“Mommy, my ear hurts.” Those simple cries from your child could be a number of things…. The kids were out playing and roughhousing when one scratched one side of his head on a tiny branch in the grass. You take a look, but there are no visible signs of a scrape. You ask, “Baby, is […]
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New Sublingual Allergy Tablets
Exciting news from the FDA regarding sublingual allergy tablets! The FDA recently approved three allergy sublingual immunotherapy tablets. On April 17, the FDA approved Merck’s RAGWITEK™ sublingual allergy tablet for ragweed pollen. This comes just days after the approval of the grass sublingual allergy tablets GRASTEK® (also Merck), and ORALAIR® (Greer). While it will be some time before […]
Got a Sore Throat?
In a majority of sore throat cases, the problem comes-and-goes when you’re getting a cold or the flu. Sure, there are serious things which may happen if you get a sore throat with great frequency. If that’s the case, the ENT Center of Austin can diagnose this regular, repeated occurrence and offer help. However, for […]
Piercing Your Nose – Warnings Ahead
Getting a hole punched in your nose is not something you want to do when you’re under the influence. If you hear anyone in the background slobber, “Let’s drive to Key West!” before getting a beak piercing, probably should stop bending elbows for the night, call a cab and go home. For those sober folks, […]
Weight Gain After a Tonsillectomy
There’s something that happens to kids under the age of 6 after they get their tonsils removed. You may have noticed it personally, but children after surgery, tend to end up gaining weight. This weight gaining experience doesn’t happen in older patients, rather just those youthful folks we mentioned at the top. A group of […]
