The ability to hear things is most often a sense we take for granted from the time of birth. We’re born with it, and until it’s taken away from us, most of us don’t spend too much time thinking about it. But taking care of your hearing is something that can see us into old age with our ears intact. Did you know these four tips that can help you take care of your hearing?
1. Earwax
It’s disgusting, you say. Better to be rid of it than to gunk up our ears with it. Well, as gross as it seems, it does a fantastic job for the ears. The more often you clean your ears, the more prone you might be to infections and ear damage. Earwax protects the ear, and if you keep cleaning it out, it can’t do its job!
2. Don’t Go Poking Around In There!
Ever hear of that saying about not putting anything smaller than your elbow in your ear? Well, it’s true. Although many people these days use Q-tips to clean out their ears, they were never meant to do that. You should never put anything down your ear canal. You could push too far, and you could push the wax so far down it can become stuck and affect your hearing. If you want to clean out your ears, use a washcloth.
3. Always Use Earplugs
For those who perform noisy jobs, you’ll want to always have a pair of earplugs nearby. Prolonged loud noises can cause preventable ear damage. If you really like your hearing, you can get a professional set of reusable earplugs that will mold to the shape of your ear.
4. Convertibles
Some recent studies have shown that hearing loss might be attributed to those who ride in convertibles. Those who ride motorcycles definitely need to protect their hearing, but their four-wheeled driving counterparts also need to do the same. Again, loud prolonged noises can do significant damage to your hearing, and that includes the sound of the highway and the wind rushing past your face.
5. Always Be Aware
Just be aware of the noises that are around you. Some sudden noises can be prevented, but others, like traffic and construction can be managed with earplugs or by moving further away.
If you enjoy the sense of hearing, you won’t know how much you really enjoyed it until it’s gone. To prevent that from happening, take these four tips and put them into action.
The Ear Screening Kit, now in its third generation, is a CE certified production-version. It consists of four components: an otoscope, a digital image capturing and transmitting device (smartphone), a light source for the otoscope, and a mobile data SIM card. A telemedicine application is loaded onto the device to record an entire case, including images of the ear and provisional diagnosis. The completed test is then transmitted to a cloud server over 3G which can be accessed by the ENT surgeon.
How it works :
Specially trained community health workers are equipped with an innovative field ear screening kit called ENTraview and deployed in low- income urban communities and rural areas. The customized application enables the health workers to gather patients details, complaints and other information including an image of the tympanic membrane, with a built-in algorithm for field triaging of ear diseases including infections, impacted wax, foreign body etc. A WHO based field evaluation helps them to identify population with diminished hearing. The complete patient case recorded via this application is transmitted to a server where an ENT surgeon can access the case and recommend the next course of action.
Treatment includes medical management, minor procedures, surgical intervention and rehabilitation. Current Shruti care network includes charitable as well as for profit hospitals, ENT Surgeons and government tertiary care centers.
Shruti Program is currently operational across seven self-funded cities in Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Hyderabad, Aurangabad, Jaipur, Raipur, Amritsar, Chennai and Dhaka (Bangladesh). As of February 2017, through community health workers, the program has screened more than 2,70,000 people. Over 25% of screened population needs some form of ear care, about 8% population need a combination of medical and surgical intervention and 3-5 % population need hearing aids.
Hearing plays a significant role in our overall quality of life. Shruti program addresses ear diseases and hearing loss by connecting you to the power of technology and partnerships. Shruti can help you to get perfect hearing aid for your hearing loss.
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