हिंदी
CHANDIGARH
With the growing age, people start witnessing hearing problems due to a variety of reasons.
Changes that are just like the rest of their bodies. After the age of 60, many adults endure age-related hearing loss, and according to estimates from the World Health Organization, 63 million people in India have a significant hearing impairment. The ability to understand what others are saying, hear phones, doorbells, smoke alarms, and react to warnings can all be seriously impacted by hearing loss, which can also significantly lower a person’s quality of life.
Degeneration which affects vision may take place at one age both within the eardrum and along the nerve pathways leading to the brain.
Causes:
A person’s inner ear, which aids with hearing, has tiny hair cells that are most often the cause of such alterations. The brain can recognize sounds by converting the electrical impulses produced by these small hair cells from sound waves. Since hair cells cannot grow or renew, whatever hearing loss a person experiences as a result of the injury is irreversible.
She continued by saying that some other factors, such as poor circulation, insulin, the use of certain drugs, exposure to loud sounds, tobacco, and family medical history, might contribute to age-related hearing impairment.
Symptoms:
Problems with speech comprehension, processing auditory information, sound identification, and discrimination are all symptoms of hearing loss.
Other signs include:
- Ringing in the ears
- Requesting that others repeat what they have said
- Louder than usual radio or TV level
Experts emphasized that the following are the most prevalent types of treatment available:
- Hearing aids – These are wearable technological devices that amplify sounds.
- Cochlear implants – Cochlear implants are tiny electronic devices that are surgically inserted into the ear to assist in giving severely deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals a feeling of sound.
- Bone-anchored hearing aids are created to take use of the body’s inherent capacity to transmit sound through bone conduction. The processor gathers up sound, transforms it into vibrations, and then transmits those vibrations to the inner ear through the skull bone.
