The theme of this year's National Ear Day is "Caring for Hearing Health and Listening to a Wonderful Future". Ear and hearing health has always been a matter of high social concern. Hearing loss can affect the normal lives of people of all ages to varying degrees. How to scientifically care for hearing health? Relevant experts gave authoritative answers.
Hearing loss in the neonatal period can affect a child's speech, cognitive and emotional development and place a serious burden on families and society. Han Demin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, introduced that the prevention of children's hearing loss should start from parents, and refusing to marry close relatives and advocating eugenics is an important aspect. Second, mothers pay attention to perinatal care in the early stages of pregnancy, use antibiotics with caution, prevent viral infections, and choose qualified regular hospitals during childbirth to minimize or avoid birth injuries and other life-threatening conditions of the newborn.
In addition, for newborns, infants and childhoods, various diseases should be actively treated, especially the occurrence of jaundice, rational use of antibiotics and early treatment of some inflammation of the middle ear, to avoid some hearing loss on the basis of middle ear infection.
On March 1, party member volunteers from Donglin Town Health Center in Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, introduced the structure of the ear to the children with models in the Ai'er Day theme class of Donglin Primary School. (Photo by Xu Yu, Xinhua News Agency)
Gao Zhiqiang, director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, suggested that because children's Eustachian tubes are shorter and wider than adults, it is easy to cause middle ear infections, and parents should pay attention to and seek medical treatment in time. In newborns and infants, if there is a respiratory infection, such as earache, crying, and inability to sleep at night, it is also necessary to seek medical treatment in time.
According to reports, due to the wide application of electronic devices, the usual unhealthy ear habits are slowly eroding the hearing of adolescents, resulting in imperceptible hearing loss, which adversely affects the learning and life of adolescents.
Huang Lihui, director of the DeafNess Prevention Office of the OTOLH Head and Neck Surgery Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital, believes that for noise-induced hearing impairment, prevention is the most critical. Adolescents should improve their awareness of ear protection, and parents should also pay attention to their children's ear habits and remind children to reduce noise exposure, such as reducing the use of headphones.
Yang Shiming, director of the National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngology Diseases and director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department of the PLA General Hospital, suggested that when wearing headphones, attention should be paid to "two 60s", that is, not higher than 60 decibels, not longer than 60 minutes. At present, many research results show that the ear's tolerance to noise is very limited and needs to be protected at an early stage.
The hearing health problems of the elderly group also have a high degree of social concern, and the reporter found that some elderly people have affected the ability to hear and speak due to long-term inability to hear or hear, showing depression, loneliness and other emotional or psychological problems.
On March 2, volunteers checked the ears and tested their hearing for free in the Nanyuan Resettlement Community of Jiazhuang Community, Gulou Street, Yingzhou District, Fuyang City, Anhui Province. (Photo by Wang Biao, Xinhua News Agency)
Liu Bo, director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Beijing Tongren Hospital, gave a "home" method of testing hearing - rubbing it with your fingers to your ear, or testing the elderly's response to sound through whispers, mechanical watches and other things that can be sounded in life. In addition, if the elderly attend the gathering of old classmates and old friends, they cannot hear others clearly, but others can talk and laugh, they need to go to the hospital for hearing examination.
Gao Zhiqiang gave the following three suggestions on how to prevent hearing loss in the elderly:
First, the living habits should be regular, carry out appropriate exercise, and maintain a diet with low oil, less salt and less sugar. It is also important to live normally and ensure sleep.
Second, avoid noise and stay away from noise. The elderly should try to avoid the effects of noise.
Third, use the medication correctly and check it regularly. The elderly may have some underlying diseases, take a lot of medicines, and need to use the drugs correctly under the guidance of a doctor. Treatment of underlying diseases is related to the ear. It is best to follow up regularly, if necessary, go to the hospital for some hearing examinations, and if there is a problem, it should be detected early, intervene early, and treated early.
Reporter: Song Chen
Editor: Zhou Wenlin