Caring for hearing health protection, listening to the world window

The ear is a very important organ of the human body. In addition to controlling the hearing, it also has the function of maintaining the balance of the body. March 3 is the national "Love Ear Day". The theme of this year is "Caring for Hearing Health and Implementing National Policies". Let us care for ear health together.

Ear health affects physical and mental health and quality of life. In life, many of our small movements that are inadvertent to the ear actually hide big risks. For example, erroneously dig the ear, not only can not play a cleaning effect, but may lead to hearing damage, and even cancer; long time wearing headphones to listen to music, call, etc., is also a chronic injury to hearing, will cause irreversible damage.

So, how many hearing impaired people are there in our district? How should you self-test your hearing in your life? For the hearing impaired, what help measures are there in our district? To this end, the Wansheng Daily reporter conducted an interview.

1 phenomenon

Hearing impairment is dominated by the elderly

"Early savvy" is often used to describe the living conditions of healthy elderly people, showing the importance of hearing health to ensure the quality of life of the elderly.According to the statistics of the District Disabled Persons' Federation, at present, there are 525 people with hearing disabilities in our district, including 235 people with hearing disabilities over 60 years old, accounting for 44.7%, and middle-aged, adolescents and children respectively. %, 21.9%, 3.4%.

"As the population ages, the problem of senile deafness becomes more and more serious. Deafness will make the elderly feel lonely, do not love communication, and feel irritated, seriously endangering the physical and mental health of the elderly." Lei Xiaodong, chief physician of the ENT department of Nantong General Hospital It is said that with the increase of age, organ function will inevitably decline, and more attention should be paid to protecting hearing health and preventing hearing loss.

2 prevention

Early detection and early treatment

Senile deafness belongs to sensorineural deafness and is a manifestation of human aging. Lei Xiaodong said that with the aging of the elderly, the proportion of elderly people with hearing disabilities continues to increase.Lei Xiaodong said that the deafness of most elderly people is gradual, and early is often overlooked. One of the most typical performances is "only hear the sound, not knowing what to say": If the elderly at home often hear the wrong words from others, and often ask others to repeat what they just said, it is necessary to pay attention to whether the hearing has subsided. In addition, if you find that the old man turns his head to the speaker side in order to be able to hear others, while leaning forward, or turning the TV volume too loud, and often accompanied by tinnitus symptoms, pay more attention and check early. .

“Compared with hearing impairment in children, the hearing impairment of the elderly has not received enough attention. Listening is very important for the health of the elderly, and it has many subtle influences on physical and mental health.” Lei Xiaodong said, the causes of hearing impairment in the elderly Many, body aging, external environmental effects, vascular disease, bacterial virus invasion, ear toxic drugs and chemical agents have different degrees of impact on hearing.

Lei Xiaodong said that in daily life, it is necessary to stay away from the factors that endanger hearing health. If the elderly are exposed to noise for a long time, the hearing that would have begun to decline will be more likely to fatigue, the hearing will rapidly decline, and even noise deafness will occur. Therefore, the elderly should minimize the interference of noise on hearing.

"Elderly people with cardiovascular disease must eat less saturated fatty foods to reduce the incidence of high blood pressure." Lei Xiaodong stressed that once an abnormality is found, it is necessary to take medication in time to avoid triggering microvascular disease of the cochlea.

Good health habits are very important. Many elderly people like to use ear spoons, match sticks, etc. to dig their ears. This is easy to hurt the ear canal, causing infection, inflammation, and even damage to the tympanic membrane. Lei Xiaodong suggested that when the ear canal is itchy, use a cotton swab dipped in a little alcohol or glycerin, gently swab the ear canal, or take vitamin E, C and cod liver oil, the inner ear itching can be relieved.

"The elderly can supplement vitamins A, D and E in appropriate amounts, try to avoid the use of ototoxic drugs to cause hearing damage." Lei Xiaodong suggested that the elderly should go to the hospital regularly for ear examination, early detection and early treatment.

3 Gospel

Let the hearing impaired regain the "new voice"

"I can finally hear the sound, so happy." Wang Yan (pseudonym), 13 years old, put on her hearing aid and expressed her joy in sign language. Her mother told the Wansheng Daily reporter that Wang Yan had a serious illness when he was a child, and he could not hear the sound. The family is poor, and they have to treat their children. There is no extra money to buy hearing aids. Fortunately, the rescue policy in the district has allowed Wang Yan to regain a new "sound".Wu Hao, director of the District Disabled Persons' Employment Service Center, said that in recent years, our district has formulated a number of rescue policies to send "new voices" to people with hearing disabilities. After hearing and speech rehabilitation, the 17-year-old prelingual deaf patients who have entered the general school and the post-linguistic patients who are under the age of 18 can receive a one-time rescue of cochlear implant and rehabilitation training; Children with disabilities can receive a one-time subsidy for implant surgery, the subsidy standard is 12,000 yuan / person; mental, intellectual and behavioral development is normal, and hearing-impaired children who are assessed to be in compliance with the conditions of wearing hearing aids can obtain one-time 2 full-digital hearing aids for free. At the same time, it can obtain disposable hearing aid fitting, ear mold making, battery purchase, and commissioning service fee within one year. The subsidy standard is 1,200 yuan/person; children with hearing disabilities and autistic children can enjoy auditory speech function training and exercise, cognition, Rehabilitation training such as communication and adaptability, training time is not less than 10 months, no less than 3 hours per day, the subsidy standard is 20,000 yuan / person / year.

Since last year, the District Disabled Persons' Federation has distributed 50 hearing aids free of charge to hearing impaired personnel, and has distributed a total of more than 3 million yuan in grants and distributed more than 26,000 promotional materials such as deafness prevention.