The main function of the ear is hearing and balance. Once deafness is formed, it is generally irreversible, and children's deafness will be committed.
Become a language learning disability, become a deaf mute. The vestibular organs in the ear work with receptors in the eyes, muscles and joints to keep the body balanced. The vestibular organ is located in the inner ear, and diseases of the inner ear can easily cause dizziness and imbalance. The key to reducing deafness lies in prevention and early intervention.
Ear care should pay attention to:
- Break a Bad habit -- Pick your ears.
Earwax, medically called cerumen, is formed by the normal secretion of ceruminous glands in the ear canal combined with dandruff.
In general, a small amount of sheet-like cerumen can be eliminated by vibration during movement and jaw movement.
You should call your ear doctor to check for cerumen and remove it with a special tool. Picking the ear easily damages the skin of the external ear canal, introducing bacteria into the external ear canal and causing inflammation, which is not only painful, but also difficult to treat.
If the tympanic membrane perforation is easy to cause infection, otitis media can affect hearing.
If the ear itches unbearably, you can wipe it with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, but don't insert it too deeply.
- Prevent swimming ear disease.
Hard cerumen forms an embolism, allowing water to enter the ear, making it soft and swollen, affecting hearing, irritating the ear canal and causing inflammation. If the eardrum has been perforated, do not swim, so as not to cause the recurrence of various diseases.
It is best to wear ear plugs when swimming, keep your head above the water, and don't dive too deep when swimming.
One is that the depth of the water puts pressure on the eardrum. Second, it is easy to cause dizziness and is dangerous.
- Protect your hearing
Hearing is a sign of good health, pay attention to protect hearing. The most common causes of hearing loss are drug poisoning and noise.
The most important reason is drugs, which can cause deafness mainly have streptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin and so on.
These drugs are prone to damage the inner ear, cochlea (auditory receptors) and vestibular (balance receptors), causing deafness and loss of balance.
The main symptoms of cochlear poisoning are: high-pitched tinnitus, hearing loss, gradually worsening during or after the drug until complete hearing loss. The main symptoms of vestibular poisoning are dizziness, nausea and vomiting, walking instability, imbalance and so on.
Deafening drugs are cross-sensitive. One drug doesn't work, the others don't work. Deafness drugs can infect mothers and babies. Avoid ototoxic drugs during pregnancy.
- Deafness and familial susceptibility
If someone in the family finds it easy to cause deafness, others should pay more attention. Four noise deafness irregular, strong stimulation noise, not only will cause psychological discomfort, it will harm your hearing, noise slowly damage hearing, progressive damage is difficult to treat.
Intense music can also cause hearing loss. Noise deafness is manifested as high-pitched tinnitus, which changes from intermittent to persistent and eventually leads to deafness.
To determine whether a child is deaf, you can observe the child's response to sound. If the child is never woken up by a loud noise while sleeping, yes.
Parents' call is ignored, speak late, or will say simple words when they are one year old, and then they get sick and lose their language ability, you have to doubt whether your hearing is damaged, and you have to do a hearing test in time, either in one ear or in both ears.
Depending on the extent of the damage, early wearing of hearing AIDS, early speech training, can be deaf but not mute, maintain or even improve hearing.
