Caring For Hearing Health, Tips For Choosing Hearing Devices That Are Safe For Daily

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JAKARTA - Hearing health is often neglected. Even though the sufferer is a vital sense in everyday life. Maintaining the health of hearing can start from the selection of hearing devices or personal listening devices that are safe for daily use.

Ear, Nose, Head-Head and Neck (THT-KL) specialist Dr. dr. Fikri Mirza Putranto said that the daily hearing tools are recommended that have cancelling noise to reduce noise from outside and not increase the volume while listening to use earphones.

"So he can sound the environment so it doesn't sound like it's inside. This is the safest to use in crowded places," Fikri said as reported by ANTARA.

He said several listening devices models on the market such as earbuds, over ear or headphones that cover all ears orbone conduction have the ability to produce a maximum of 95 to 110 votes.

The use of these tools is actually only recommended to be used for 15 minutes, but usually people use it in more than an hour to accompany travel and even use it until they fall asleep.

Hearing tools with the noise cancelation feature can help ears receive sounds that want to be heard with a safe volume, because noise is not disturbed outside.

However, this feature must be used wisely because by reducing the noise outside, the brain cannot sort out which ones are dangerous and not and can cause accidents because they are too focused on the sound heard from the earphone.

Fikri also suggested choosing the type of hearing tool 'bone conduction' because the need to increase the volume is smaller than other types of hearing tools.

"Bone conduction, although he can't protect the sound (from outside), but the need to increase the volume he's smaller than the use of the three above. So if for example friends or younger siblings walk, for example while running, then of course in addition to hearing the sound, you should also know there is a sound of the environment," he suggested.

He also suggested using the earphone for less than 60 minutes per day with a maximum volume of 60 percent, paying attention to the volume threshold on the cellphone, taking five minutes of rest every hour of use.

For hearing devices with an earbud model attached to the ear, it can increase the firing in the ear which makes itch. So it is necessary to pay attention to earbud hygiene by placing it in a clean place and nottaching your ears or prying it out if itching.

Fikri suggested that you do an annual hearing check if you are active in using personal listening devices. If you have experienced hearing impairments, you can help with hearing aids to improve your hearing function, reduce environmental sound and restore the function of choosing which sound you want to hear.

In very severe cases, usually we find in people who practice shooting their choice is surgery. So, we replace the function of theature's house with a koklean implant," he said.