Hearing loss in one ear often refers to the complete loss of hearing on one side, the impact on life mainly includes: difficulty in determining the sound source, affecting normal communication, slow response to external sound sources.
1. Difficulty in judging sound sources: The human body uses bilateral hearing to locate the direction of the sound source and to assist in judging the location and distance of the sound source. Such as walking, the affected side of the car vibration and siren is not perceived in time, or can cause a car accident and cause trauma, or even life-threatening.
2. Impact on normal communication: Interpersonal communication, more through the ears to listen to accurate and comprehensive reception of speech information, when the affected side of the sound, often need to listen to the side of the head, easy to affect normal communication.
3. Slow response to external sound sources: When many people communicate or when the background noise is noisy, the performance of speech perception ability will be reduced due to unilateral listening, thus causing slow response.
When one ear is deaf, you can actively seek medical systematic examination, clear diagnosis and the degree of disease, standardized treatment in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, and at the same time need to protect the hearing of the other healthy ear.