Healthy choices are not always straight forward. We can oftentimes conquer our reluctance by reminding ourselves what is good for us. But what if some of the things you’ve been doing for your health are harming your hearing? It’s more likely than you’d suspect.

Your Hygiene Routine

You care about the way you look to people when out and about. Combing your hair, brushing your teeth, and often cleaning your ears is, for most, a typical practice.

It can be aggravating when a small trickle of earwax builds up with time. In spite of earwax having numerous important purposes in your ear, it does have to be taken out from time to time. There are some procedures of eliminating earwax which can be hazardous.

Cotton swabs are depicted as the tool-of-choice for earwax elimination, but if you’re doing this, you need to quit right now. Removing your earwax with a cotton swab can cause irreversible damage to your ears and hearing. The better choice would be to contact a hearing expert for help. Getting rid of Earwax is a normal solution for them.

Your Workout Routine

The best way to look healthy and feel good is to stay in shape. Relaxing your muscles, getting the blood flowing, losing weight, and clearing your mind, are all benefits of working out. The problem is people don’t always conduct their workouts properly.

It’s becoming more fashionable to do stamina testing, high impact workouts. Exercises intended to build muscle may actually stress your ears. You might not even notice it at first, but that strain can cause pressure to build up in your ears. Balance and hearing problems can be the result.

This doesn’t mean quitting your workouts is the right answer. You just need to make certain you’re doing it right. Don’t hold your breath and avoid straining when you’re at the gym. Discontinue when you have come to your limit.

Your Prospering Career

Strain goes with a successful career. While working hard to achieve career accomplishment is great, the high levels of strain can cause health problems.

Stress has been known to cause weight gain, impaired thinking, and muscle pain, but did you know it can also cause hearing loss? Stress itself isn’t the issue; it’s that stress causes poor blood circulation. Poor circulation means that important parts of your body, like the delicate hairs in your ears, don’t get the supply of blood and oxygen they need. When the hairs in your ear die, they won’t grow back. Why are these little hairs important? Your brain uses them to hear. In other words, without having those hairs, you can not hear.

Your career doesn’t have to cost you your hearing though. Finding ways of lowering strain can help blood flow. If you’re finding yourself stressed out, take a break. Reading or watching something funny is helpful. Stress can be naturally relieved with humor.

Enjoying the Arts

Being exposed to the arts is definitely good for your mind. But different forms of art have different levels of impact on hearing.

The volume of movies and live music is often much louder than you think. While enjoying our favorite art form we we usually don’t worry about whether it is harming our hearing. The sad truth is, it very well may be.

This is simply solved. If you’re planning to attend a potentially loud event, grab some ear defense. While you wouldn’t wear large earmuffs at an opera, you could use small discreet in-ear noise reduction devices instead.

As usual the best protection is being prepared and informed. Schedule a hearing test with a professional if you think you may have already experienced hearing damage from a high volume activity. Only then will you know for certain.