Showing posts with label hearing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hearing. Show all posts

9/03/2009

Sounds dangerous to hearing


• The loss of the ability of a noise-induced hearing may result in a very loud sound that lasts a short time (an explosion, for example) or chronic exposure to moderate levels of noise (loud music, engines, machines, etc. ).

• Adolescents are most exposed to high intensity noise, for example, music discos, rock concerts or car radios.

• If several hours after being exposed to loud noise ringing in the ears feel, or have had trouble hearing what they say about her, maybe her ear and suffered slight damage.

• Faced with the loss of hearing, a study called "audiometry" to determine what part of the ear is the problem.

5/20/2008

The ear pain

The hearing is one of our more sensitive senses, for that that generally when you are affected, signals like the pain or otalgia, the itch, supuración, redness of the skin, decrease of the hearing, dizziness or alteration of the balance take place.

As for the same pain of the hearing, you don't owe you totally to the ullage of hygiene or the bacteria that you/they have entered in him. You are a multiplicity of factors that you/they can originate auditory affections in the external, half and interior conduit of the hearing.

Here we count you which the most frequent are.

The water:
The entry of liquid to the auditory external channel, especially in summer due to the piletas or beaches, you generate a favorable field for the multiplication of germs whose result is the pileta" "otitis. In winter they appear the otitis for allergy to cosmetic products as the shampoo, the soap, the bathroom lotions, among other.
The treatment in this instance, consists in the usage of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory, with daily sessions of cleaning of the affected field. You also owe you, to avoid the entry of the shampoo until you recover the hearing.

The presence of foreign bodies:
To the foreign bodies to those that refer, are to the insects, cotton and wax. You are a very particular case, but it can be given if an accident takes place where some element is embedded, for non higienizarse appropriately, for excessive production of wax, etc.
Here the important thing is that the physician is able to extract the embedded object with supreme care, and by means of the appropriate form according to the object type of the one that are.

Infections in the auditory half channel:
The good known ones are those that cause "otitis stockings", very habitual in the boys, where the germ is inserted by the air channels of the hearing and you arrive until the half part. They show up next to processes like the rinitis or the one catches a cold.
The treatment in these cases is by means of the use of antibiotics during 7 to 10 days. In some cases, associated with anti-inflammatory oral. Drops since these are not used they only attack the most external problems. In the most serious cases, irreversible damages can take place.

Perforation of the eardrum:
Due to a blow, to sound the nose in an excessive way, for a half otitis, or for variations of pressure.
This should talk to a surgical intervention in most of the cases.

Injure of the semicircular channels:
This produces the well-known syndrome of "Meniere (vertigos)."
You are through special therapies that can contemplate emission of ultrasounds and surgery.

4/23/2008

Why do some people have absolute hearing?

You are about the capacity to name the musical notes, of establishing the loop between the name and the sound frequency. You happen for the mode in which the brain of a musician processes the musical sounds.

The scientific studios suggest that, while people that are not musicians process the music with the right hemisphere of your brain that are the place used by the brain for the recognition of the world, the musicians they also use the left hemisphere that are the one that manage the language.

In those individuals that possess absolute hearing, it leaves of the left hemisphere you are particularly developed regarding the corresponding area of the right hemisphere. This field of the brain is located beside the area that manage the auditory stimuli and the verbal understanding.

The early exhibition to the music (6 or 7 years of age), seemed to propitiate this ability.

3/03/2008

Otitis

The otitis is the illness more common of the hearing and you are about the inflammation of the same one that can affect the extraneous part, you mediate or you confine of this organ. According to the sector that the same one affects, the denomination of the otitis class that show up.

In the case of the extraneous otitis, they are represented by the processes that affect the pavilion headphone and the conduit extraneous aiditivu. They are characterized by the appearance of intense pain, particularly when pressing or to move the pavilion headphone, and even when making movements with the mouth: to masticate, to swallow, etc.

As you are bigger or pettier the grade of the inflammation that affect the external auditory canal, the otitis can go accompanied by a certain grade of deafness, caused by the inflammation experienced by the walls of the conduit that obstruído appears.

If the inflammatory process advances, despés will appear the supuración that one manifests for a serosity and even for true pus that fill the external auditory canal and you ooze for him, staining the patient in this case the pillow, as well as the hair or the cotton pellets that usually arrange in the entry of this conduit and that frequently they forget there, transforming then into a foreign body with the complications that such a status can carry.

Now then, the otitis stockings, like you indicate your name, they are those that affect the half hearing. They can be classified in two big groups: acute and chronic. In first o'clock, that is to say the acute ones, the predominant symptoms are the pain and the deafness, accompanied in many occasions of fever; they can also show up acúfenos or buzzes of hearing of different type (beeps of type pulsátil, whistles, stream of vapor, etc.), as well as, not always, a sensation of instability or slight insecurity that it constitute the symptom called vertigo.

The half acute otitis, if you are not quickly, you will produce supuración and, like in some extraneous otitis, you also here flow of the extraneous hearing a white xanthic liquid that stain the cottons and the pillow.

The leading cause of this supuracuión resides in a nasal infection that for via tubal, that is to say, for the Eustachian tube that communicate the nasal graves with the tympanic box or half hearing, it is transmitted at this last. The appearance of this supuración indicates that the drum membrane or eardrum that it are kind of a diaphragm that separate the extraneous hearing of the half hearing, have been perforated, and you are then, in general, when the acute pain that the patient entered usually disappears.

The otitis interns, they also receive the laberinitis name, since in this case the inflammation resides in the interior hearing or labyrinth. In general they constitute a sequel of the otitis stockings festered chronicles, to those that when not being treated properly, they affect the interior hearing. Your main symptoms are: the supuración, the deafness, the hearing buzzes and the vertigo.