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The Healthy Hearing Report

Each week the Healthy Hearing Report team publishes helpful information about living with hearing loss, tinnitus and other auditory disorders. 

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Can vitamin B12 deficiency cause hearing loss?

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Growing evidence suggests that B12 deficiency may be associated with hearing loss and possibly tinnitus, especially in older adults.

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Can vitamin B12 deficiency cause hearing loss?

Growing evidence suggests that B12 deficiency may be associated with hearing loss and possibly tinnitus, especially in older adults.

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Why anxiety and dizziness often go hand-in-hand

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Chronic vertigo, dizziness, and disequilibrium are often caused by balance disorders and tend to go hand in hand with anxiety. Here's how to get a handle on both.

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Why anxiety and dizziness often go hand-in-hand

Chronic vertigo, dizziness, and disequilibrium are often caused by balance disorders and tend to go hand in hand with anxiety. Here's how to get a handle on both.

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Fireworks and hearing loss: How to stay safe

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Fireworks create noise and a blast wave that can harm your hearing. Here's how to protect yourself and your family.

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Fireworks and hearing loss: How to stay safe

Fireworks create noise and a blast wave that can harm your hearing. Here's how to protect yourself and your family.

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Doctor not taking your tinnitus seriously? Don't lose hope

A woman in bed, struggling with tinnitus keeping her up at night.

It's common for tinnitus patients to feel dismissed by their doctors, and to lose hope in the process. Here's why that happens so often, and what you can do to feel better.

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Doctor not taking your tinnitus seriously? Don't lose hope

It's common for tinnitus patients to feel dismissed by their doctors, and to lose hope in the process. Here's why that happens so often, and what you can do to feel better.

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Meniere's disease, labyrinthitis, or BPPV?

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Labyrinthitis, BPPV and Meniere’s disease are all inner ear disorders that cause dizziness. Here's how to tell them apart.

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Meniere's disease, labyrinthitis, or BPPV?

Labyrinthitis, BPPV and Meniere’s disease are all inner ear disorders that cause dizziness. Here's how to tell them apart.

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Age-related hearing loss

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Learn about age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), its symptoms, causes, and treatment options to help you or your loved ones hear better as you age.

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Age-related hearing loss

Learn about age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), its symptoms, causes, and treatment options to help you or your loved ones hear better as you age.

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Got a bug in your ear? Here's what to do

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It happens more than you think. Bugs, batteries, beads, hearing aid parts, cotton swabs are all commonly trapped items stuck in ears. Here's what to do if it happens to you.

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Got a bug in your ear? Here's what to do

It happens more than you think. Bugs, batteries, beads, hearing aid parts, cotton swabs are all commonly trapped items stuck in ears. Here's what to do if it happens to you.

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Birding with hearing loss: How hearing aids help

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Age-related hearing loss can make it much harder to hear birdsong, which is a beloved sound for many people, especially birders. Fortunately, hearing aids and amplifiers can bring back the sounds of nature.

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Birding with hearing loss: How hearing aids help

Age-related hearing loss can make it much harder to hear birdsong, which is a beloved sound for many people, especially birders. Fortunately, hearing aids and amplifiers can bring back the sounds of nature.

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Causes of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL)

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Learn about the many different causes of sensorineural hearing loss, the most common type of hearing loss.

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Causes of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL)

Learn about the many different causes of sensorineural hearing loss, the most common type of hearing loss.

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How tinnitus can cause or exacerbate PTSD

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Tinnitus coach Glenn Schweitzer makes the case that tinnitus is less like a hearing disorder and more like a complex stress disorder that requires multiple tools and treatment options.

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How tinnitus can cause or exacerbate PTSD

Tinnitus coach Glenn Schweitzer makes the case that tinnitus is less like a hearing disorder and more like a complex stress disorder that requires multiple tools and treatment options.

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Drinking and hearing loss

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You might know the health risks associated with heavy drinking, but it may surprise you to know it can also harm your hearing and balance. Learn more and know when to seek help.

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Drinking and hearing loss

You might know the health risks associated with heavy drinking, but it may surprise you to know it can also harm your hearing and balance. Learn more and know when to seek help.

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Hearing aid settings: What you need to know

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Hearing aids come with default settings, but your hearing care provider can also set up custom programs, such as music listening or for driving in a car.

