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Monday 26 November 2012

Digital Hearing Aids, the Appropriate Type For You

Hearing aids offer impartial life to people who suffer from hearing loss, and there has always been an increasing demand for the same. Long years back, you will find the huge wooden pieces that were fixed in ears of the hearing loss patients. The machine used to be so huge, irritating your ears even on little time usage. Today, with the advancements in science and technology, the medicine field has seen really massive changes, in which the digital hearing aids are one. They are really compact, sleek and are really effective in performance (coping up hearing loss).

Audiologists these days, strongly recommend the digital hearing aids, as they are really beneficial and can give effective results for the users. The compact size makes it comfortable to wear all day long, leaving no stress or pain behind. Digital aids are available in both the types, either BTE (Behind the Ear) or ITE (In The Ear).

             Digital Hearing aids
                                     

Digital hearing aids no way compromise to the functionalities of the previous analogue type; however these have proven to be far better. There are digital waves that capture the sound and convert them in forms of number to make it audible to the users. The design of these aids is incorporated with mini-computers, with which the conversion process happens. This conversion helps to experience more clear audibility over all the sounds you hear. The digital aids stand more prior and top preferred from other models, mainly because of this advanced conversion process, as only this feature can give the best audio clarity to the users.

There are also some models available on digital aids that can be programmed as per the individual’s requirement, which will more often be done by the concerned audiologist. General modifications may include shaping of frequency according to one’s own requirement. Certain other models have immense amplification feature, which again helps in high audibility and clearer voice absorption. They also have noise management feature and feedback cancellation options.

When there is something really simple and compact, yet effective model available, why still use the complicated aids? Switch over to digital hearing aids and feel the difference!
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Friday 9 November 2012

Hearing Loss: A Disease to worry about

The most sensitive organ of the human body is ear. Any kind of injury or bad treatment can affect one or more parts of ear, leading to hearing impairment or hearing loss. Hearing Impairment is described as the decrease in the ability of the ears and its other parts to perceive as well as detect sounds. It can happen either suddenly or gradually. It is the common problem that mostly comes with aging. However, the problem has been seen among people of young age or since birth. There are several factors that are responsible for the hearing impairment.

The causes of the disease are many like aging, exposure to excessive noise, injury, tumors or heredity and many others. But it has been categorised into two forms: conductive or Sensorineural. A conductive hearing impairment occurs when the sound stops reaching the inner ear. It can be occurred due to disorder in external ear, dysfunction of the eardrum or tiny inner bones. The main cause of the impairment is build of wax inside the ear, hole in the ear and others. Sensorineural hearing loss results from disorder of the inner ear. Because of the damaged inner nerves, sound signal do not reach to the hearing centre in the brain. This type of hearing impairment occurs as we grow older due to the damage hair cells. The main reason for this type of loss is long exposure to loud noise.

Other than noise there are other factors that can cause hearing impairment. There are some medications that can cause a hearing loss. The side – effects of painkillers like Vicodin is loss of hearing. You must check in with your doctor that you are not taking the drug from a long period of time. Even if you are taking it’s the time to stop and ask for alternative.

There are some genetic factors when it comes to hearing impairment as well. A hearing aid is what many doctors recommend to people.  It is easily inserted in the ear and enables you to hear the sound by amplifying it.  The same should not be used without the prescription of doctors.
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