{"id":4575,"date":"2022-08-07T06:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johear.com\/?page_id=4575"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:34:25","slug":"hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johear.com\/en\/hearing-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people don\u2019t notice their own hearing loss and wait too long to get help. Children and teenagers seldom complain about the symptoms of hearing loss. Adults may lose their hearing so gradually they do not realize it is happening. With some types of hearing loss, you may not even be aware of the loss, but it can be detected with a hearing test.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Signs &amp; Symptoms of Hearing Loss<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4><strong>Here are some signs that you may have a hearing loss:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Difficulty hearing people in noisy environments such as a restaurant, shopping mall, in cars, or at the movie theater.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trouble distinguishing the consonant sounds in words.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muffling of speech or it seems like more people \u201cmumble\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Family, friends, or colleagues often need to repeat themselves when speaking with you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have trouble distinguishing what people say when they are not facing you or are further away, such as a meeting or across the room.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have trouble following conversations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Needing to turn up the volume of the television or radio.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have ringing, buzzing, or hissing sounds in your ears.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Withdrawal from conversations or avoidance of situations where you know you will struggle to hear clearly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have one or more of these symptoms, consult with an audiologist to find out more about your hearing levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Long-term impacts of untreated hearing loss<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People with untreated hearing loss (people with hearing loss who do not wear hearing aids) experience a decreased quality of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Untreated hearing loss has been shown to cause sadness, depression, anxiety, increased cognitive decline, paranoia, and poor social relationships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People with untreated hearing loss may have a difficult time in their careers\u2014often earning thousands of dollars less than their hearing peers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treating hearing loss with hearing aids has been shown to prevent or reduce these effects. It\u2019s very common for people who wear hearing aids to say \u201cI don\u2019t know why I waited so long to get them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Types of hearing loss:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is more than one type of hearing loss, changes to different parts of the hearing system will result in one of three types of hearing loss:\u00a0 sensorineural, conductive, or mixed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_tta-container\" data-vc-action=\"collapse\"><div class=\"vc_general vc_tta vc_tta-tabs vc_tta-color-grey vc_tta-style-classic vc_tta-shape-rounded vc_tta-spacing-1 vc_tta-tabs-position-top vc_tta-controls-align-left\"><div class=\"vc_tta-tabs-container\"><ul class=\"vc_tta-tabs-list\" role=\"tablist\"><li class=\"vc_tta-tab vc_active\" data-vc-tab role=\"presentation\"><a href=\"#1660560837324-93e2cff6-2dae\" data-vc-tabs data-vc-container=\".vc_tta\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" id=\"tab-1660560837324-93e2cff6-2dae\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Sensorineural Hearing Loss<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"vc_tta-tab\" data-vc-tab role=\"presentation\"><a href=\"#1660560837346-7233e6f7-d68c\" data-vc-tabs data-vc-container=\".vc_tta\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" id=\"tab-1660560837346-7233e6f7-d68c\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Conductive Hearing Loss<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"vc_tta-tab\" data-vc-tab role=\"presentation\"><a href=\"#1660563240584-cc9d492e-52c1\" data-vc-tabs data-vc-container=\".vc_tta\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" id=\"tab-1660563240584-cc9d492e-52c1\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Mixed Hearing Loss<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panels-container\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panels\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" id=\"1660560837324-93e2cff6-2dae\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title\"><a href=\"#1660560837324-93e2cff6-2dae\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Sensorineural Hearing Loss<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) results from changes in the inner ear (cochlea) and\/or the auditory nerve from the inner ear to the auditory cortex of the brain. More often, these changes cause permanent hearing loss that is not treatable with medicine or surgery. Some of the known causes of SNHL include the following: age, noise exposure, genetics, malformations of the inner ear, benign tumor, illnesses, medications known to be toxic to the ear, and head trauma. Hearing aids are a common solution used to assist with this type of hearing loss.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel\" id=\"1660560837346-7233e6f7-d68c\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title\"><a href=\"#1660560837346-7233e6f7-d68c\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Conductive Hearing Loss<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Conductive hearing loss (CHL) results from changes in the outer ear and\/or middle ear. With a CHL, sound is not able to travel (be conducted) efficiently down the ear canal, through the eardrum, and along the ossicles (middle ear bones). Some of the more common causes of CHL include the following: fluid in the middle ear, ear infection in either the outer or middle ear space, a hole in the eardrum, earwax blockage, a foreign object in the ear canal. This type of hearing loss is often corrected with medical management or surgery. In some cases, hearing aids may be recommended.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel\" id=\"1660563240584-cc9d492e-52c1\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title\"><a href=\"#1660563240584-cc9d492e-52c1\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Mixed Hearing Loss<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mixed hearing loss (MHL) results from the presence of both a SNHL and CHL at the same time.\u00a0 For example. Sometimes MHL can improve with medical management, while other times, it is permanent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people don\u2019t notice their own hearing loss and wait too long to get help. Children and teenagers seldom complain about the symptoms of hearing loss. 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