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No. However, tinnitus is a frequent symptom in people who have hearing loss and there are hereditary forms of hearing loss. Thus, someone with a hereditary form of hearing loss is more likely to also have tinnitus.

No. Ringing is not considered normal. However, it is very common especially as people get older. The most common reason for ringing in the ears (called tinnitus) is hearing loss and naturally, most people lose hearing as they get older so tinnitus becomes more frequent as people age. When your ENT evaluates someone with ringing in the ears, a hearing test called an audiogram is almost always performed to look for the underlying cause and to determine if additional evaluation, such as with an MRI, may be needed.

Yes. Cochlear implants are used in children who are born deaf or lose their hearing due to illness. This allows the child to grow up with hearing and typically attend regular school with children without hearing loss. Early identification of deafness is crucial. Otherwise, the part of the brain responsible for hearing never develops. Adults who were born deaf and have never had hearing do not benefit from cochlear implants.

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Yes. The thyroid is a gland in the neck that produces a hormone called thyroid hormone. Evaluating a patient's thyroid hormone levels and treating conditions of the thyroid that may result in too much or too little thyroid hormone levels is usually done by primary care physicians and specialists called endocrinologists rather than ENT doctors. However, if there is a lump or mass in the thyroid gland, ENT doctors become involved. This may include performing a biopsy (sample) of the lump as well as removing it if surgery is needed.

Of course, a lot depends on what didn't turn out very well with the first nose job (rhinoplasty). If a small bump on the nose or visible irregularity is present, this could be a relatively minor procedure. However, if too much of the structural cartilage and/or bone was originally removed from the nose then correcting the problem can be more technically complicated and may require additional specialized measures such as bone or cartilage grafting.

This is a very common question and an important one. There are some major differences that usually make this easy to figure out. The first is time and duration. Allergy symptoms tend to continue for long periods of time. For some people, this can be throughout the year. For others, it may be certain seasons. For a head cold, from the start of your symptoms to complete resolution, we are talking about 2 weeks total duration. The next important difference is symptoms. Often times, the initial symptom of a head cold is a sore throat which is not a symptom of allergies and would be a tip-off you have a cold, not allergies. The most common sequence of head cold symptoms start with mild malaise (not feeling well) followed by sore, scratchy throat. Your sore throat gradually gets better after a few days but now your nose begins to run. Very thin and watery at first but becoming thicker, cloudy and minimally off-color by the end of the cold 10 days later. The nose, which is open initially, becomes more and more congested (blocked up) towards the end of the cold before becoming normal after about 10-14 days. Some colds prominently feature a cough, others don't but allergies, especially with asthma, can also include a cough so this would not help you tell between a cold and allergies.

Yes. Sublingual (under the tongue) allergy drops may be an alternative to traditional allergy shots for some patients. However, this treatment is limited in terms of what allergies it can treat compared with traditional shots. Also, most insurance plans do not cover this therapy making it an out-of-pocket expense and there is much less data on this type of allergy treatment compared with shots.

No. Typical allergy shots (called immunotherapy) are performed for several years. Once the body becomes "immune" to the allergies being treated, the shots can be stopped. The benefits then can last for many years after that.

This is not necessarily possible. Sometimes, the tendency to develop allergies is genetically predetermined. However, there are ways to deal with allergies that can help your treatment. This can include staying indoors on windy days, keeping windows in the car and home closed, bare floors in the home rather than carpets and keeping pets out of the bedroom if you are allergic to them. In children at risk for the development of peanut allergy, supervised early exposure to peanuts may prevent peanut allergy later on. This may also be true for pet allergy but it is recommended any exposure strategy be undertaken with the guidance of an allergist and in some cases, the exposure may be done in the doctor's office.

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