Hearing impairment is when an individual loses the ability to hear in either one or both ears.
Deafness is usually the result of inner ear or nerve damage. It may be caused by a congenital defect, injury, disease, and certain medication, exposure to loud noise or aging. Person suffering from this disease may often lead to depression, anxiety and health problems. Hearing loss may be temporary or permanent that condition occur in hearing impairment is chronic ear infections.
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF HEARING LOSS
- Is hearing over a telephone causing you difficulty?
- Are you not able to follow the conversation, when two people are talking to you?
- Have you always tried to increase the volume on-
- the TV or Radio to hear well?
- Have you tried to strain yourself to follow a conversation?
- Has hearing in a noisy background caused trouble?
- Have you found yourself asking people to repeat themselves?
- Have you seen people you talk to mumble to themselves?
- Have you at any time misunderstood people and replied inappropriately?
- Have you faced difficulty in understanding the speech of women and children?
- Have people been annoyed as they have been misunderstood?
- Ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus
