Health Tips From the Best ENT Doctors in WNY

How to Protect Your Ears During a Flight | You may have packed your bags and booked your hotel, but no trip to the travel agency can teach you how to protect your ears during a flight. Everyone experiences ear discomfort on airplanes because of the rapid change in air pressure during ascent and descent. Thankfully, though, there are ways to, if not prevent the issue entirely, at least mitigate the pain.

Buffalo, NY natives know how to brave the tough winter weather, but they don’t always know how to control rough winter allergy symptoms.

If it seems like you’re asking your friends to repeat themselves more often than you used to, you might have clogged ears. Clogged ears aren’t usually a cause for concern, and there are a number of solutions accessible to you at home. However, if symptoms persist, you...

Winter’s here again in Buffalo, NY, and that means that it’s cold and flu season. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult to tell whether a bout of the sniffles means you’re suffering from your regular allergies or if you’ve finally caught that cold that’s been going around. However, if you don’t know which is which, you might end up taking the wrong treatment or over-medicating.

Epistaxis, a condition commonly referred to as nosebleeds, occurs at the vascular area within the nose, which can bleed profusely as a result of facial trauma. The nose’s arterioles (tiny blood vessels) are vulnerably positioned and thus can easily rupture.

Approximately 60 percent of people experience epistaxis at some point in their life. Only 6 percent of those who suffer with nosebleeds tend to seek medical treatment, and even fewer require hospitalization.

Though epistaxis can occur at any age, it mostly has a bimodal distribution, afflicting toddlers to children age 10, as well as adults over 50. There are two types of nosebleeds – those that stem from the front of the nose (anterior) which are most common, and those that stem from the back of the nose (posterior) which are less common and more severe in nature.

The septum is a thin wall made of cartilage and bone that separates the nasal cavity into two chambers and divides the airflow directing it to two directions. Occasionally, the septum will deviate to one side or the other, or both, and therefore block the airflow causing you congestion. Thankfully, a deviated septum and its correction are fairly common, so if you feel like your nasal cavity is constantly obstructed due to an abnormal septum, you are in good company.

Buffalonians know that the pollen count in Western New York is particularly high. When your symptoms are particularly bad, you can use over-the-counter antihistamines to keep the sniffles in check. Today, we’re going to review Zyrtec and Claritin–both non-prescription allergy medicine—to see how they compare, once and for all.

No one likes to suffer through allergies, but you should be able to manage your symptoms. If even short trips outdoors trigger allergy attacks, it may be time to see a specialist. Here’s when you should seek help from an allergy specialist in Buffalo, NY.

The medical world can be overwhelming. Sometimes you should eat to keep your strength up, and at other times you need to start on an empty stomach. How can patients keep track of all of these differences? Well, if you’re preparing for an ENT appointment in Buffalo,...

Sore throat killing you? Unfortunately, a sore throat is a common side effect of environmental allergies. Thankfully, allergy drugs aren’t your only option. Using ingredients you probably have on hand already, you can whip up a delicious pot of vegetable soup. Here’s our best recipe—from our Buffalo, NY clinic, to your kitchen.