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How to protect residual hearing after hearing loss?

2022-07-28

Among the hearing-impaired people, there are fewer people with complete loss, and most of them still have a part of their hearing. This part is called residual hearing. Residual hearing is a favorable condition for hearing aids to play a compensatory role. However, the situation is quite complicated due to the different causes, time of onset, and degree of residual hearing. Residual hearing is very important for a deaf patient. If there is no residual hearing, it is equivalent to total deafness, and the patient cannot hear outside sounds. Even wearing hearing aids is useless (unless a cochlear implant is implanted). Although people who are totally deaf can gain hearing by implanting cochlear implants, the effect of cochlear implants is still not as good as that of residual hearing. So how to protect residual hearing after hearing loss?

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How to protect residual hearing after hearing loss?

1. When there is no cure, professional hearing aid fitting personnel should be selected as soon as possible to conduct scientific testing and fitting, and choose suitable hearing aids.

2. Try to avoid strong noise environments or wear anti-noise earplugs. Pay attention to volume control when using headphones or hearing aids.

3. Try to avoid water or foreign objects entering the ear canal to prevent ear canal infection.

4. When there is too much earwax, it is not suitable to remove it by yourself. You should ask a doctor to deal with it to avoid damage.

5. Pay attention to medication, try to avoid the use of aminoglycoside ototoxic drugs, and use them under the guidance of a doctor if necessary. (such as streptomycin, gentamicin, etc.).

6. Maintain a good psychological state: Often in a state of irritability and anger, it will cause the nerves to lose their normal regulatory function, causing ischemia, edema and hearing impairment in the inner ear organs, and it is easy to have sharp hearing loss.

7. Massage: Massage the Chufeng Point (in the depression between the earlobe and the high bone behind the ear) and Tinghui Point (in the depression in the posterior border of the mandibular joint before and below the tragus) before and after the earlobe. It is advisable to massage once a day in the morning and evening, for 5-10 minutes each time, and persist for a long time.

After hearing loss, wearing a hearing aid is the best way to develop residual hearing. AUSTAR is the best manufacturer of hearing aids in China, specializing in the production of various types of hearing aids, which are often used for hearing-impaired elderly to play a role in hearing compensation.

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