A-Z of ear health and hearing
Find out all about ear health, hearing loss, and how to protect your hearing, including ear wax, ear drums and conditions affecting your ears.
Children and hearing aid care
Wearing a hearing aid when it is not working properly can be worse than not wearing the aid at all.
Ear anatomy
View this anatomical diagram of your ear. See important structures, such as the eardrum, pinna, cochlea, stapes, stirrup, malleus, incus and semicircular canals.
Ear problems
Common ear problems include otitis media, glue ear, ear wax and swimmer's ear.
Ear problems: treatment
A number of different pharmacy medicines are available to help soften earwax, as well as to treat ear problems such as swimmer’s ear and otitis media.
Eardrum perforation
Eardrum perforation can be caused by infection, a blow to the ear, injury from an object inserted in the ear, or exposure to a sudden loud noise.
Ears: how to care for your ears
Learn how to care for and protect your ears. Read about cleaning your ears, protecting your ears from noise, water, ear infection and diseases and about hearing tests.
Earwax
Wax in the ears is quite harmless and a normal part of the body's self-protection mechanism.
Hearing Awareness Week
Hearing Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of hearing loss, deafness and chronic ear disorders to increase acceptance and accommodations for affected people.
Hearing impairment and schoolchildren
Hearing impairments affect a child's listening ability and can therefore often interfere with their educational and social development.
Hearing loss a signal for dementia
Older adults with hearing loss may be up to 5 times more likely to develop dementia than people with normal hearing, researchers have found.
Hearing loss and age (presbycusis)
As we get older, our hearing is more than likely to deteriorate. When and how how quickly this happens depends on various factors.
Hearing loss and noise
The louder the sound and the longer the time of exposure, the greater the damage to the delicate hearing nerves.
Hearing loss causes
A hearing loss can result if there is a problem at any point in the hearing pathway in the outer, middle or inner ears, or in the complex auditory nerve pathway up to the brain.
Hearing loss explained
It is a common belief that hearing impaired people can't hear sounds loudly enough, but the problem is more complicated than that.
Hearing problems
About one-third of people aged between 65 and 74 have hearing problems.
Hearing problems in children
Poor hearing is a serious problem for children, affecting the ability to speak, read and be educated.
Hearing protectors
It is a well-known fact that excessive noise can cause permanent damage to hearing. The use of personal protective equipment, such as earmuffs and earplugs, has a significant place in the management of the noise exposure of individuals.
Hearing tests and audiograms
Your audiogram is a picture of your hearing. It indicates how much your hearing varies from normal and, if there is a hearing loss, where the problem might be located in the hearing pathway.
Hearing: how your ears work
Your ears are very complicated parts of your body. No one completely understands how they work.
Meniere's disease
Those suffering from Meniere's disease experience dizziness, increasing deafness and tinnitus.
Middle ear infection and grommets
Infection of the middle ear is the most common cause of temporary hearing loss in children.
Otitis media in children
Otitis media (middle ear infection) is a common childhood illness, and is the most common reason for children being prescribed antibiotics.
Swimmer's ear (otitis externa)
Infection of the lining to the ear canal is a condition known as otitis externa or `swimmer`s ear`. Find out the symptoms, causes and treatment of swimmer's ear.
Tinnitus: what is it?
Tinnitus is a physical condition experienced as noises or ringing in the ears or head.
Tinnitus: what should you do?
Some audiologists run specialist tinnitus clinics to help you manage your tinnitus.
Tinnitus: when the ringing won't stop
Tinnitus can be described as the sensation of sound in ear(s) or head not due to an external source.
Vertigo
Vertigo is a term used to describe a false sensation of movement or spinning.
Wearing a hearing aid when it is not working properly can be worse than not wearing the aid at all.
Ear anatomy
View this anatomical diagram of your ear. See important structures, such as the eardrum, pinna, cochlea, stapes, stirrup, malleus, incus and semicircular canals.
Ear problems
Common ear problems include otitis media, glue ear, ear wax and swimmer's ear.
Ear problems: treatment
A number of different pharmacy medicines are available to help soften earwax, as well as to treat ear problems such as swimmer’s ear and otitis media.
Eardrum perforation
Eardrum perforation can be caused by infection, a blow to the ear, injury from an object inserted in the ear, or exposure to a sudden loud noise.
Ears: how to care for your ears
Learn how to care for and protect your ears. Read about cleaning your ears, protecting your ears from noise, water, ear infection and diseases and about hearing tests.
Earwax
Wax in the ears is quite harmless and a normal part of the body's self-protection mechanism.
Hearing Awareness Week
Hearing Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of hearing loss, deafness and chronic ear disorders to increase acceptance and accommodations for affected people.
Hearing impairment and schoolchildren
Hearing impairments affect a child's listening ability and can therefore often interfere with their educational and social development.
Hearing loss a signal for dementia
Older adults with hearing loss may be up to 5 times more likely to develop dementia than people with normal hearing, researchers have found.
Hearing loss and age (presbycusis)
As we get older, our hearing is more than likely to deteriorate. When and how how quickly this happens depends on various factors.
Hearing loss and noise
The louder the sound and the longer the time of exposure, the greater the damage to the delicate hearing nerves.
Hearing loss causes
A hearing loss can result if there is a problem at any point in the hearing pathway in the outer, middle or inner ears, or in the complex auditory nerve pathway up to the brain.
Hearing loss explained
It is a common belief that hearing impaired people can't hear sounds loudly enough, but the problem is more complicated than that.
Hearing problems
About one-third of people aged between 65 and 74 have hearing problems.
Hearing problems in children
Poor hearing is a serious problem for children, affecting the ability to speak, read and be educated.
Hearing protectors
It is a well-known fact that excessive noise can cause permanent damage to hearing. The use of personal protective equipment, such as earmuffs and earplugs, has a significant place in the management of the noise exposure of individuals.
Hearing tests and audiograms
Your audiogram is a picture of your hearing. It indicates how much your hearing varies from normal and, if there is a hearing loss, where the problem might be located in the hearing pathway.
Hearing: how your ears work
Your ears are very complicated parts of your body. No one completely understands how they work.
Meniere's disease
Those suffering from Meniere's disease experience dizziness, increasing deafness and tinnitus.
Middle ear infection and grommets
Infection of the middle ear is the most common cause of temporary hearing loss in children.
Otitis media in children
Otitis media (middle ear infection) is a common childhood illness, and is the most common reason for children being prescribed antibiotics.
Swimmer's ear (otitis externa)
Infection of the lining to the ear canal is a condition known as otitis externa or `swimmer`s ear`. Find out the symptoms, causes and treatment of swimmer's ear.
Tinnitus: what is it?
Tinnitus is a physical condition experienced as noises or ringing in the ears or head.
Tinnitus: what should you do?
Some audiologists run specialist tinnitus clinics to help you manage your tinnitus.
Tinnitus: when the ringing won't stop
Tinnitus can be described as the sensation of sound in ear(s) or head not due to an external source.
Vertigo
Vertigo is a term used to describe a false sensation of movement or spinning.
