March 3 this year marks the 23rd National Hearing Day and the 10th World Hearing Day. The theme of this year’s Ear Day is “Caring for Hearing Health, Listening to a Better Future”. According to the World Health Organization, more than 5% of the world’s population, or 466 million people, suffer from hearing loss, including 432 million adults and 34 million children. Hearing and speech impairments in China account for the first place in the total number of persons with disabilities. The establishment of “Ear Love Day” aims to let the public understand the causes of deafness, strengthen deafness prevention, popularize the harm of deafness, enhance the public’s awareness of ear love, and understand the importance of “early detection, early intervention, and early detection”. Get well soon”.
What are the early warning signs of hearing loss?
The following conditions can be early warning signs of hearing loss: We can hear sounds, but not clearly; Difficulty hearing in the environment; Repeating some content; Turning up the volume when watching TV; When the child is called, the child is slow or unresponsive, and has poor ability to locate sound sources, etc.
Hearing loss How does it affect a child’s life?
1. Affects language learning and development
Children are in an age group that learns to communicate in an external environment. Being weaker than their peers can make their language Poor skills, which can lead to slurred speech.
2. Affects children’s physical and mental health and future development
Children with hearing impairment are more likely to develop autism, depression and emotional sensitivity Being in this emotional state for a long time will have obvious negative effects on the body and mind. It will make children feel lonely and inferior among their peers, and even affect their future development.
Factors affecting hearing
1. Otitis media: Infants and young children often suffer from respiratory infections (colds, flu, etc.) due to their weak resistance, which easily allows bacteria to invade the ear. The middle ear can cause otitis media, effusion or empyema, and sometimes the tympanic membrane ruptures. The sound of the liquid changes the quality of the sound and hearing is temporarily affected.
2. Cerumen: The external auditory canal produces protective secretions. These secretions form cerumen together with the shed bacteria and dirt. If the cerumen Excessive accumulation of wax will affect our hearing.
3. Other reasons:
(1) Noise: Teenagers are exposed to loud rock music, Walkman, etc., and their hearing will suffer over time. Serious damage.
(2) Traumatic stimulation: such as car accident, direct injury, violent vibration, etc., may cause damage to the tissues and organs in the ear.
(3) Excessive mental stress : Excessive stress is an important cause of sudden deafness in many people in today’s society.
(4) Drug effects: ototoxic drugs are important factors that cause deafness, such as aminoglycoside antibiotics, antitumor drugs, Diuretics, anti-inflammatory pain relievers, etc.
How to protect hearing health
For infants and young children, it is very important to protect hearing health. So, how to protect hearing health?
1. Keep away from noisy environments. Do not wear headphones for a long time to listen to music, play games or watch TV.
2. Avoid trauma, avoid water entering the ear, do not frequently pull the ear, and protect the eardrum. Teach young children not to put things in their ears.
3. Keep a happy mood, learn to release stress, and develop good habits to protect ears.
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5. Finally, If you notice hearing loss or decline, go to the hospital promptly.
(Correspondent Zhang Xiuling Li Bao)