How to choose a hearing aid that suits you
Since the 1980s, hearing health has been a social concern. After more people meet the basic needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation, the pursuit of quality of life and taste is also increasing. The traditional understanding that “deafness is not fatal and deafness is not a disease” has long been abandoned by contemporary society. “Hearing and hearing clearly” has become the wish of countless hearing-impaired patients! So how to choose a hearing aid that suits you so that you can hear the moving sounds of the world again? The author believes that the following points should be paid attention to
First: There should be a correct expectation for hearing aids
Some deaf patients require that they can recover or reach the The hearing before deafness, that is to say, is the same as the normal physiological hearing experience! This is impractical and difficult to achieve. Although we require high quality hearing aids in all aspects, they are artificial hearing aids after all, and certain distortion and noise are inevitable. Therefore, there must be a process of adaptation, especially psychological adaptation, and patience is your most important partner. Wear your hearing aids regularly every day, switch them off and take them off when they make you feel tired or stressed, and put them back on after a few hours. This will allow you to slowly increase the wearing time, and the time to remove the hearing aid will be shorter and shorter. Be careful not to leave your hearing aids aside for long periods of time. After a few weeks, you can wear your hearing aids from morning to night without strain or discomfort. In fact, you’ll miss it when you forget to wear it.
Second: Buying hearing aids must be professionally matched
Hearing aids are medical devices for hearing rehabilitation. Waste of money and more likely to cause hearing loss. Before matching, you should go to a professional hearing aid store or hospital for a detailed ear and hearing examination to obtain an accurate audiogram. When fitting, use the latest technology according to your own situation – although the appearance of hearing aids is no different, the sound processing technology inside is very different, and the more advanced listening systems can automatically adjust the volume for you, so that you can be in any environment. Comfortable to listen to, even loud sounds don’t jarring or damage the rest of your hearing.
If you have hearing loss in only one ear, you only need to wear a hearing aid in one ear; if both ears are damaged, you should wear both ears. Because binaural listening can help you identify directions, understand more speech in a noisy environment, receive sounds from all sides and have a stereo listening effect.
Third: Wear a customized hearing aid as much as possible when the economy allows
Customized hearing aids are made according to the shape of the hearing patient’s ear canal and hearing loss of. Divided into in-ear, in-the-canal and deep-in-the-canal. Its main features are:
(1) Make full use of the physiological function of the human ear, use the pinna to collect more high-frequency sounds, make the sound clearer, and improve language discrimination ability
(2) Beautiful, hidden, convenient and comfortable
(3) Avoid psychological obstacles and enhance life confidence
(4) Easy to operate, not restricted by movement
(5) Easy to answer the phone
Fourth: After wearing the hearing aid, please keep in touch with the hearing aid so that you can make more detailed adjustments to the hearing aid according to the actual use situation until you can fully adapt to it Your request
Although more and more people now pay attention to hearing health and choose hearing aids. But there is also a large proportion of hearing-impaired patients who are reluctant to wear hearing aids, and a common reason for them is that the hearing loss is not that serious. In fact, if you choose hearing aids at the early stage of hearing loss, the effect of wearing them will be better. The longer the hearing center of the brain loses its response to sound, the more difficult it will be to adapt to the hearing aids. Another reason for not wearing a hearing aid is that they feel that wearing a hearing aid exposes a physical defect or impaired feeling. In fact, refusing to wear a hearing aid can cause communication difficulties, resulting in a significant sense of obstacle. Hearing aid wearers have told the world that they are increasingly inseparable from hearing aids.
