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Generally speaking, if the hearing is not good, it is recommended to take the elderly to the hearing aid fitting center for hearing test and speech test. If the hearing loss reaches the level of the need to wear a hearing aid, it is recommended to wear it.Hearing aid, Tinnitus patients can wear hearing aids.As long as there is residual hearing, it can be equippedHearing aid.Moreover, wearing hearing aids has a masking effect on tinnitus.Therefore, people with poor hearing and tinnitus are very suitable for wearing hearing aids.It is recommended to go to a professional hearing aid fitting center to experience the effect of hearing aids which are suitable for specific hearing aids.

Hearing aid is a tool for compensating hearing. It is not a special hearing aid that has no therapeutic effect on tinnitus. However, if the hearing aid is selected well, the main frequency of the patient’s tinnitus is within the amplified frequency range of the hearing aid, and the loudness of the tinnitus is not very heavy. It is possible that 70% of tinnitus can be masked. After wearing the hearing aid, the tinnitus may be reduced or not ringing. Of course, the tinnitus will still appear after the hearing aid is removed.At present, there are the latest hearing aids with tinnitus masking effect, which are especially suitable for patients with deafness and tinnitus. You can choose them under the guidance of your audiologist.

Tinnitus is closely related to deafness and often accompanies it.Therefore, when it comes to deafness, tinnitus cannot be ignored.Some experts say that tinnitus is a prelude to deafness, and it is true.Tinnitus is a sound experience that is not caused by external stimuli.According to the subjective perception (loudness), it is divided into 0-6 levels; according to the subjective perception of the tone type, it is divided into low-key, mid-tone, and high-key; according to the duration, it is divided into long-term and short-term; lighter tinnitus has no impact on life Large, but heavier ones are often upsetting.Most people’s deafness will be affected by environmental sounds.When the surrounding noise is loud, the subjective perception of tinnitus decreases or disappears, and when it is quiet, the tinnitus increases.

A typical example is that many people have trouble falling asleep interfered by tinnitus, but they are not upset by tinnitus during the day.This is because the “sound” of tinnitus will be suppressed when the ambient sound is loud (masking effect).There are many reasons for tinnitus, and it is difficult to judge the cause.Even if the diagnosis is correct, the methods and effects of treatment are limited.In this sense, tinnitus is a refractory disease.

The oldest and most effective method is the so-called “masking therapy”-the use of external sounds to suppress tinnitus.It is said that the effective rate of this therapy for patients with significant tinnitus is as high as 60-80%.Based on this principle, people invented a tinnitus treatment device, which uses electronic devices to emit targeted sounds that are not annoying to patients to reduce the negative effects of tinnitus.Someone suggested that hearing aids should be used to replace “therapeutic instruments”, which rely on signal sound amplification to mask tinnitus and achieved good results.Practice has proved that this is an effective method, especially for those with severe tinnitus.Therefore, it can be said that people with tinnitus can not only use hearing aids, but also have the effect of three birds with one stone: improving hearing status; masking tinnitus; and having a certain effect on treating tinnitus.

Experts remind: Because some patients with high-frequency hearing loss are difficult to detect, it can only be detected in professional hearing tests.Once tinnitus occurs, go to a regular hospital for treatment in time.It is recommended to wear a hearing aid if the hearing loss reaches the level of a need to wear a hearing aid.