Maximizing Your Hearing Aid Experience: Advanced Features You Didn’t Know About
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By: admin | October 15, 2019
Welcome to the Quality Hearing & Audiology Center blog! We are so excited that you are here. We are dedicated to assisting you to understand everything you can about the 3rd largest public health concern, just under arthritis and heart disease. Hearing loss is projected to affect 900 million people by the year 2050, as we learned in this previous post. Spring is toying with us this week as we had beautiful 70+ degree weather. But today, as I write this post, it is 34 degrees and dropping with a threat of snow. If you are anything like me, weather changes affect my sinuses! I my nose runs AND my ears are plugged and bubbling every time I swallow! Did you know that your ears are connected to your sinuses through your nose and throat? This is why when you have sinus problems, it can make your ears feel “plugged up” because of negative pressure from inflammation of your eustation tube that connects to your throat. You can locate the eustation tube (runs from your ear to your throat) by locating the muscle that runs from the bone right behind your ear to your collar bone, it is right in front of that muscle. What does this have to do with what causes hearing loss? Middle ear/sinus issues can cause a temporary hearing loss, also called a conductive hearing loss. Chronic ear infections can lead to permit sensorineural hearing loss. Which leads me into other causes of hearing loss.
A full diagnostic audiologic evaluation completed by an audiologist is the only way to determine the exact cause of hearing loss. It is important that you have a full audiological work-up that not only includes the beep test and speech testing, but also a testing that examines how the eardrum is working (tympanometry) and how the hair cells are working (Otoacoustic Emissions). This can only completed by an audiologist so make sure you check the credentials of your hearing provider. Take this test to determine if you need a hearing screening or a full diagnostic hearing evaluation. Comment below with an example of how hearing loss affects you or a loved one. Also, don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list so you will be the first to know about hearing loss and any special discounts, battery specials, hearing aid specials, or events that we are having.
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