March 3, 2022 is the 23rd National Hearing Day and the 10th World Hearing Day. In order to further raise the public’s awareness of safe use of ears, the Department of Otolaryngology of Kunming Tongren Hospital will carry out a free clinic activity on the same day, which will not only provide professional guidance for each patient’s hearing health problems on the spot, but also provide various ear examinations to experience. , You should not miss it if you usually have symptoms such as inaudible and tinnitus.
Above 110 decibels will cause the death of hair cells in the inner ear
On the road and in the subway, you can often see many people listening to music and watching videos with headphones on. As everyone knows, this habit May be secretly damaging your hearing.
Some people may say, just wear a headset, it’s not that serious. Don’t worry, let’s first take a look at the main “power generator” of the entire hearing system – the inner ear hair cells.
The inner ear hair cells located in the cochlea are responsible for transmitting external sounds to the auditory nerve. The number of such cells is limited and belongs to “non-regenerative scarce resources”, and one less is used. Using headphones for a long time, the hair cells are forced to continue to “work”, and the long-term exhaustion will cause irreversible hearing damage.
Many people like to wear earphones in a noisy environment. In this case, in order to hear the sound in the earphones, they will unconsciously increase the volume of the earphones, but they do not know that it is beyond the range that the ears can bear. Under normal circumstances, a volume higher than 85 decibels is likely to cause auditory fatigue, and higher than 110 decibels will cause the death of inner ear hair cells.
After hearing loss, it is necessary to carry out hearing compensation or reconstruction in time
Many people have a vague concept of hearing loss. In fact, we can also use the hearing loss degree scale to simplify Determine which “grade” your hearing belongs to.
Of course, hearing loss is not a beast, if it can get timely and regular treatment, most people have a chance Hearing restored.
Li Tao, Director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Kunming Tongren Hospital, reminded everyone: “Hearing loss will seriously affect the social and quality of life of individuals. Therefore, in daily life, we must consciously protect our ears. When there is an abnormal condition in your ear, you need to go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis as soon as possible, actively treat, and listen to the doctor’s advice to perform hearing compensation or reconstruction in time.”
After years of accumulation and development, Kunming Tongren Hospital’s Otolaryngology Department, All year round, there are well-known ENT experts in the country for technical guidance, and well-known ENT experts in Yunnan Province are hired as the head and technical backbone of the department. The department specializes in C02 laser throat surgery, high-definition fiber narrow band laryngoscopy (NBI) technology, surgical treatment of head and neck tumors after MTD treatment, refractory sinus surgery, vertigo manipulation, laser resection of intradermal moles on the head and face, and treatment of otolithiasis, Diagnosis and treatment of vestibular rehabilitation training, voice restoration, etc.
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