Normal hearing is important, without hearing in young children will affect the development of speech, cognition and emotion, affect the reception of linguistic information, and eventually will cause deafness and mute, and seriously affect intelligence; not only affect the individual and family, but also involve society. Because hearing is the source of intelligence, it is important to love and protect the ears.
1. When should we start to love our ears?
You should think about how to protect your child’s hearing from the time you are preparing for pregnancy, so you should do genetic counseling, prenatal checkups, try to avoid bacterial and viral infections before and during pregnancy, and prohibit or cautiously use ototoxic drugs. When you are in labor, you should make sure that you have a safe delivery.
2.What should I do to love and protect my ears during infancy and childhood?
In order to detect congenitally deaf children (3 per 1,000) at an early stage, we advocate newborn hearing screening at 72 hours of birth to detect deaf children for early intervention and treatment.
Infants are prone to otitis media during infancy due to cold and flu, milk spillage, coughing and choking, and water in the bathing ear, which can cause hearing damage, so it is important to avoid these undesirable phenomena as much as possible. Infants and young children are often unable to express their will and statements, so the side effects of drugs may be overlooked and special attention should be paid, especially to drugs that are toxic to the ear such as gentamicin, kanamycin, streptomycin, erythromycin, etc. More care should be taken. There is also the need to prevent infectious diseases, infectious diseases are one of the important factors affecting hearing, especially febrile infectious diseases, high fever causes brain and nerve damage and affects hearing.
3.What should I pay attention to during my childhood to protect my hearing?
In addition to preventing cold and flu to prevent middle ear inflammation, children should be told not to dig their ears, especially not with sharp objects such as pencils and pens. You should not insert any type of foreign objects into the ear canal, and in the event of an accident, you should consult a regular hospital promptly. Parents or children should not remove foreign objects from the ear by themselves because without tools, the more they are inserted, the more they may rupture the eardrum and cause damage to the ear canal. If insects such as cockroaches crawl in, you can drop in an oily substance and then take it out at the hospital.
Because children’s hearing organs are still fragile, they should try to avoid noisy environments and not go to discos.
If you find any abnormality in ear hearing, you should seek timely consultation and treatment, including nasal and sinus diseases that affect hearing.
4.Do I need to protect my hearing during my young and middle-aged years?
Hearing health care and ear care are eternal themes. Young adults are the most prosperous period of life, a critical period for learning and enriching knowledge as well as the best period for working and contributing to society and humanity. In addition to general protection and prevention, special attention should be paid to preventing ear trauma, strengthening labor protection and preventing noise from hurting the ears. It should also be mentioned that after the age of 40, adults are prone to nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which has a great impact on hearing, and even radiation therapy after treatment.
5.How should elderly people take care of their hearing?
According to the international standard, below 45 years old and above 18 years old are young people, then 45~60 years old are middle-aged people, and above 60 years old are elderly people. If not for diseases and other reasons, everyone should live more than 100 years old. The so-called ear and eyesight, childish hair is the performance of the healthy elderly, to achieve ear and eyesight.
(1) Must prevent and control cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, vascular sclerosis, coronary heart disease, etc. Because these diseases can seriously affect the ear hearing. It is even the main cause of sudden deafness
(2) Over 60 years old, the cochlea and other functions begin to degenerate, so it is necessary to live in an appropriate environment, leisure, pay attention to reasonable nutrition, regular work and rest, the heart can not serve the old, but physical fitness should serve the old.
(3) Do more outdoor activities, be open-minded, be emotionally stable, take appropriate supplements of vitamins B, C and E, etc. Calcium supplements should be in moderation, and cod liver oil pills should not be taken in excess because it is itself still a sclerosing agent, especially for patients with vascular sclerosis.
(4) Listen to more lilting, soft radio and music, which is good for the maintenance of ear hearing. In terms of alcohol, you should avoid highly spirits. Wine can benefit the ears by enhancing vascular function, but it should be consumed in moderation; strong tea, coffee and other excitatory drinks should be consumed sparingly at night before going to bed, so as not to interfere with sleep, or cause plant nerve disorders and tinnitus.
(5) The elderly, life experience, experience in handling things, and should treat people well, and deal with family, neighborhood relations, do not easily get angry, because according to the theory of Chinese medicine, anger is easy to hurt the liver, kidneys, injury to the gods, and eventually affect the hearing, the so-called elderly, yo is Xing, yo is healthy.
(6) Some natural laws cannot be violated, old age, sickness and death is a process, treat it correctly, deal with it correctly, and live a good day happily, indeed, the body has a disease timely consultation, such as hearing and hearing poor, to the regular hospital examination, find out the cause, such as functional degeneration caused by the degree of deafness, optional appropriate hearing aids, in order to facilitate socialization, reduce misunderstanding, improve the quality of life.
(7) Do not pull out your own ears casually, and also oppose barbers to pull out your ears. If you feel that cerumen and other secretions are retained in your ears, you should go to a hospital or a community health service center with conditions to clean them. In order to maintain your health, it is best to adhere to a comprehensive physical examination (including hearing test) at least once a year to detect problems for early disposal.
People are a whole and many diseases can affect or cause each other, therefore, hearing care should not be treated in isolation. In short, ear care and healthy ears is a constant theme.