Use of contact lenses has now come to stay as more and more people, who have to wear glasses, prefer to use contact lenses, the use of which has its own advantages and disadvantages. Since sale of contact lenses yields more money, the opticians and doctors advise their patients to use contact lenses, instead of spectacles.
Eye Care: How to Relieve Tired Eyes
Continuous use of eyes at a stretch, tires them and put extra pressure thereon. It is more common in artisans like fine needle workers, embroiderers, watch repairers, goldsmiths, readers, print composers, T.V viewers, readers etc. There is no escape from using eyes at a stretch due to demands of some professions, but a little rest and relaxation will provide much needed comfort and rest to your eyes for which one can employ one or more of the methods suggested below.
Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Mumps (Viral Parotitis)
It is a contagious disease, contracted through droplet infection and has an incubation period of 2-3 weeks. Mostly affects children below 15 years. One episode is believed to give lifelong immunity.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – How to Cure Hoarseness of Throat?
Hoarseness is defined as roughness of voice resulting from variations of periodicity and/or intensity of consecutive sound waves.
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Eye Care: How to Test Your Eyes?
Always get your eyes tested by a doctor (particularly an eye specialist) and not by opticians who cannot judge whether you are suffering from any eye disorder. Following points may be kept in mind, before you approach an eye specialist:
Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Acute Sinusitis
Sinusitis may be of various types. Description of a few are given here under:
ACUTE MAXILLARY SINUSITIS
Aetiology : Most commonly, it is viral rhinitis which spreads to involve the sinus mucosa. This is followed by bacterial invasion.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Epistaxis
Bleeding from inside the nose is called epistaxis. It is fairly common and is seen in all age groups—children, adults and older people. It often presents as an emergency. Epistaxis is a sign and not a disease per se and an attempt should always be made to find any local or constitutional cause.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Allergic Rhinitis
It is an immunologic response of nasal mucosa to air-borne allergens and is characterised by watery nasal discharge, nasal obstruction, sneezing and itching in the nose. This may also be associated with symptoms of itching in the eyes, palate and pharynx. Two clinical types have been recognised:
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Conducting Hearing Loss and Its Management
Any disease process which interferes with the conduction of sound to reach cochlea causes conductive hearing loss. The lesion may lie in the external ear and tympanic membrane, middle ear or ossicles up to stapediovestibular joint.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Acute Suppurative Otitis Media
It is an acute inflammation of middle ear by pyogenic organisms. Here, middle ear implies middle ear cleft, i.e. eustachian tube, middle ear, attic, aditus, antrum and mastoid air cells.
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