- Hearing loss is one disability that affects approximately 17 percent of Australians according to hearnet.org.au (2005)
- Hearing loss is preventable if you look after your hearing with care or early
- The inner ear maintains equilibrium and keeps you balanced
- Earwax protects and helps fight off infection and keeps dirt, dust or foreign matter from getting inside your ear.
Hearing Loss and Hearing Prevention
Understanding and knowing what can damage your hearing is important so you can prevent from losing your hearing. Being one step ahead and taking care of your hearing can avoid further damage so you can enjoy and get more out of life as you get old.
If you go to your General Practitioner for an annual general check-up, it makes sense to visit your local Hearing Care Professional for your annual hearing check also.
Many Australians are exposed to excessive noise every day. Hearing loss can be acquired from work related accidents, health and illness, drugs, chemicals or from the aging process.
Hearing loss can occur from early birth or develop at any stage in life. Treatment options vary depending on the degree of type hearing loss.
Conductive hearing loss is the result of interference with the transmission of sound from the outer to the inner ear. The interference causing a conductive hearing loss could be impacted wax, eardrum perforation, dislocation or fusion of the middle ear bones or glue ear. These conductive hearing losses are often medically treatable but if not hearing aid amplification can assist.
Sensorineural hearing loss is the result of damage to the inner ear hair cells and/or to the auditory pathway to the brain. Sensorineural hearing loss is most commonly caused by presbyacusis (age related hearing loss) – diminished hearing experienced with ageing due to hair cell fatigue.
Some other causes of sensorineural hearing loss include NIHL (noise induced hearing loss), congenital, viral infections, Meneire’s Disease, acoustic neuroma and vascular epsiodes. Symptoms including tinnitus, loud sound sensitivity and/or distortion which are often associated with sensorineural hearing losses. Most of these issues can be successfully addressed with modern digital technology solutions.
Early hearing prevention is your key to better hearing health.
Simple and proper prevention strategies could save your hearing. Always be aware of your surroundings if you are exposed to loud noises. Wear earmuffs or earplugs if you are operating machinery or turn the volume down if you’re listening to your MP3 players or similar devices. Prevention practice like this helps to keep your hearing healthy and assists to prevent permanent hearing loss.
Protect your hearing
Always protect your hearing and never neglect it. Your ears do not get used to loud noises and repeated exposure to noise does not toughen your ears. Impact Hearing can assist with protecting your precious hearing which once damaged from noise cannot be restored.
Symptoms of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).
- You can’t hear someone talking three feet away
- You have a feeling of “fullness” in your ears after leaving a noisy area
- You hear ringing or buzzing (tinnitus) in your ears immediately after exposure to noise
- You suddenly have difficulty understanding speech after exposure to noise; you can hear people talking but you have difficulty understanding them.
- Hearing Loss
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Many Australians are exposed to excessive noise every day. Hearing loss can be acquired from work related accidents, health and illness, drugs, chemicals or from the aging process.
Hearing loss can occur from early birth or develop at any stage in life. Treatment options vary depending on the degree of type hearing loss.
Conductive hearing loss is the result of interference with the transmission of sound from the outer to the inner ear. The interference causing a conductive hearing loss could be impacted wax, eardrum perforation, dislocation or fusion of the middle ear bones or glue ear. These conductive hearing losses are often medically treatable but if not hearing aid amplification can assist.
Sensorineural hearing loss is the result of damage to the inner ear hair cells and/or to the auditory pathway to the brain. Sensorineural hearing loss is most commonly caused by presbyacusis (age related hearing loss) – diminished hearing experienced with ageing due to hair cell fatigue.
Some other causes of sensorineural hearing loss include NIHL (noise induced hearing loss), congenital, viral infections, Meneire’s Disease, acoustic neuroma and vascular epsiodes. Symptoms including tinnitus, loud sound sensitivity and/or distortion which are often associated with sensorineural hearing losses. Most of these issues can be successfully addressed with modern digital technology solutions.
- Hearing Loss Prevention
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Early hearing prevention is your key to better hearing health.
Simple and proper prevention strategies could save your hearing. Always be aware of your surroundings if you are exposed to loud noises. Wear earmuffs or earplugs if you are operating machinery or turn the volume down if you’re listening to your MP3 players or similar devices. Prevention practice like this helps to keep your hearing healthy and assists to prevent permanent hearing loss.
Protect your hearing
Always protect your hearing and never neglect it. Your ears do not get used to loud noises and repeated exposure to noise does not toughen your ears. Impact Hearing can assist with protecting your precious hearing which once damaged from noise cannot be restored.
Symptoms of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).
- You can’t hear someone talking three feet away
- You have a feeling of “fullness” in your ears after leaving a noisy area
- You hear ringing or buzzing (tinnitus) in your ears immediately after exposure to noise
- You suddenly have difficulty understanding speech after exposure to noise; you can hear people talking but you have difficulty understanding them.