Sunday, November 22, 2009

Losing Your Voice

When I was in the sixth grade, I went to camp with all the other little sixth graders. I had been looking forward to this for awhile, and it would have been a really great experience had I not lost my voice. The whole time I was there, my voice was no louder than a very low whisper. I figured that it was the altitude (it was at Big Bear), because when I returned home, my voice was back.

Thinking upon it now, I know I had Laryngitis. This is when your voice box and all the stuff around it get irritated and swell. When you have Laryngitis, you voice can become deep, hoarse and scratchy, barely louder than a whisper, or you may lose your voice completely. In adults, it is very rare for it to be serious. However, it can pose a huge problem for small children.

I have a site listed here on the causes, symptoms, and solutions to your voice loss that I would try to summarize, but I would probably plagiarize trying (and that's bad).

http://home.earthlink.net/~anitaastrologer/voice.htm

I found the site to be very helpful

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