What is it like to be hard of hearing?
Often need the other party to repeat when chatting, mobile phone or TV volume is too high, often miss the doorbell or phone ring...
You know what? Hearing in the human ear begins to decline between the ages of 30 and 40.
Studies have reported that the incidence of hearing loss in the elderly aged 60 to 75 years is as high as 60%.
Although the symptoms of early hearing loss are not obvious, they can unknowingly affect our physical and mental health and relationships, often leading to communication difficulties, social isolation, cognitive decline, increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, and significantly reduced quality of life.
Hearing loss is often thought to be the preserve of the elderly, but it is becoming more common among young people. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 1 billion people between the ages of 12 and 35 are at risk of hearing loss.
Two ways to measure your hearing health
If young people find themselves often unable to hear others speak, ask the other party to say it again, need to increase the volume of mobile phones, television, quiet or normal state of tinnitus phenomenon, be said to speak loudly, must be vigilant, timely medical examination and treatment.
There are many cases of sudden tinnitus and deafness in clinic, and many people are found by chance. There are two methods of self-examination and mutual examination.
Meter sound detection
In the quiet room, first plug one ear and listen to the sound of the second hand with the other ear 80 centimeters away from the clock. If you can hear it, consider it normal; If you need to shorten the distance to hear, it means that the hearing is reduced.
Speech detection
In the quiet room, the person being tested should stand side to side and plug the other side of the ear. The two people should be 6 meters away from each other. The detector speaks with an air voice, and the detected person can hear clearly as normal. If the distance needs to be shortened to hear clearly, it is reduced hearing.
How to judge their hearing level?
1. Hearing loss, such as the voice becomes higher, and it is difficult to hear when talking with people, and others need to repeat;
2. Tinnitus and earache appear;
3. You feel irritated when you hear noise.
If you have the above symptoms, you need to go to the hospital in time. The earlier the hearing injury treatment, the better, if you lose the best time, it is difficult to recover hearing.
Reminder: These bad habits are easy to cause premature hearing failure
The incidence of deafness has always existed, in recent years due to environmental pollution, the pace of life has accelerated, the incidence of deafness has increased year by year. The causes of secondary deafness are much more complex. There are several reasons for this:
STEP 01
Like to pick ears
Picking ears is a habit that many people have, but this seemingly hygienic behavior is damaging hearing, such as using toothpicks, needles, hair clips and other sharp objects to pick ears, easy to cause tympanic membrane perforation, will cause inflammation of the external ear canal, serious can lead to hearing loss.
STEP 02
The ambient sound is too loud
Sound damage to hearing is mainly divided into two categories: first, sudden loud sounds, such as explosions; The other is chronic noise, working under high noise for a long time, and hearing is unknowingly harmed.
STEP 03
He often loses his temper and gets emotional
Stress, fatigue, emotional agitation, viral infections and other factors cause the body's adrenaline production to increase, the small arteries spasm and contraction of the inner ear microcirculation, resulting in inner ear ischemia, hypoxia, resulting in inner ear disease, damage to the inner ear nerve, resulting in hearing loss.
STEP 04
sniffle
Pinch both sides of the nose with two fingers to blow nose hard, easy to contain a large number of viruses and bacteria of mucus out of the nasal hole, to reach the eustasitis tube caused by otitis media.
STEP 05
Smoke and drink
This is because toxins such as nicotine in tobacco can cause small blood vessels in the inner ear to contract and spasm, so that the inner ear blood circulation disorders; Chronic alcoholism can directly damage the auditory nerve.
STEP 06
Excessive pressure
For a long time under high intensity pressure, tension, anxiety and other negative emotions, will make the brain and auditory nerve blood supply oxygen shortage, inner ear microcirculation disorders, leading to tinnitus, hearing loss, and even induce sudden deafness.
STEP 07
Often stay up late
Generally, young tinnitus and deafness patients have a period of excessive fatigue before the disease.
For example, many white-collar patients reported that they had worked overtime continuously before hearing loss, slept less, and felt very tired; Student patients were more likely to report staying up late before the exam.
4 details to protect your hearing
The most frightening consequence of hearing loss is irreversibility, because the hair cells do not have the ability to regenerate, its number is fixed, and once the cells die, the hearing damage is permanent. Pay attention to the following details in life, can help the ear to protect the hearing.
Pay attention to ear hygiene
Keep the ear canal dry, do not frequently pick the ear, to use a scientific method, that is, a clean cotton swab soaked in a small amount of alcohol or glycerin, gently wipe the ear canal. You can clean the ear around once a week, but not every day. If there is more cerumen, affecting hearing, you can go to the hospital regularly for cleaning.
Headphones have a "60-60-60" rule
No matter what kind of headphones you wear, the volume should not exceed 60% of the total volume, each time you listen to the time should not exceed 60 minutes, the external sound should not exceed 60 decibels, do not wear headphones to sleep.
Be careful how you blow your nose
Don't press both sides of your nose at the same time. This will cause a sudden increase in pressure in the nasal cavity, resulting in bacterial and viral secretions along the eustopharyngeal tube into the middle ear cavity, the risk of middle ear infection increases, resulting in hearing damage.
Get regular hearing tests
The average person should have a hearing examination once a year; Special industries, such as decoration industry, entertainment workers, construction industry and other workers are recommended to check twice a year.
