| Do you like listening to Canadian geese in flight? Each | | | | have the best chance of combating it before it gets |
| year, these birds begin their migration to enjoy the | | | | worse. Tiny hairs located in the cochlea respond to |
| weather in warmer regions. There are over 50 million | | | | loud/soft stimulus by giving off their own otoacoustic |
| people who suffer some loss of hearing and will never | | | | emissions. The enlarging and shrinking of these hairs |
| experience the wonder we just described. According | | | | can be measured as giving off a extremely soft |
| to audiologists, lawn mowers, leaf blowers and | | | | sound. |
| vacuum cleaners all contribute to hearing loss unless a | | | | A person commonly loses some degree of hearing as |
| person wears headphones or ear plugs. Concerts and | | | | they age but this form of hearing loss is not well |
| sporting events can also do serious damage to your | | | | understood. Another condition known as tinnitus (ringing |
| hearing. | | | | of the ears) has been found in approximately 50 million |
| Lists as long as your arm of common appliances have | | | | US citizens, and it is most often together with hearing |
| been made by audiologists. Many Americans have | | | | loss. Many peoples causes of hearing loss has |
| ignored this advice and sustained permanent hearing | | | | nothing to do with their age. Modern living is a major |
| loss that necessitates the use of a hearing | | | | culprit of hearing loss according to audiologists. Many |
| aid. Hearing loss can happen to anyone. It does not | | | | people now endure loss of hearing because of the |
| matter how much money you make. Famous baseball | | | | situations that living in the civilized world creates. Work |
| players, a former president, a popular actress and a | | | | and recreational environments are noisier than ever |
| male actor have all suffered from hearing loss. All of | | | | and our stereo systems, cars, snowmobiles, farm |
| them had to get a hearing aid to fix or improve their | | | | equipment, office equipment or even home appliances |
| problem. In the U.S., hearing issues are extremely | | | | such as your vacuum cleaner can have a negative |
| prevalent and dangerous. Nerve damage, or | | | | impact on our hearing. |
| sensorineural, causes most of the cases of permanent | | | | The signs of hearing loss can be hard to spot at first. |
| hearing loss. Many things can cause this condition, and | | | | What lets you know that you're losing your hearing? |
| the good news is that hearing aids can help those | | | | When you have to turn off the TV because it seems |
| suffering from it. You can find thousands of models to | | | | as if people are mumbling, and you notice that high/low |
| choose from, each with their own unique properties | | | | pitch sounds are not there anymore. In attempt to hear |
| and abilities to correct your hearing, though you really | | | | anything you may find yourself tilting your head, |
| should buy two of them. | | | | favoring one ear over the other. Sometimes the |
| More than half of children and babies get an ear | | | | problem is so bad that a person may actually avoid |
| infection sometime in their childhood, causing temporary | | | | parties or other social events. The brain and the inner |
| hearing loss and making people spend billions of dollars | | | | ear share a complicated process in order to help you |
| to treat it and get their child better. There are | | | | figure out a specific sound when in a crowd, and |
| encouraging and exciting new advances in newborn | | | | hearing aids can't do that yet. We go through our lives |
| testing, says one otolaryngologist. Beforehand, people | | | | everyday, surrounded by sounds, and yet most never |
| just got their hearing checked if there was a problem, | | | | stop to consider this amazing miracle. |
| but if your newborn is tested for hearing loss, you can | | | | |