Hearing loss- Causes and Preventions - By: Arindra

Hearing is the sense that makes our life easier and normal. Deafness, unlike blindness, has always been a bit of joke. It’s a nightmare feeling of being isolated from the crowd just like an outcast. Person suffering from hearing loss are often abused, teased and misunderstood just because of their deficiencies. Although hearing loss as always been a matter of joke but it should not be treated as a laughing matter.

Cause of hearing loss

Hearing loss can occur due to various reasons. It could be because of some accident or illness like mumps, measles, influenza etc or from infection during pregnancy. Even it has been seen that some people can loose their normal hearing ability just because of their constant exposure to loud noises and unbearable sound. Following unhealthy medication practices can also cause partial hearing loss.

Cure for hearing loss or deafness

Though hearing loss is a frustrating physical challenge but in most of the cases it has a cure. Today medical science has provided us the way out of hearing loss through hearing aids and surgery.

There are various types of hearing aids available in today’s hearing healthcare clinics. Broadly they are categorized in four different types: ITE (means in the ear), ITC (means in the canal), CIC (means completely in canal) and BTE (means behind the ear). A person can choose any of these based on the requirement and as suggested by audiologists. Now a day we are even having digital hearing aids with advance sound processing technology to replicate normal hearing. Apart from regular ones, various smaller and lightweight hearing aids are also available in the market that remains almost invisible from eyes of spectators. Some impressive devices like programmable hearing aids allow uses to modulate and adjust sound frequencies as per their requirement by filtering out unwanted noises.

Besides adapting surgery and hearing aids, healthy diet and food habit can also helps in curing deafness. It is advisable to eat foods rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin E, manganese and alpha-lipoic acid.

Some precautionary measures like listing ipod in low sound lavels, cutting down smoking frequency and using less synthetic chemicals can help you to stay away from the clutches of hearing loss.

About the Author

I am a freelance write, loves to write about technology and healthcare services. Recent development in healthcare services among clinics providing hearing aids in kolkata has drawn my attention. I appreciate their healthcare initiative of making this city a better place to live.

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