5 Lifestyle Habits To Keep Your Ear, Nose and Throat Healthy
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important for overall well-being, and it includes taking care of our ear, nose, and throat (ENT) health. Our ears, nose, and throat play crucial roles in our daily lives, and adopting certain habits can help keep them in good shape. In this article, Dr. Shama describes in detail about lifestyle habits that can help us maintain a healthy ear, nose, and throat.5 Healthy Habits for healthy ears1. Do not poke your ears with some metal objects to clean wax or even use Qtips /earbuds. It can cause trauma to the EAC and ear drum, it can push the wax behind.2. Nowadays everyone uses earbuds, earplugs or headphones for listening to the music,which is not healthy for your ears. Its advisable not to use much of these, as they cancause damage to your ears and give you hearing loss.3. Keep your ear dry. Do not pour water or wash your ears. Your ears can cleanthemselves on their own. No moisture is good for the ears.4. Get your ears and hearing checked every yearly from an ENT surgeon.5. Keep your ears safe by not exposing your ears to loud sounds and if you are exposed toloud sounds as a part of your profession you must use proper ear protection devices.5 healthy habits for your throat1. Do not expose yourself to extreme cold weather. Use protection around your neck like amuffler.2. Do not scream, talk loudly or talk continuously. Like every other part of your body, vocalfolds or your voice box also needs rest so please give it some rest. If not you will haveissues related to quality of your voice, inability to speak, fatigability.3. Be careful and watchful of what you eat. Eating oily, fried and cold food can affect yourthroat. Eating these foods will actually cause acid reflux and affect your throat withburning sensation, dry cough and sometimes also a change of voice.4. Vocal warmups and vocal naps are both essential for a professional voice user like asinger or a teacher. This is to keep your voice healthy.5. Use a humidifier at home if you are in a dry climate. This helps avoid dryness of thethroat and thereby all the discomfort that happens due to dry throat.5 healthy habits for Nose1. Breathing exercises are important generally for your overall health and also help you ingetting focussed2. No nose picking, that can lead to bleeds from the nose where in you will have to rush tothe hospital3. Lubricate the anterior area of your nose to avoid crusting4. Avoid exposure to lot of dust, smoke etc if you have a tendency of allergic cold. Usemasks whenever you are going out.5. Viral infections and allergies are common reasons for getting a cold. Do not takemedication on your own. keep yourself protected.By incorporating these lifestyle habits into your routine, you can promote the health of your ears, nose, and throat and enjoy a better quality of life. Remember, prevention is always better than cure when it comes to maintaining good ENT health.Disclaimer: The article is authored by By Dr Shama S Kovale, Consultant ENT, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Mumbai. Views expressed in the article are of the author.
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