Hearing Loss is a Common Problem - How to Improve Hearing - So Simple Even Your Kids Can Do It

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• Hearing loss affects many people in the world in
  different ways. Over time, hearing loss can
  affect your communication with others and
  negatively affect your relationship with others.
  If you ignore the hearing loss, physical symptoms
  may also evolve into psychological symptoms. This
  is why we need to find a solution quickly. If
  you have hearing loss, the following can help you
  understand it. In fact, you are one of the 500
  million people with hearing problems in the
  world. In most countries, this means that more
  than one in six people have varying degrees of
  hearing loss. For at least 90 of hearing aid
  users, the matching of a suitable hearing aid
  helps them improve their communication skills,
  which is very encouraging news. This news also
  means that you can get a solution to hearing
  impaired.

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Hearing and hearing loss

• To understand the different causes of hearing
  loss and how Xiga Aachen enhances hearing levels,
  it is important to understand how the ear
  interacts with the brain to obtain sound.

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Symptoms of hearing loss

• According to different degrees and reasons,
  hearing loss is divided into different types. But
  the symptoms of hearing loss are basically the
  same. If you answer any of these questions in
  the affirmative, you may have some level of
  hearing loss. We strongly recommend that you take
  a hearing test at a professional hearing
  facility.
• Do people always say that your TV or radio is too
  loud?
• Have you missed someones call and phone because
  you did not hear the doorbell or ringtone?
• Are you having trouble communicating in a crowded
  and noisy environment?
• Do people look mumbled or unclear when
  communicating with you?
• Has anyone told you how loud you are?
• Do you often ask others to repeat what they have
  said?
• Is it advisable for your friends and family to
  use your hearing aid?

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Causes of hearing loss

• Many factors can affect your hearing and cause
  hearing loss, including
• Long-term exposure to noise
• Genetic
• disease
• Ototoxic drugs
• trauma
• Ear canal embolism
• Age aging

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Noise-induced hearing loss
Long-term exposure to more than 85dB of noise can
cause hearing loss. For example, if you have just
finished a large symphony concert or have
finished listening to MP3s at a high volume, you
will often find that listening sounds seem to
have dropped. This is because slender hair cells
in the auditory organ have been temporarily
damaged, but after a period of quiet, the damaged
hair cells will recover. This phenomenon is
called transient threshold shift (TTS).
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• However, if you are exposed to high levels of
  noise for long periods of time, these slender
  hair cells will be permanently damaged and unable
  to recover. Call it a permanent threshold shift
  (PTS). Deafening music on concerts, nightclubs
  or headphones is especially dangerous. For
  example, the music can be easily amplified to a
  dangerous level of 110-120dB after it has been
  amplified by headphones. Of course, sudden loud
  sounds such as gunfire may also cause
  noise-induced hearing loss. People working in
  high-noise environments should also pay more
  attention to protecting their hearing and protect
  their ears, such as construction workers,
  workshop workers, airport runway maintenance
  personnel and musicians.
• Noise may cause tinnitus. Tinnitus is the sound
  of a different type of noise in the interior of
  one or both ears than in real life. In fact,
  these voices do not exist, but in different forms
  and volumes continue to echo in the brain.
• What can you do?
• Preventing is always better than treatment,
  wearing the appropriate hearing aid, such as the
  market commonly earplugs or earmuffs, can also be
  tailored to different filtering devices, etc., to
  protect the hearing is the most correct and
  effective way.

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Hearing loss type

• Hearing loss may be caused by either of the
  following two ways or both.

1. Conductive hearing loss Conductive hearing
loss occurs when there is a problem with the
outer ear and middle ear or if it does not work
properly. Therefore, the sound waves cannot be
effectively transmitted into the inner ear. It is
hypothesized that conductive hearing loss due to
temporary dysfunction is usually curable by
surgery or (and) medications.
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Common causes of conductive hearing loss

• External ear trauma
• Obstruction of the external auditory meatus
  caused by (earwax) or other small items such as
  small beads or insects
• Outer or middle ear infections
• Tympanic membrane perforation
• Congenital malformations (such as Downs
  syndrome, facial hypoplasia syndrome, Trechr
  Collins syndrome or achondroplasia (dwarfism)

