Introduction
A person’s life should go through three life stages: children, teenagers and old age. Each life stage will have different life experiences and different precautions. So have you ever thought about what kind of listening problems we have at different ages? Today, EASTRAGON will take you to know how to protect our hearing at each stage of life.
Protect Hearing In Childhood
According to the data, the incidence rate of congenital deafness is about 0.1% – 0.3%. The incidence rate of congenital deafness is 2% – 4% in the group of newborn infants who are rescued by premature and intensive care units. In fact, we should pay attention to the baby’s hearing problems since the child is still in the mother and fetus, especially for families with deaf patients (relatives, couples, or children), prenatal genetic diagnosis should be done at the time of childbirth, which can greatly reduce the risk of hearing problems at the time of birth.
If the baby has a family history of deafness, jaundice or asphyxia at birth, or speaks late after birth, it is necessary to give the child a deafness gene test in time, even if there is no problem with hearing screening at birth. Timely find the baby’s hearing problems, timely intervention and treatment, and seize the golden opportunity for treatment.
In the process of children’s growth and development, there are also some factors that may cause hearing problems. For example, if the feeding posture is wrong, the child spits milk into his ears, or the water in his ears is not cleaned up in time after swimming, it may cause inflammation of the middle ear and affect his hearing. Therefore, in the annual physical examination of children, we should also pay attention to the examination of hearing to avoid the occurrence of late-onset hearing loss.
Adolescence
WHO estimates that nearly 50% of people aged 12-35 (or 1.1 billion young people) are at risk of hearing loss in the future due to long-term and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including listening to music through personal audio devices. At present, people’s lifestyles are becoming more and more rich. There are also hearing risks hidden in these rich lives. There will be many hearing problems, such as noise induced temporary hearing loss, sudden deafness and so on.
In our life, we will also hear or encounter sudden deafness caused by too long time in bar, temporary deafness caused by eating spicy food, and even sudden deafness caused by staying up late for a long time. These are hearing problems caused by bad living habits. Therefore, we should have a healthy lifestyle, protect our hearing, and don’t be deaf before we get old.
Old age
Many old people think it’s normal for people to be old and can’t hear clearly or hear clearly, so they don’t pay attention to their hearing problems. As children, they may also neglect to pay attention to their parents’ hearing due to work and other problems. EASTRAGON would like to remind the elderly and their children that although it is a natural phenomenon for the elderly to suffer from senile deafness, it can not be ignored. The occurrence of senile deafness will have a lot of impact on the elderly. For example, poor communication will lead to the increasing isolation of the elderly and increase the probability of Alzheimer’s disease It will also bring potential safety hazards to the elderly because they can’t hear the car horn or are easy to fall.
The hearing impairment of the elderly will have varying degrees of impact on the life, safety, psychology and other aspects of the elderly. Therefore, the hearing problems of the elderly can not be ignored. Intervention should be carried out to help the elderly spend their old age better.
We need to pay attention to hearing examination from birth. If there is a problem with hearing, we can find it early, intervene early and recover early. Everyone wants to listen clearly, so no matter what age, we should protect our hearing, have good hearing and better listen to the voice of the world.