Pacific Coast Ear Nose and Throat

Honored to be a featured physician with the Today Show online. How to stop nose bleeds! https://www.today.com//how-stop-nosebleed-fast-home-doctor

Are you blowing your nose properly? Excited to share an article from Men’s Health Magazine in which Dr. Rothholtz is featured! https://www.menshealth.com//a253224/how-to-blow-your-nose/

Why should one not use q-tips to clean the ears? It is a MAJOR cause of traumatic injury to the ear drum.

"The brain is really a wet, sloppy drum machine," "It's desperately seeking rhythms.(...) "Sound gets into our brains and processed so quickly that it shapes all other perceptions", says neuroscientist Seth Horowitz, Ph.D. "You hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than you see." Listening to NPR on the way to work this morning, I became intrigued with a story. Listening closely, I heard a familiar voice, and it was Dr. Seth Horowitz a colleague of mine from the hearing ...laboratory and Brown University many years ago. From researching in Providence, RI to living in New York at the inception of his company Neuropop where he was holding sound and light concerts that would manipulate how your brain would function (in a good way) to his fascinating book... it's incredible where sound, engineering, evolution and life can lead you! http://www.npr.org//how-sound-shaped-the-evolution-of-your

http://www.npr.org//diagnosing-a-sinus-infection-can-be-a- Antibiotics are frequently over-prescribed for sinus infections. An exceptional new guideline was released this week from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery for diagnosing sinusitis. While it is ok to allow your body to take care of sinusitis caused by a virus, please note that if you have any change in vision, worsening headaches, progressive fevers, facial swelling or change in mental status, you should seek medical help urgently.