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Parents have to take some crucial steps when their kids are learning how to swim. One of them is to fit their kids with some earplugs and a swimming headband to keep out the water. Kids are prone to ear infections and if left untreated these can lead to permanent damage. The best cure is prevention and earplugs provide an easy way to keep kids ears dry and healthy. For kids who already have ear tubes from previous ear infections earplugs and swimming headbands are essential to prevent further re infection and complications. To reduce the potential for a child...

Prevent Surfer's Ear With A Pair of ZENPLUGS For Surfers Surfer's ear is the closing over of the ear by bony outgrowths from the wall of the ear canal.  Most lifelong surfers will have some evidence of the condition which is caused by the cooling effect of wind and water on the ear and the mastoid bone; the hard lump behind your ear.  The bony outgrowths come from your skull, gradually closing over the ear resulting in progressive deafness over the course of years.  Deafness is a late sign of the condition, in the early stages hearing is usually preserved...

Ever wonder what sound levels you are exposed to through out the day and night? Now you can instantly get readings of ambient noise in your environment without expensive equipment using this free app from Alpine Hearing Protection. Download for free by following this link to itunes....    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alpine-musicsafecheck/id671579299?mt=8

How Effective Are Ear Plugs? Regardless of how good our ear plugs are purported to be, they never seem to block out all noise in its entirety, which can be confusing as we imagine that we only "hear" through our ears. Experiments however show that part of our hearing comes from vibrations captured by the bones around our ears and throughout our head, meaning that all noise does not enter through the ear canal, which is essentially the part of the body that ear plugs block. We can literally "feel" noise as it vibrates through our heads. Because of this,...

The Importance of Sleep The Many Reasons That We Need Sufficient Sleep Sleep is an important and an essential part of a person’s overall general well-being, yet getting enough sleep is a major problem for millions of people all over the world. Some people that have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep may be plagued with an untreated sleep disorder, but for many others, they just don’t think they “need” sleep. A lot of people think that they can survive on less than six hours of sleep, and they do so due to life. Maybe they are overworked, or choose...