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Spring allergies for some are “just” a bearable nuisance, for others a real life sentence. One thing is certain, allergies nowadays are an increasingly common plague, to the point of ...

The common cold, also known as viral rhinosinusitis, is typically caused by a pathogen of viral origin that finds a favorable environmental situation for its proliferation in the nose and sinuses, ...

Cerumen is a mixture of substances produced by ceruminous glands in the ear canal to defend it from external agents, such as dust, lint and dirt, dead skin consisting mainly of keratin and oily ...

Nowadays, life is increasingly hectic, made up of rushing, commitments, deadlines and even constant sound chatter that makes silence something increasingly rare. Yet even science has now shown how ...

When one is anxious, one is prone to upper-chest breathing and increased respiratory rate, causing a state of hyperventilation and thus decreased oxygenation in the blood; this causes many of the ...

Auriculotherapy originated in France in 1950 by Paul Nogier, a physician who was also interested in osteopathy and Chinese medicine. After extensive studies, he mapped all the organs and skeletal ...

Let’s think about how tiring our days become when we suffer from a trivial cold: our minds are clouded, we struggle to concentrate, we feel our muscles are weighed down, and we feel a general ...

Sinusitis, or inflammation of the sinuses, is one of the topics in otolaryngology about which the most urban legends circulate. All it takes is a severe cold and a headache to point to sinusitis as ...

Autumn arrives and they arrive on time, too: the so-called seasonal ailments. Sore throats, coughs, and colds are the unwelcome guests one would like to avoid during this period, but often with poor ...