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Hearing Suggestions

· Laterality: Correcting Ear Dominance

· Ear Congestion

· Ear Plugs

· Low Frequency Noise

· Mozart Effect

· PC Noise

· Sound Sensitivity

· Hyperacusis

Ear Congestion

Causes

Dry Eye Syndrome: Related Conditions
"Common causes: blockage of ear tube (eustachian tube) during nose allergies, a cold or airplane/mountain travel."

St Louis Children's Hospital: Ear Congestion

"The most common cause of ear congestion is fluid in the middle ear due to intermittent eustachian tube blockage by a cold, hay fever, or over-vigorous nose blowing. Sudden increases in barometric pressure, which occur in descent from mountain driving or airplane travel, also cause ear congestion."

Children's Hospital of Orange County: Ear Congestion

Ear Plugs

General Information

Some of the articles on the Laterality and Mozart Effect pages may suggest that you wear ear plugs.

The article: Rules of Thumb for Everyday Hearing Protection contains information about the different kinds of ear plugs, and how to properly insert them.

Anxiety

"It is not uncommon to have a closed-in feeling when we have plugs in our ears. Initially this can create some anxiety, but after using them many times you will become accustomed to the feeling."

Hyperacusis Network: Supplement

Things to Avoid

Chronically Plugging one Ear

Chronically plugging one ear can permanently impair the ability to be focus on one sound amid many interfering sounds (the 'cocktail party effect'), and the ability to determine the specific location of a sound source (sound localization).

"Auditory spatial acuity [used in sound localization] and binaural unmasking (a measureof the spatial contribution to the 'cocktail party effect') arepermanently impaired by chronically plugging one ear, both ininfancy but especially in adulthood."

PNAS Online: Plasticity in the Neural Coding of Auditory Space in the Mammalian Brain

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