How is your hearing?

When walking on the road, will your ears be stimulated when you suddenly hear the honking sound of the car passing by? When you pass the square, will you feel noisy when you hear the music of various rhythms and different melodies from all corners of the square to your ears? Do you also wear the shoes that make the sound when you walk for your baby? Do you wear headphones all the time when you run If the answer is yes, then we should pay attention to it. Feng Haiyan, chief physician and doctor of Otolaryngology Department of Liuzhou people’s Hospital, said that it shows that your ears are being hurt. In order to protect your hearing, we should tell you how to give more care to your ears from the aspects of life and work, so as to better “hear the future”.

How to prevent before and after pregnancy

“Every day, there are patients who come to see a doctor for hearing loss due to various reasons.” Feng Haiyan said that as young as a newborn, as old as 80 years old. There are many causes of hearing loss, such as age, noise, genetic factors, ototoxic drugs and so on.

The incidence of congenital hearing impairment is 1 ‰ – 2 ‰, Feng said, genetic factors are an important cause of hearing loss. To avoid problems caused by this factor, pre pregnancy examination is very important. “Have received some similar patients, parents are busy working to earn money, do not do or do not regulate the pre pregnancy examination.”.

He reminded that couples who have a family history of deafness or deafness, or who have had children with hearing impairment, should carry out genetic counseling and related tests before pregnancy, and the occurrence of hereditary hearing loss can be reduced through eugenics and eugenics. After pregnancy, gene testing can be used to find out whether the baby has hearing impairment or carries the gene of deafness.

In addition, it is also very important for pregnant women to prevent virus infection, especially rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus infection, because virus infection can damage the hearing of the fetus in pregnancy. During pregnancy, we should pay attention not to be too fat, not to use drugs randomly, especially ototoxic drugs, pay attention to pregnancy induced hypertension, gestational diabetes, etc., which are important factors to reduce the incidence of congenital non hereditary hearing loss.

How to prevent childhood

In the process of growing up from the birth, the focus of prevention of hearing loss has changed.

Feng Haiyan reminded that the hearing loss caused by secretory otitis media can not be ignored. “Children have more otitis media.” He said. One is that children’s resistance is weak, and they are easy to suffer from cold, rhinitis, tonsillitis, adenoid hypertrophy, etc., causing throat pipe blockage, leading to otitis media. Another condition is otitis media caused by incorrect feeding posture. Some young mothers feed their babies in a flat sleep mode. When they are full, they immediately let their babies sleep in a flat position, which makes the milk easily pour into the middle ear through the eustachian tube, causing otitis media. Therefore, the young mother should try to hold her baby in an inclined position when feeding her baby. After feeding, let her baby rest for half an hour and then sleep in a slightly higher position.

In addition to secretory otitis media, Feng Haiyan reminded that there are still some phenomena that need parents’ attention.

Nowadays, many double working families and preschool children are taken by grandparents or grandparents. The most common situation of the older generation with their children is that they gather together to watch the bustle and where to go. Others often take their children to square dancing for two or three hours. “There is a lot of noise in the busy places, as well as in the square dancing places. All kinds of music come together and hit the ears. For children, these are noises. If they are exposed to this environment for a long time, their hearing will be damaged.” He said.

In addition, it is not advisable to play mahjong with children, buy toys that can make exciting sounds for children, and wear shoes that can “scream”, etc., so reducing entertainment noise is conducive to children’s hearing health. We should also prevent the head injury of children, use ototoxic drugs carefully, and reduce the hearing loss caused by meningitis, mumps and other viral infectious diseases.

How to prevent after adult

In terms of adult prevention of hearing loss, Feng Haiyan said that Guangdong and Guangxi are the high incidence areas of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which usually occurs in the pharyngeal recess and the posterior parietal wall of the nasopharynx, and occurs in the pharyngeal recess. Because of the proximity to the pharyngeal opening of the eustachian tube, the eustachian tube can be compressed or blocked in the early stage of tumor occurrence, causing the obstruction of ventilation and drainage in the middle tympanic chamber, causing tinnitus, ear occlusion and hearing loss. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, when the cancer tissue is killed, the radiation will also damage the adjacent normal tissue, including the auditory organ. In addition, the damage of eustachian tube function, the risk of hearing loss is very high.

In order to prevent the hearing loss caused by NPC, the first thing is to prevent NPC. The public should pay attention to strengthening the resistance of the body, strengthening physical exercise, preventing the cold, preventing the infection of EB virus, keeping the nose and throat clean, actively treating the inflammatory diseases of the nose and nasopharynx, paying attention to the diet, eating less or no salted fish, salted vegetables, preserved meat and other foods containing nitrosamines, and eating more vegetables and fruits. Secondly, it is an important way to prevent and reduce hearing loss to strengthen health examination, find NPC in early stage, and realize regular otorhinolaryngology follow-up for NPC patients.

Some people like to wear earphones when running, and the music circulates for one or two hours, which can easily cause noise deafness; some people turn the music volume to the maximum when they dance in the square, which not only disturbs the people, but also “persecutes” their hearing.

If you like to pull out your ears, you should also pay attention to that. Pull out your ears irregularly, pull out the external earwax, but push in the internal earwax, which is more likely to cause ear membrane perforation.

For the above situation, the most important thing is to change if there is something, or to encourage if there is nothing, so as to avoid or delay the occurrence of hearing loss as much as possible.