How to treat hearing impairment

Hearing impairment is quite common in our daily life. The so-called hearing impairment refers to insensitivity to sound, functional abnormalities, and hearing loss, which is generally called deafness. When this disease occurs, it must be treated in time. First, the specific cause must be found, and then symptomatic treatment can be carried out. In addition, drug treatment is also often used, and sometimes hyperbaric oxygen is also used for treatment.

How to treat hearing impairment

1. Treatment of the cause

For example, patients with otitis media and labyrinthitis should be treated with antibiotics and surgical intervention; deafness caused by pontine cerebellopontine angle tumors should be treated with surgical intervention; deafness caused by drug poisoning should be treated with the drug immediately. Try to avoid intrathecal, intraventricular, or intracisternal injections of drugs such as gentamicin and streptomycin.

2. Medication

B vitamins and vasodilators (niacin, diabetic renal cell carcinoma, calcium channel blockers, etc.) should be given appropriately according to the clinical manifestations.

3. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be tried

Hyperbaric oxygen has a significant effect on hearing recovery and improvement of accompanying symptoms in patients with sudden deafness.

4. Wearing hearing aids can improve the patient's hearing condition.

5. For cochlear deafness, cochlear implant can be considered.

prevention

1. Avoid using ototoxic drugs

In clinical practice, drugs should be used rationally to avoid the use of ototoxic drugs such as aminoglycoside antibiotics such as streptomycin.

2. Treat possible causes of deafness as soon as possible

(1) Treatment of systemic diseases: Systemic underlying diseases that may cause deafness, such as hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease, should be controlled and medication should be used rationally to avoid affecting hearing function.

(2) Treatment of local diseases Common ear diseases that cause deafness, such as chronic suppurative otitis media, chronic secretory otitis media, otosclerosis, and sudden deafness, should be actively treated to avoid hearing impairment.

3. Provide protection against noise

It is very important to avoid being in a noisy environment for a long time and wearing headphones for a long time, which are susceptible factors to noise-induced hearing loss. In addition, people working in noisy environments should pay attention to occupational protection and regularly check their individual hearing.