Did you know that many people suffer from difficulty trying to pop their ears? When do you need to equalise your ear pressures? It’s usually during a flight, especially during landing. The pressure building up behind your eardrums increases tremendously. This pushes on your delicate eardrums to cause severe earache with risk of eardrum rupture. CAN I FLY IF I AM SUFFERING…
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Did you know that many children suffer ear, nose and throat problems for ages before they finally see a Children’s ENT specialist? Some children may have had hearing loss which has gone undetected. The hearing loss is discovered at school during a hearing screening test. Other children may suffer a persistent blocked runny nose and breathe through their mouth. Their parents don’t…
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So what do you do if you accidentally fracture your nose in Singapore? As an ENT specialist in Singapore, we see a few nasal injury cases every month. Both children and adults may suffer possible nasal fractures after trauma. Sometimes, the nasal fractures happen after a traumatic fight or argument. More often, nasal fractures occur after an accidental fall. We also see…
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Are you suffering from a persistently blocked nose and snoring, causing difficulty breathing? Many people have a frequently or persistently blocked nose and snoring. The don’t even realise that they are depending on their mouths to breathe. Do you know that mouth-breathing is abnormal? You only use your mouth to breathe if your nose feels blocked! Mouth-breathing usually means that your nasal…
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Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) problems in children are pretty common in Singapore, as well as all over the world! So what common ENT conditions trouble our little ones? At ENTcare specialist clinic in Singapore, many kids present to us with blocked nose, persistent coughing and difficulty breathing. This can occur both during the daytime and at night when asleep. Noisy breathing,…
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Did you know that the house dust mite is the Number one cause of nasal and skin allergies in Singapore? House dust mite (HDM) allergy can trigger off flare-ups of allergic rhinitis and eczema skin issues. It can also trigger an asthma attack. You can’t get rid of house dust mite problems just by cleaning vigorously away. The three species of house…
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Snoring is extremely common and often an anti-social habit that bothers your sleep partner, rather than you. But did you know snoring means there is a significant degree of airway obstruction going on when you are asleep? It’s not just a quality of life issue here that we are talking about. At ENTcare Clinic in Singapore, many snoring patients come to seek…
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Do you have a recurrent sore throat or a persistent itchy throat in Singapore? Itchy sore throat symptoms can really affect your quality of life, making it difficult to sleep at night or concentrate on your work in the daytime. In fact, it is a downright irritating problem for many people! They don’t realise that actually, itchy throat and sore throats can…
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Do you know that poor sleep quality can lead to poor health and increased risk of early dementia? We now know how important good sleep is to keep us in great physical health. Good sleep helps to prevent us from falling ill and maintain good mental fitness. As a busy ENT specialist in Singapore, I see many patients with poor sleep, snoring…
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Have you lost your sense of smell? Hyposmia is the loss of sense of smell and it may happen because of many reasons, ranging from the common cold or flu, to sinus infections and nasal tumours. At our ENT specialist clinics in Singapore, we see many patients who have lost their sense of smell because of nasal allergy issues, nasal polyps and…
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