SYMPTOM:

If you have the following symptoms, your hearing loss started already. Let contact with otology doctors or hearing specialists

 Asking people to repeat.

*  Strained personal relationship.

*  Misunderstanding conversations

*  Social withdrawal

*  Fatigue and stress

*  Difficulty understanding children

*  Turning up the volume of the TV

 

We have chances to see many hearing impaired patients. According to statistic information, number of hearing loss patients accounts for 10% of population and 50% of people at the age over 75 are hearing impaired. Among hearing loss impaired patients, some are innate defected, the rest are due to some diseases such as mumps, meningitis, traumatic injury (bomb explosion…), ototoxin.

Among hearing loss impaired patients, just 5% of them is conductive hearing loss and they can be treated by surgery while 95% of the rest ones is sensorineural or mixed and they need to be treated by hearing aids or cochlea implant.

Patients should remember that if they do not have an in-time treatment, their problem will become more serious. Hearing aids help patients hear better and slow down hearing loss progress.

It is very good for patients who suffer a severe binaural hearing loss to wear two hearing aids because they can help patients hear clearer and more actual.

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