Auditory sensitivity and auditory hypersensitivity ：Do you have the feeling that your ears are tense and uncomfortable as long as you hear some sound? It’s like it makes you feel psychological or physical discomfort.
You may think that your hearing is very sensitive! What’s so special about people’s hearing of nails scratching blackboards, metal scratching through glass and rubbing plastic foam? What makes you so sensitive?
In fact, maybe you are not sensitive to hearing, but allergic to hearing!
What is auditory sensitivity ?
Auditory hypersensitivity refers to the continuous exaggeration or inappropriate response to the abnormal feeling of normal environmental sound or the sound that ordinary people do not feel any harm or discomfort. Generally speaking, it’s the sound that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Auditory hypersensitivity can be divided into two categories: ① sensitive to high-intensity / energy sound or noise; ② It is sensitive to special sound or noise and has nothing to do with the intensity / energy of sound. It is sometimes called phonophobia.
What are the causes of auditory allergy?
The etiology of most patients with auditory allergy is unknown. The common causes are recent sudden tinnitus, stress, fatigue, long-term exposure to noise and so on.
In addition, some diseases may also lead to hearing allergy, such as autism, migraine, Williams syndrome, Addison’s disease, Bell’s paralysis, depression, Lyme disease, head injury or inner ear infection.
How to treat auditory allergy?
First of all, find out what kind of hearing allergy you are: loudness hearing allergy (uncomfortable with loud noise) or fear hearing allergy (an emotional response or avoiding some environment)?
Secondly, we should follow the treatment principle of auditory allergy: avoid excessive ear protection and gradually reduce the ear’s sensitivity to sound.
1.Avoid excessive ear protection
Many patients avoid all sounds in the environment and over protect their ears to alleviate uncomfortable symptoms, which increases the central gain and aggravates the symptoms of auditory allergy.
2.Acoustic therapy
Acoustic therapy is designed to make people insensitive to triggered sounds, similar to “desensitization”.
One method is to use an in ear vocal device to expose patients to low-intensity broadband noise; Another method is to carefully introduce special ambient sound to patients.
The volume of these two methods needs to be controlled below the acceptable volume of the patient, and then slowly increase the volume to make the patient gradually adapt.
3.psychological counseling
The more serious the patients with hearing allergy are, the more serious the anxiety symptoms are. These mental and psychological problems further aggravate hearing allergy and form a vicious circle.
Therefore, in the process of diagnosis and treatment, we need to pay more attention to auditory allergy, calm patients’ anxiety and guide them to actively treat.
Keep in mind that if you have auditory allergy, please see a doctor in time. Any fear can not alleviate the symptoms. Follow the doctor’s advice for treatment, and the body can recover!
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