One. If hearing loss is found, check it in time
Once you find yourself with hearing problems, it is recommended that you go to the hospital or professional fitting center for hearing examination, a professional test of pure tone hearing report, you can see the type and degree of hearing loss, and the hearing curve may show a variety of forms, ascending, flat, decreasing, steep, etc., each person's audiogram is unique, and everyone will encounter different hearing problems.
Two. Manifestation of steeply descending hearing loss
The fitting process of patients with high-frequency steep drop hearing loss is more tortuous, and the realization of high-frequency steep drop hearing loss in the audiogram is better for low and medium frequencies, while the hearing of high-frequency 2kHz begins to drop suddenly and steeply, some drop to moderate and severe, and some people even exceed 100db, many sounds can be heard but cannot be heard clearly, especially in the noisy environment. How to choose hearing aids for such hearing loss patients?
Three. How to choose a hearing aid
High-frequency steep drop type hearing loss low frequency (250-500Hz) and medium frequency (500-2000Hz) are partially normal or have a slight decrease, generally in a quieter environment even if you do not wear hearing aids can be heard clearly, but after wearing hearing aids, you always feel that the sound is dull, like talking in a barrel, the sound is unnatural, uncomfortable to wear, many people will feel that it is better not to wear hearing aids.
It is recommended that you give preference to the shape of your hearing aids, such as receiver external hearing aids or thin acoustic tube hearing aids, with appropriate size open earbuds to release some low-frequency energy, reduce the ear occlusion effect and make the patient comfortable to wear.
Four. Frequency-shift hearing aids
High-frequency information is the most important part of our speech composition, will have an important impact on speech intelligibility, for this high-frequency compensation is very important, if the high-frequency loss is too heavy, and it is difficult to compensate by hearing aid power, excessive amplification of sound will cause the user to be very uncomfortable, in this case it is recommended that you choose a hearing aid with frequency shift, the advantage of frequency shift hearing aids is that the wearer can hear more high-frequency sound, and the sound heard is more complete, and the frequency shift function to improve speech recognition will also have disadvantages, It may cause some changes in the original sound, resulting in voice distortion, so it should be based on personal feelings, and whether turning on and off during the fitting process of a professional hearing care professional will benefit the user's speech recognition and wearing experience.
Five. Clarity of hearing aids
Generally, patients with poor high frequency have better low frequency, at first most people feel that the impact is not too big and will not care too much, and when they realize that the hearing problem is already very serious, then the speech recognition rate will also drop to a certain extent unconsciously, in this case, speech clarity and their own speech resolution have a lot of relationship.
Hearing aids with clear sound quality will process the sound more meticulously, the distortion is low, the sound is clear, the brain will be easy to distinguish, and the powerful noise reduction function improves the speech intelligibility to a certain extent, so that patients can listen more easily.
Bosom Friend Hearing reminds you that once you find that your hearing has deteriorated, you should check and intervene in time to avoid hearing problems affecting your work and life, and patients with hearing loss with poor high frequency are advised to insist on wearing it at the same time, do some proper listening training, learn the necessary listening skills, and make listening more relaxed.