Children & Ear Health
Discharge from the Ear or 'Otorrhea'
Normally occurring in childhood, otorrhea literally means discharge from the ear and is normally a term given to drainage of the outer and middle ear. The re...
Excess Wax
Earwax is a naturally formed substance found within the ear of everybody. It serves as a protective guard shielding our ears from infections, fluids and germ...
Football Clubs for the Deaf
Hundreds of thousands of keen football fans follow their chosen team every Saturday during the football season, but how many of them know that there is a str...
Genetic Testing and Deafness
Many types of deafness and hearing loss have nothing to do with genetics. Anyone can sustain hearing loss after being exposed to an extremely loud noise, bec...
Hearing Problems in Children Due to CMV Infection
Most people know that some infections are dangerous for pregnant women – German measles and toxoplasmosis, for example. Both infections, one viral and one...
Hearing Tests for Newborn Babies
Hearing tests for the newborn are a fairly recent development in the screening services offered to new babies. They were introduced as a way of detecting any...
Is There a Vaccine to Reduce Ear Infections?
Every parent will understand the agony of seeing the pain experienced by children who suffer from an ear infection. Due to their developing immune systems, t...
Is There Such a Thing as a Lazy Ear?
The phenomenon of a lazy eye is well known; a small percentage of children either have this problem at birth, or they develop it in the first few months of l...
Measles, German Measles and Deafness
If children or adults catch measles, mumps or German measles, complications of all three infections can cause hearing loss. Only German measles can be passed...
Objects In The Ear
To discover a foreign body or ‘object’ in the ear can cause a lot of panic for the sufferer or the parent, but it should be remembered that it is actuall...
Pneumococcal Meningitis and Deafness
Meningitis is a serious infection of the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain. When these become infected with bacteria or viruses, the membrane b...
Prominent Ears: How They Can Affect Children
Children of all generations seem to be cruel to each other and having prominent ears is a common reason for bullying and name calling at school. ‘Bat ears�...
The Connection Between Hearing and Speech
Hearing and speech are intimately connected. Someone who is born profoundly deaf has great difficulty learning to speak. It is only by listening to other peo...
Use of Antibiotics in Children's Ear Infections
Recent research suggests that the use of antibiotics as a treatment for the common ear infections seen in many young children might not prove to have any ben...
What is Glue Ear?
Glue ear is a condition that is very common in childhood, affecting almost three quarters of all children at some point. Though it is common in children, glu...
What Types of Congenital Hearing Problems Are There?
Congenital hearing problems are those that are present in a baby right from the time that it is born. They develop either due to a genetic factor that is pas...