How to protect the ear?
The main function of the ear is to hear and maintain balance. Once deafness is formed, it is generally irreversible, and children will be deaf. Become a language learning disability and become deaf and mute. The vestibular organs in the ear work with receptors in the eyes, muscles, and joints to maintain balance in the body. Vestibular organs are located in the inner ear, and inner ear diseases can easily cause dizziness and imbalance. The key to reducing deafness lies in prevention and early intervention.
Ear care should pay attention to:
1. Overcome bad habits – pluck your ears.
Ear feces, medically known as cerumen, is formed by the normal secretion of the cerumen gland in the ear canal combined with dandruff. In general, a small amount of flaky cerumen can be eliminated by vibration with movement and jaw movement. You should call your otologist to see if there is any cerumen and remove it with a special tool. Ear digging can easily damage the skin of the external auditory canal, bringing bacteria into the external auditory canal and causing inflammation, which is not only painful, but also difficult to treat. If the tympanic membrane is perforated, it is easy to cause infection, and otitis media can affect hearing. If the ear itch is unbearable, you can wipe it with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, but don't insert it too deeply.
2. Prevent swimming ear disease.
The cerumen forms an embolism that allows water to enter the ear, making the cerumen soften and swell, affect hearing, irritate the ear canal, and cause inflammation. If the eardrum has been perforated, do not swim to avoid causing a recurrence of various diseases. It is best to wear earplugs when swimming, keep your head above the water, and do not dive too deeply when swimming.
First, the water depth can cause pressure on the eardrum. Second, it is easy to cause dizziness and danger.
3. Protect your hearing
Hearing is a sign of good health, and attention should be paid to protecting hearing. The most common causes of hearing loss are drug poisoning and noise. The most important reason is drugs, and the drugs that can cause deafness are mainly streptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin and so on. These drugs can easily damage the inner ear, cochlea (auditory receptors), and vestibular (balance receptors), causing deafness and loss of balance.
Symptoms of cochlear poisoning mainly include: high-pitched tinnitus, hearing loss, gradually worsening during or after medication until complete deafness. The symptoms of vestibular poisoning mainly include dizziness, nausea and vomiting, walking instability, imbalance and so on. Deafening drugs are cross-sensitive. One medicine does not work, nor can other medicines. Deafness drugs can infect mothers and babies. Avoid the use of various ototoxic drugs during pregnancy.
4. Deafness also has familial susceptibility
If someone in the family finds it easy to cause deafness, others should pay more attention. Is noise-induced deafness irregular, strong stimulation of noise, not only will cause psychological discomfort, it will hurt your hearing, noise slowly damage hearing, progressive damage is difficult to treat. Intensely stimulating music can also cause hearing loss. Noisy deafness manifests as high-pitched tinnitus, which changes from intermittent to persistent, eventually leading to deafness.
To determine whether a child is deaf, you can observe your child's response to sound. If the child never gets woken up by a lot of noise while sleeping, yes. Parents' calls are ignored, they speak late, or they say simple things when they are one year old, and then they get sick and lose their language ability, and you have to doubt whether your hearing is damaged, and you have to do a hearing test in time, either in one ear or both ears. Depending on the extent of the damage, early wearing of hearing aids, early language training, can be deaf but not dumb, maintain and even improve hearing.