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Presbycusis and Hearing Aid
What is a hearing aid?
A device that is applied to the ear to hear better. The function of the hearing is to take the patient’s residual hearing and amplify, as a speaker. This is what I did until a few years ago hearing aids. Today, improved technology has made hearing aids fit intelligible signal can cause noise amplification. Thus, the instrument can improve the hearing of all intensities and frequencies. The hearing aid fitting process is slow and must be conducted by a hearing professional.
How a person develops presbycusis?
The progressive loss of hearing of the person with presbycusis is slow if the patient controls the risk factors mentioned above. Read the rest of this entry »
Treatment of Presbycusis
What is the treatment of a person with presbycusis?
It has been postulated the use of drugs that slow the development of presbycusis, but there is no scientific evidence of the efficacy of any of them.
When the patient hears worse, the most effective treatment is the use of hearing aids. Ideally, a bilateral hearing aid fitting for binaural reception is always more similar to the normal situation the mono. If correct a defect in vision goggles and we get, obviously, we do for the two eyes, maybe we should do the same with hearing problems.
Interpersonal communication is not only verbal but gestural. Therefore, an effective measure to improve the communication of the person with presbycusis is to look at the gestures of the speaker, trying to read lips, watch your hands, etc.. Communication is easier if it is face to face and in a well lit. Read the rest of this entry »
Diagnosis of Presbycusis
How do you diagnose a presbycusis?
The doctor should suspect that this is a person with presbycusis when we meet a person close to retirement with hearing problems, which also has the risk factors mentioned above. In these people we do basically three scans
- Otoscopy: otoscopy is the visual examination of the ear. In these people the otoscopy is normal in most cases.
- Tone threshold audiometry: is a simple test that establishes the intensity at which the patient begins to hear the tones that will broadcast the browser. It is done with headphones provided by different shades: from 125 to 8,000 Hz (hertz, or cycles per second). People with presbycusis typically have hearing loss at 2,000 Hz Read the rest of this entry »
Presbycusis
What is presbycusis?
Presbycusis is defined as hearing loss associated with age. Not be regarded as a senile disease, but as the manifestation of the normal situation of the hearing in old age, in which all the organs become less effective in their role. The importance of presbycusis is increasing due to the progressive aging of the Spanish population.
What is the cause of presbycusis?
The fundamental cause of presbyacusis is age, which progressively damaging the inner ear with a corresponding loss of hearing. The onset of presbycusis is favored by some diseases such as ear infections, trauma, exposure to noisy environments, atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and use of ototoxic medication. Read the rest of this entry »