Diagnosing Acoustic Neuromas
Sometimes tumors can grow on the auditory nerve from your ear to your brain. This causes unilateral hearing loss, dizziness, one-sided facial weakness, and tinnitus. An MRI scan is needed to confirm the diagnosis. If you have severe anxiety, you may consider the open MRI option.
Referral
An audiologist performs a battery of tests to help diagnose the cause of unilateral hearing loss. This will include an audiogram that determines the softest sounds that you hear in each ear along with speech discrimination testing. Acoustic reflexes measure how the nerve on each side function. Sometimes the audiologist will do vestibular testing or electrophysiological testing. If the audiologist suspects an acoustic neuroma, he or she will refer you to an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialist. The ENT then refers you for the MRI.
Testing
To prepare for the test, you will need to remove watches, jewelry, and underwire bras. … Continue Reading >>>
What Are the Benefits of Beetroot and How to Buy and Store it?
What are the Vitamins and Minerals in Beetroot?
Beetroot is related to sugar beet and has a high sugar content, as high as that of an apple, in fact. It also contains potassium, calcium, sulfur and chlorine along with a moderate amount of vitamin C and folic acid. The beetroot has been recognized as being good for the blood for many years, as many an old wives’ tale confirms. There is usually some truth in them and beetroot does contain iron which is essential for red blood formation.
In Europe and Russia, beetroot is used as a tonic and to build up resistance to infection. For centuries it has been known to aid the digestive system, especially the liver. It also has a long history in the treatment of cancer as it contains ant carcinogenic substances in the red coloring matter. Beetroot increases the cellular take-up of oxygen … Continue Reading >>>
Is Material Stuff More Important to You Than Your Health?
It seems strange that we make time and spend money on things to make ourselves happy and to be able to live our life in a more comfortable fashion yet often do not make allowances for time and resources to take care of our bodies. Houses, property, cars, overseas trips, new clothes and electronic ‘toys’ all seem so important in our modern day lives. But where does the health of our body fit in to all of this?
Most often nowhere and this is evident in the fact that six out of ten adults do not do enough proper exercise to keep themselves strong and therefore healthy. Most people do not fully understand how important the muscular system is of the human body which makes up roughly 50 percent of its weight. Muscle cells are metabolically highly active and their health dictates the overall health of their body.… Continue Reading >>>
How to Find the Nearest Gynecologist?
Many people don’t like going to the doctor and even more when it is a gynecologist examination. There isn’t anything dangerous that can happen, but the most common problem is exposing their private parts. Anyway, it is important to visit them from time to time to check if everything is okay. You might have a problem you don’t realize you have, so in order to prevent something bad from happening it is recommended to visit them once or twice a year.
There will always be good and bad doctors like at every type of job, so you should check them in advance and make a decision where to go. There’s no need to be uncomfortable when you can choose who can examine you. So, you can ask your friends for a recommendation and they can share their experience with you. You can probably find a great gynecologist clinic in your … Continue Reading >>>
Changes Life Takes You Through
Life is change. Sure, that seems like a simple sentence. But, indeed, it is the most complex sentence in existence in reality. Change happens once in life all the time that it happens, each time that it does happen. Nothing ever stays the same. That is the point of this article with a small twist: The only thing that does stay the same is the fact that time passes, and we all need to take the proper actions in relation to time and its capacity for change and progression, or we do miss everything.
As we can tell by concepts and realities of the past and future, time is not just an idle concept we can ignore. As the old saying goes, “remember death, remember change.” Sure, unless we take the proper actions, we are all doomed to changes we do not want. That is the total reality … Continue Reading >>>