Many swimmers hesitate to use earplugs because they worry about three things:
Will I still hear my coach or other swimmers?
Will earplugs affect my balance in the water?
Will they slow me down or hurt my performance?
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Content & Digital Marketing Manager at BOLLSEN at Bollsen
Timotej Prosenc is the Marketing Manager at BOLLSEN Hearing Protection, where he leads the company’s SEO strategy, content creation, and email marketing initiatives. With a background in journalism and sales, Timotej brings both storytelling skills and commercial insight to BOLLSEN’s mission of promoting healthier hearing.
His connection to hearing protection stems from personal experience with sound sensitivity during live events and work in noisy environments, an issue that made him more aware of the long-term risks of unmanaged noise exposure. Today, as both a communicator and a user of BOLLSEN products, he is passionate about raising awareness around the importance of proactive hearing care.
At BOLLSEN, he develops data-driven marketing campaigns, writes SEO-focused articles, and manages communication channels that connect customers with practical knowledge about hearing protection. His work ensures that BOLLSEN’s message—prioritizing health, performance, and sustainability reaches a global audience in an engaging and trustworthy way.
Passionate about writing since childhood, Timotej combines creativity with a strong analytical approach, continuously testing new ideas in digital marketing, performance advertising, and social media. He believes in learning through innovation and collaboration, balancing leadership with openness to new perspectives.
Beyond his professional role, Timotej is committed to a healthy lifestyle and finds inspiration in fitness, sports, and quality time with friends. His personal passion for well-being aligns with BOLLSEN’s core values, making his work not only a career but also a cause he deeply believes in.
His connection to hearing protection stems from personal experience with sound sensitivity during live events and work in noisy environments, an issue that made him more aware of the long-term risks of unmanaged noise exposure. Today, as both a communicator and a user of BOLLSEN products, he is passionate about raising awareness around the importance of proactive hearing care.
At BOLLSEN, he develops data-driven marketing campaigns, writes SEO-focused articles, and manages communication channels that connect customers with practical knowledge about hearing protection. His work ensures that BOLLSEN’s message—prioritizing health, performance, and sustainability reaches a global audience in an engaging and trustworthy way.
Passionate about writing since childhood, Timotej combines creativity with a strong analytical approach, continuously testing new ideas in digital marketing, performance advertising, and social media. He believes in learning through innovation and collaboration, balancing leadership with openness to new perspectives.
Beyond his professional role, Timotej is committed to a healthy lifestyle and finds inspiration in fitness, sports, and quality time with friends. His personal passion for well-being aligns with BOLLSEN’s core values, making his work not only a career but also a cause he deeply believes in.
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Earplugs for kids are safe when the type, size and supervision match the child’s age and ear anatomy. Pediatric audiology guidance, product specifications for child‑sized earplugs, and parental safety recommendations all agree on one core principle: children have smaller and more sensitive ear canals, so hearing protection must be adapted rather than downsized from adult products.
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Swimmer’s ear does not happen just because you swim a lot. It happens when water stays inside your ear canal for too long. The skin inside your ear gets soft, your natural earwax gets washed away, and germs can grow. This is why swimming earplugs are so helpful. When you use silicone swim earplugs the right way, they can greatly lower your chances of getting swimmer’s ear.
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When your eardrum is perforated, the thin membrane between the ear canal and the middle ear is torn, and that small change has a big effect on how your ear reacts to water, pressure, and sound. Because this membrane normally protects the middle ear from the outside world, choosing ear protection becomes not just a comfort choice, but a medical one.
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Ear tubes (also called grommets or tympanostomy tubes) are one of the most common ENT procedures especially for children, but also for adults who struggle with recurrent ear infections or persistent fluid behind the eardrum.
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At Bollsen Hearing Protection, we build our educational content and product guidance on real-world noise exposure data, not assumptions. To support this approach, we collaborate with independent acoustic experts such as Nova Acoustics, a UK-based acoustic consultancy specialising in workplace noise assessment, vibration analysis, and environmental sound monitoring.
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Ear tubes are commonly placed in children and sometimes adults to relieve pressure and drain fluid from the middle ear.
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Swimming is one of the most common questions parents ask after their child gets ear tubes. The good news is that in most cases, children with ear tubes can still enjoy the water. The key is understanding when swimming is safe, when extra protection is recommended, and how to reduce the risk of infections.
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Getting water in your ears while swimming is common but it’s not inevitable.
Whether you swim laps, train competitively, or just spend time in pools, lakes, or the sea, there are reliable ways to prevent water from entering the ear canal in the first place.
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Swimmer’s ear, medically known as otitis externa, is a common and painful infection of the outer ear canal the passage that leads from the outside of the ear to the eardrum. Despite its name, swimmer’s ear doesn’t affect only swimmers. Anyone can develop it when moisture, irritation, or minor injury disrupts the natural defenses of the ear canal.