3 reasons why hearing aids make you more deaf the more you wear them. Don’t let filial piety become the “murderer” of the elderly’s deafness. My mother-in-law used to be a kind and talkative old lady, but in recent years, I found that she is less and less talkative. She doesn’t respond to any questions. At first, I thought it was because she was old and her temper had worsened. It was not until I had trouble calling her to eat that I noticed that there was something wrong with her ears. I saw an advertisement and bought her a pair of hearing aids online. But she put them away after wearing them for only two days.
I was very angry about this, thinking that she didn’t cherish her ears and failed our filial piety. It was not until a professional hearing aid fitting agency opened downstairs that I realized:
1. You must go for hearing monitoring. Fitting hearing aids is the same as fitting glasses. Fit the ones that suit you, not the most expensive ones! Hearing will continue to decline if you don’t wear hearing aids, just like myopia will worsen if you don’t wear glasses.
2. After getting a hearing aid, you can wear it gradually in the early stage. You should always pay attention to the changes in hearing (for example, boys speak clearly, but girls can’t hear clearly). These need to be adjusted in time. After a period of running-in, the most important thing is to insist on wearing it. Wear it all the time except for sleeping and bathing. Hearing will deteriorate if you wear it sometimes and not sometimes, which will cause the auditory nerve to degenerate. Finally, if you wear a hearing aid, you may hear but not understand, and you need to do speech rehabilitation.
3.Don’t buy it online!!
Most hearing aids on the Internet are just a loudspeaker, which can’t reduce noise well, and may cause secondary hearing damage. Everyone’s ear canal is different, especially in-ear hearing aids, which must be tailored to be comfortable. The elderly are also uncomfortable and unwilling to wear them. Finally, they still need to be fitted.