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Hearing aid settings: What you need to know

Hearing aids come with default settings, but your hearing care provider can also set up custom programs, such as music listening or for driving in a car.

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Millennials and Gen Z are at increased risk for hearing loss

Why hearing loss is becoming more common among younger generations.

Hearing loss isn’t just for seniors-teens and young adults are at risk too. Learn about causes, prevention, and how to protect your hearing health.

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Millennials and Gen Z are at increased risk for hearing loss

Hearing loss isn’t just for seniors-teens and young adults are at risk too. Learn about causes, prevention, and how to protect your hearing health.

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What is pulsatile tinnitus?

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In rare cases, a person can hear their pulse, which is known as pulsatile tinnitus. It requires prompt medical attention to make sure nothing serious is afoot.

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What is pulsatile tinnitus?

In rare cases, a person can hear their pulse, which is known as pulsatile tinnitus. It requires prompt medical attention to make sure nothing serious is afoot.

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Drugs that can cause hearing loss or tinnitus

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Hearing loss and ear ringing (tinnitus) can be a side effect of ototoxic medication and drugs. Find out which drugs can cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.

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Drugs that can cause hearing loss or tinnitus

Hearing loss and ear ringing (tinnitus) can be a side effect of ototoxic medication and drugs. Find out which drugs can cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.

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Our top children's books about hearing loss

Books on hearing loss and hearing aids help kids (or grandkids) learn to celebrate the differences in others. They also make great stocking stuffers and gifts.

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Our top children's books about hearing loss

Books on hearing loss and hearing aids help kids (or grandkids) learn to celebrate the differences in others. They also make great stocking stuffers and gifts.

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ADA guidelines for the hearing impaired

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Here's what you need to know about rights for people with hearing loss, including as an employee, parent or consumer under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA.

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ADA guidelines for the hearing impaired

Here's what you need to know about rights for people with hearing loss, including as an employee, parent or consumer under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA.

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Shooter's ear: Hearing loss caused by gunfire

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Even with hearing protection, gunfire is so loud that people who are exposed to it regularly—such as active-duty and retired military service members—will likely develop hearing loss later in life.

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Shooter's ear: Hearing loss caused by gunfire

Even with hearing protection, gunfire is so loud that people who are exposed to it regularly—such as active-duty and retired military service members—will likely develop hearing loss later in life.

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Four causes of temporary hearing loss in kids

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Infection, earwax and other reasons your child may suddenly be struggling to hear.

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Four causes of temporary hearing loss in kids

Infection, earwax and other reasons your child may suddenly be struggling to hear.

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How audiobooks can sharpen your hearing

A woman listens to an audiobook at home.

Love books? If you've got hearing loss, listening to audiobooks is a form of auditory therapy that can help sharpen your sense of hearing.

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How audiobooks can sharpen your hearing

Love books? If you've got hearing loss, listening to audiobooks is a form of auditory therapy that can help sharpen your sense of hearing.

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Hearing loss statistics at a glance

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The latest hearing loss and hearing aid facts and statistics among hearing impaired Americans, including kids, older adults, veterans and more.

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Hearing loss statistics at a glance

The latest hearing loss and hearing aid facts and statistics among hearing impaired Americans, including kids, older adults, veterans and more.

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Tinnitus spikes: solving a difficult problem

Illustration explaining the various triggers for tinnitus spikes.

Tinnitus spikes can be one of the most frustrating experiences of your life. Learn why they happen and how to get a handle on them from a tinnitus coach.

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Tinnitus spikes: solving a difficult problem

Tinnitus spikes can be one of the most frustrating experiences of your life. Learn why they happen and how to get a handle on them from a tinnitus coach.

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How to talk to your parents about hearing aids

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If you need to tell your parents it's time to get hearing aids, there are right and wrong ways to approach this difficult conversation. Here are some tips for success.

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How to talk to your parents about hearing aids

If you need to tell your parents it's time to get hearing aids, there are right and wrong ways to approach this difficult conversation. Here are some tips for success.

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Infections linked to hearing loss

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From adenovirus to Zika virus, many infections can trigger hearing loss and ear ringing.

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Infections linked to hearing loss

From adenovirus to Zika virus, many infections can trigger hearing loss and ear ringing.

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