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• The audiogram on the right shows conductive
  hearing loss. In this example, the inner ear
  works properly, but some factors inhibit the
  transmission of sound through the outer ear
  (middle ear) to the inner ear. The top audiogram
  shows a right ear hearing from 30 to 50 dB HL and
  a left ear hearing from 35 dB to 45 dBHL. This
  person will only be able to detect some segments
  of normal speech that are about 65 dB in
  intensity. A person with normal hearing has a
  maximum dynamic range of 65dB between the hearing
  threshold (0 dB) and the speech level (65 dB).
  People who have the above hearing loss have a
  dynamic range of only about 20 dB. This
  approximately 45 dB gap must be compensated to
  ensure that the patient is properly aware of
  speech and sound.
• On the basis of routine diagnosis, the necessary
  gain is usually provided by the following methods
  
• Conventional hearing aids (sometimes have no
  effect due to chronic otitis media, suppuration,
  external ear or ear canal dysplasia).
• Bone conduction hearing aids After the pinna,
  place a vibration sensor on the skull using a
  headband or holder.
• Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) Attach a
  vibrational hearing solution to the skull using
  an implanted screw.

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• If the inner ear is intact, the bone conduction
  hearing solution will not give any amplification
  sound. Their job is to make the sound heard
  through the appropriate vibrations of the skull
  and thus deliver the sound directly to the inner
  ear. From there, the auditory process continues
  normally.
• 2 sensorineural hearing loss
• Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common
  hearing loss. Problems usually come from the
  inner ear and the auditory nerve. Mostly due to
  the damage of the inner ear (cochlear). Under
  such conditions, the hair cells in the cochlea
  are impaired, unable to transmit electrical
  signals to the brain. Sensory neurological
  hearing loss may be caused by innate, may also be
  caused by acquired factors

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• Acquired factors
• Ototoxic drugs (damage auditory system) , Head
  trauma , Noise damage , Senile hearing loss , Ear
  infections, meningitis, encephalitis, Other
  diseases

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• The bottom of the descending type audiogram,
  symmetrical decline of both ears, low-frequency
  hearing is 20dB, high-frequency hearing decreased
  to 75dB. Most of these hearing loss losses can be
  obtained with a suitable hearing aid.
• If the speech-related frequency of hearing loss
  is between 80 and 90 dB or higher, it becomes
  more difficult to fully understand the speech.
  The problem here is that patients with very
  severe hearing loss still feel uncomfortable like
  normal people when they hear loud voices.
  Therefore, when configuring a hearing aid, the
  complete speech spectrum must be adjusted to the
  residual dynamic range of the patient, but a
  typical hearing aid may not provide sufficient
  gain if the dynamic range has been reduced to
  10-20 dB.
• At this point, the patient may consider
  implanting a cochlear implant (CI). Cochlear
  implants replace the function of the inner ear
  and translate the sound directly into electrical
  signals that stimulate the auditory nerve and
  transmit electrical signals to the central
  nervous system. Cochlear implants, however, must
  be speech-induced deafness or cochlear implants
  before they are 4 years old. After a long period
  of training, they have a certain degree of
  learning ability to enable normal functioning of
  the brain to explain the sound function

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• Cochlear implants are not suitable for every
  hearing-impaired person. Even after the implants
  are implanted, they still require a lot of
  auditory training and continuous support to help
  the hearing impaired to enhance their hearing.
• Mixed hearing loss
• If the air conduction and bone conduction
  threshold are above 20dB, and the difference
  between the two is greater than 15dB, that is,
  mixed hearing loss. Such hearing loss depends on
  the extent of the loss, the physiology of the
  patients ear, and other possible influencing
  factors to determine the appropriate treatment,
  and all hearing aids that can be used in two
  types of hearing loss are available
• Conventional hearing aid
• Guided hearing aid
• Bone Anchors (BAHA)
• Implantation of cochlear implant (CI)

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According to the patients bone conduction and
the degree of loss of air conduction, select the
appropriate hearing solutions. Hearing
loss Hearing loss is divided into different
grades according to the severity of the injury.

• 25 dB HL Normal
• 26 40 dB HL Mild
• 41 60 dB HL Moderate
• 61 80 dB HL Heavy , gt 80 dB HL Very Heavy