What should I pay attention to when wearing hearing aids with otitis media?

Regardless of the cause of the hearing loss, you should go to the otolaryngology department for audiometry-related examinations such as electrical audiometry to determine the type of deafness (conduction deafness, sensorineural hearing loss, mixed deafness) and cause, and treat it as early as possible.If the treatment fails, hearing loss affects daily work and life, you can choose to wear itHearing aid.In general, people with moderate hearing loss have the most obvious effect of using hearing aids.

We all know that hearing loss caused by otitis media is mostly conductive deafness, and mixed deafness occurs only in the late stage, even called sensorineural deafness.However, many patients are not clear. All patients with otitis media, whether it is simple acute or chronic otitis media, or acute or chronic catarrhal otitis media; secretory otitis media or acute or chronic suppurative otitis media and cholesteatoma otitis media, must first Go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, that is, treatment with drugs or surgery. If the above treatment fails, or although the inflammation is controlled or cured, it has causedHearing loss, Then you should choose suitable hearing aids to improve your hearing and social communication skills, thereby improving your own quality of life.

Hearing aids should be kept dry and clean.If you put the hearing aid in the drying box when you are not wearing it at night, it will help to remove the moisture and sweat inside the hearing aid and prolong the service life of the hearing aid.Always use a small brush to carefully clean the dust and earwax that may be blocked in the microphone input port, sound hole, vent, battery compartment, and then wipe the surface with a paper towel or soft cloth.Do not immerse the hearing aid in any liquid, please check whether it is removed before swimming and showeringHearing aid.

Experts here tell patients with otitis media that when choosing hearing aids, you need to know:

1. Whether the condition of otitis media has eliminated medical restrictions (that is, medical intervention has been invalid); 

2. Whether the inflammation of otitis media has been completely controlled (that is, the middle ear will no longer be inflamed or drained when there is no water in the middle ear); 

3. Whether the tympanic membrane is perforated (some otitis media has been cured, and the tympanic membrane has also been repaired); According to the above different situations, different hearing aids should be selected.

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