You and your ear (Season 4)

Today, we will be sharing with you on the aspect of hearing loss as a result of aging, medically called Pressbycusis

Some people as they get older develop hearing loss. Usually it is gradual and involves both ears and within the high frequencies, the person finds it difficult to understand sound that sounds similar.
One out of three aged over 40 years people do have age related hearing loss. Half of people over 75 years have hearing loss do to aging. In most cases, the person may not know he is losing his hearing. They will hear but find it difficult to understand. So when your aged parent start telling you to repeat constantly, know he is having hearing loss

Our prayer in Audio Med is for you to keep hearing well all your life but if you get hearing loss get hearing aid. Stressing to hear will make the hearing loss worst.
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CAUSES:
• As earlier mentioned, this type of hearing loss is age related. It occurs mostly within the inner ear or along nerve pathways to the brain. Cumulative affects of environmental, industrial, social or recreational noises do cause pressbycusis.
• As a person ages, the cochlear heir cells may become damaged and the middle ear will start to undergo physical changes thereby making understanding of speech difficult.
• It could be hereditary; in some people, it is in there linage that as they get old they develop hearing loss.
• Poor health of the aged and side effects of some medicines he is taking could also lead to hearing difficulties of the elderly people.


SYMPTOMS:
• If you are elderly person, or you have elderly person who keeps bending forward to hear or who keep asking you to repeat what you have said etc, then the person must have developed age related hearing loss medically known as – Pressbycusis.
Our services in Audio Med are to help you minimize or prevent the negative impact of hearing impairment/deafness. Hearing aid is essential for them to gain maximum benefits in life.
Your ears are your get way to the world, take good care of them.