A person’s hearing impairment occurs partially or completely, causing the inability to hear, understand or lose hearing due to several factors.
Hearing impairment factors
- Genetic factors and family history with hearing impairment; children inherit genes that cause hearing loss and are more than recessive genes.
- There are some types of medications that affect the hearing when taken, which contain aminoglycoside, hydrocodone and aspirin and significantly affect the hearing when taken more than the amount prescribed by the doctor to the patient.
- Disorders and disorders in the areas responsible for transmitting sound signals to the brain, causing hearing impairment.
- Wax produced by the ear and accumulated.
- The occurrence of atherosclerosis in the arteries.
- Long exposure to loud sounds, noisy noise, or sudden loud noise, such as: sounds of explosions that affect hearing very quickly.
- Age has a significant impact on hearing, the longer a person’s age has affected hearing.
- Infectious immune system, such as: HIV infection.
- Frequent mumps and blood loss from the nose area.
- High body temperature for normal temperatures.
- Measles infection.
- Take drugs that are toxic to the body and affect hearing.
- Head injuries that a person may experience, especially if accompanied by bleeding in the head.
The severity of hearing impairment varies from person to person depending on the type of hearing impairment that the person has suffered.
Types of hearing impairment
- Sensory hearing impairment, which is mild, moderate and severe, depends on the severity of the infection that occurs in the cortisone found in the auditory nervous system.
- Weak hearing impairment. In this type of hearing impairment, the incidence varies between mild, moderate and severe, according to the injury to the middle ear, and obstruction in the outer channel of the ear in the auditory nerve.
- Weak hearing impairment, and this type of hearing loss is one of the most severe and severe types of hearing impairment, in addition to the treatment is difficult.
Symptoms associated with hearing loss
- Lack of clarity of speech heard by the injured person.
- Working on asking for repeated speech more than once to be understood by the injured person.
- Work to raise the sound of the TV or anything that the victim listens to.
Hearing impairment is treated by conducting tests to determine the type of hearing loss and finding out why to choose the method of treatment is useful, and may be resorting to the use of speakers that collect the sounds and concentration in the ear.