, causing loss of hearing until the wax is removed. If
this happens, you will need to have wax removed professionally.
So how do you clean your ears? Well, you don’t. The rule
“Put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear” still applies.
There is really nothing you can or should do at home to safely
manage the accumulation of wax in the canal. Use no ear
drops or mechanical devices without having your audiologist
or physician properly inspect your ear canal and ear drum.
Nevertheless, some people do need help with the wax build
up in their ears. Some people produce great amounts of ear
wax. Others find that as they get older, the wax is drier and
builds up in the ear. For these people, it is necessary to have
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Sense of Hearing can safely and effectively remove the wax from
your ear should you have excess accumulation or blockage.
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