Hearing loss & deafness articles
Deafness & hearing loss guide
There are four main types of hearing loss; conductive
hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, central hearing loss and mixed
hearing loss.
It can be very difficult to determine if a child
under the age of 19 months has a problem with their hearing because very
young children and babies will respond to their environment by touch more
than sound.
A bone conductive hearing aid is designed for those
who for one reason or another cannot wear the traditional style hearing
aid.
Once you have been diagnosed as hard of hearing and
the doctor or ENT specialist have determined that you can benefit from the
use of a hearing aid then you have to decided if you are going to have your
hearing aid on the NHS service or go private and purchase your own.
Our ears are very complex organs which can easily
become damaged; sometimes this damage can lead to deafness while in others
it leads to only temporary hearing loss, here are some of the common problems
which can have an affect on the hearing.
Genes determine what we look like and we inherit
them from our parents, just as we can inherit blue or brown eyes from them
we can also inherit genes which cause problems with our health and some
forms of deafness can be inherited from our parents through mutated genes.
Hearing aids have advanced greatly over the last
few years in both look and technology with digital hearing aids now almost
making the analogue type virtually extinct. |
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