Hearing Loss is one of the major illness that affect older Adults. At Present, approximately seventeen percent American Adults says that they have some degree of hearing loss. Those people with hearing loss, they get difficulty in conversation with friends and family.
Moreover, the people with hearing loss, they also get difficulty in understanding doctor advice, hearing door bells, alarms and responding to warning. In Hearing Loss, the patient become unable to hear low pitched sound and the hearing loss condition may occur by certain diseases such as trauma, certain medicine and by long term exposure of the loud noises.
There are four kinds of hearing loss, the sensorineural hearing loss that occur when a kind of damage happens in inner of ear or auditory nerve. In regarding of this hearing loss, this type of hearing loss is permanent. Another kind of hearing Loss is recognized by conductive hearing loss. This specific kind of hearing loss happens when sound waves don’t reach the inner ear. The major cause of this specific hearing loss is earwax build up, fluid and Punctured ear drum.
For the treatment, of this kind of Hearing Loss is Medical or surgical treatment that could usually restore conductive hearing loss. The next hearing loss is Presbycusis. In regarding of this hearing loss, it occurs because of changes in inner ear, middle ear or outer ear and auditory nerve. Along with, one more kind of hearing problem is Tinnitus. This is common in older people and in this hearing problem ringing, hissing or roaring sounds come and it cause by loud noise.