Common and Rare Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders

Is something ailing your ears, nose, or throat? That's an ENT doctor's specialty. Learn about the various conditions that can affect these body parts.
Person on couch feeling nasal itchiness, touching nose
Nasal Pruritis: What Does It Mean When Your Nose Itches?
Healthcare provider checks child's tonsils and adenoids with a throat exam
Adenoids and Tonsils: Immune Health in Kids and Adults
Blood on tissue due to hemoptysis
Coughing Up Blood (Hemoptysis)
Woman feeling pain from a canker sore on her tonsil
Identifying and Treating a Canker Sore on Your Tonsil
Sick woman with sore throat and tea
10 Home Remedies for Strep Throat
Parent takes child's temperature to check for fever with sore throat
Can You Have Strep Throat Without a Fever?
Doctor examines a child's ear
Why Ear Infections May Cause Temporary Hearing Loss
Mother checks child's temperature after treatment for strep throat
How Long Does Strep Throat Last?
Child with strep throat visits healthcare provider with parent
Tips to Prevent the Spread of Strep Throat
Fungal Sinusitis
What Is Fungal Sinusitis?
Girl at the reception of the therapist tries food, and the health worker analyzes test. Covid19 symptoms. Protective mask, goggles and gloves. Patient complains to the doctor about the loss of taste.
What Is Ageusia?
Doctor examining patient's jaw in hospital - stock photo
What Is TMJ Headache?
Woman with tight jaw
Tight Jaw Muscles: Causes and Treatment
Woman touching ear
Can Allergies Cause Tinnitus?
Close-up of a white person's ear, which is reddened
What Causes Staph Infections in the Ear and How to Treat Them
A phone on a surface with 911 being called (When to See a Healthcare Provider About Throat Tightness)
Tightness in Throat: Causes and Treatment
Oral Candidiasis or Oral thrush (Candida albicans), yeast infection on the human tongue close up
8 Home Remedies to Treat Oral Thrush
woman with sinus infection
Antibiotics for Sinus Infection
woman with mouth infection
Types of Mouth Infections and How to Treat Them
woman sticking tongue out
10 Tongue Diseases and Conditions
Healthcare worker checking man's throat
What Is Oropharyngeal Dysphagia?
Man holding throat
Throat Cancer: Signs and Symptoms
Woman holding throat
What Is Dysphonia?
Ludwig's Angina
An Overview of Ludwig's Angina
Tongue examination
Overview of Transient Lingual Papillitis (Lie Bumps)
Man with a sore throat.
What Is a Sore Throat?
Boy being examined by a doctor for a sore throat.
Symptoms of Sore Throat
Little girl having her throat examined.
Causes and Risk Factors of Sore Throat
strep throat causes risk factors
What Is Strep Throat?
Asian sick little girl lying in bed with a high fever
Frequent and Rare Strep Throat Symptoms
Brave little girl opens wide for throat swab at doctor
Causes and Risk Factors of Strep Throat
Woman with strep throat consulting doctor
How Strep Throat Is Treated
Doctor examining young girl
Difficulty Breathing and Intercostal Retracting
Itchy Nose
Causes of Itchy Eyes, Nose, Throat, and Skin
Chest x-ray
Lower Respiratory Infections
A woman holding her ear in pain
Understanding Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence
Girl drinking water
How Hiccups Are Treated
A tongue sticking out of a mouth
What Causes a Swollen Tongue?
doctor examining woman's ear
Causes and Treatment for Ear Drainage
Female doctor examining an older patient's throat
Sialadentitis: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
3D illustration of Larynx Trachea Bronchi
What Is Tracheal Stenosis?
Woman touching her neck
Reasons Why It Might Be Hard to Swallow
woman suffering from toothache, tooth decay or sensitivity, holding face- stock photo
What Is Lockjaw?
Man with sinus problem in his home
What Is Concha Bullosa?
woman touching sore throat
What Causes Chronic Tonsillitis?
Tonsil cross-section showing crypts
What to Do About Cryptic Tonsils
Deaf and blind couple with a service dog.
Usher Syndrome: Vision, Hearing, and Balance Disorder
Senior woman holding chest in pain
Hypercontractile Peristalsis or Jackhammer Esophagus
A father with his daughter who has a cleft lip
What Is Stickler Syndrome?
Cleft Palate
Overview of Pierre Robin Sequence
Close-Up Of Woman Rubbing Nose Against White Background
Understanding Your Nasal Turbinates
Woman in bed with hand on her face in pain
Burning Mouth Syndrome Symptoms and Treatment
an older man coughing into a napkin
What Is Phlegm?
Symptoms of Swimmer's Ear
a woman balancing on a rail
What Causes Balance Problems
Acid reflux due to improper closure of sphincter.
Achalasia Is a Motility Disorder of the Esophagus
Man sleeping in his bed
Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure (EPAP)
Woman with earache
Ruptured Ear Drum Causes
A woman talking to her doctor about her throat pain
What Is an Esophagus Tear?
Woman experiencing heartburn.
Causes of Eosinophilic Esophagitis