Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Your voice is not healthy if it doesn’t sound right to you or others. The way the voice sounds is a clue, a symptom to an underlying problem which can be due to many causes; including vocal misuse, smoking, infection, cancer or neurologic (nerve) problems. Abnormal changes in the
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD We all want a pleasant voice. Hoarseness is an abnormal, unpleasant change in the quality of the voice. It‘s a symptom, not a disease. It can affect the clarity, loudness and/or vocal effort of the individual. It’s a signal of an underlying problem that makes it more difficult to communicate with
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Sudden Hearing Loss (SHL) is an alarming medical emergency that is often a medical mystery. It’s devastating to patients and demoralizing for physicians. For decades ENT specialists and researchers have tried to untangle the problem of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (Sudden SNHL) with limited success. The cause of
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board One of the things we take for granted is a good voice, one that is strong, easily understood and of good quality. We have a problem when a voice disorder interferes with our ability to communicate personally, with family or friends – or professionally, to earn a living. The
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board In a few seconds, with remarkable confidence, one can tell the sex of a person speaking on the telephone or radio. We can recognize almost immediately the voice of our favorite artist who is singing our favorite song. And in the middle of the night, a mother can tell
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Most people would agree that the flu is more troublesome than a cold. Influenza (flu) is a contagious viral infection that targets your nose, throat, larynx and lungs. Flu virus droplets spread through the air when people sneeze, talk or cough. You can also contract the virus by touching
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board In 2011, two Louisiana residents died after using a neti pot and tap water. Their deaths were caused by the “brain eating” amoeba N. fowleri. Once the amoeba enters the nose, it travels to the brain and this bacterial infection is almost always fatal. These residents had symptoms similar
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board A cough is a protective reflex that works to clear mucus and foreign matter from the back of the throat, the voice box, windpipe and lungs. Although the cough reflex is there to help us — and often the cough is benign — the sound of a cough can be frightening
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Our body has an early warning system, better than any government’s defense department. Our challenge is to decipher the signals our body transmits to us and to act on this intelligence to remain healthy. We need to decide: “Is this cough a serious problem?” “Is the cough accompanied by
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDAdvisory Board Member Some home remedies have proven to be less costly and work better than medications for that nagging cough. A cough that lingers is an annoyance to you and can be to those around you — “Why doesn’t he do something about that cough?” Below are ten things you can
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