Hearing empowers us and encourages us to protect our everyday lives without limitations happily. It enables us to socialize, work and interact with each other. It also helps us to stay in touch with the outside world. Hearing is an important thing in our daily lifestyle. If you survive with an untreated hearing loss, you may suffer from negative impacts that can reduce your quality of life. And produce negative thinking.

Causes of Hearing Loss:

Hearing loss in adults has some relevant factors, including age, genetics, noise exposure, and chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and heart disease). Age-related hearing loss or presbycusis is generally a slow, progressive hearing loss that affects both ears equally.

There are many causes of hearing loss, and it’s important to clarify what is the main cause of the hearing loss to take the best treatment.

• Hearing loss risk factors
• Any of the following situations improve your risk of progress gradual hearing loss:
• Being over 60 years old, when age-related hearing loss is more likely to occur
• Frequent exposure to loud noises, such as gunfire
• Having a close family relative with hearing loss, or a family history of genetic disorders with hearing loss

The more of these risk factors you have, the more likely you will experience hearing loss. The hearing loss is usually gradual. These are the most common risk factors, but there are some surprising risk factors, too.

Less common causes of hearing loss

• Meantime, hearing loss also can be caused by any of the following conditions:
• Certain medications sometimes called “ototoxic” drugs
• Trauma or injury to the head
• Certain illnesses such as Meniere’s disease, otosclerosis or autoimmune disease
• Acoustic neuroma

Relationship:

An untreated hearing loss is known to have negative impacts on relations. Especially on your spouse but also your children and grandchildren. Relations with friends, other family members, and colleagues may suffer, as well. You may be feeling isolated from the family discussion. More than 60% people with hearing loss negative relationship with their loved ones.

Dementia:

Also 2-5 times more likely to produce dementia.

Falling:

3 Times of higher risk of falling.

Mental problems:

Some of the mental/psychological consequences of an untreated hearing loss include:

• Mortification
• Problems focusing
• Sadness or sorrow
• Worry and disappointment
• Anxiety and suspiciousness
• Insecurity
• Self-criticism and low self-esteem/self-confidence

Social problems:

Some common social problems with an untreated hearing loss people are:

• Isolation and withdrawal
• Loss of intimacy
• Inattentiveness
• Bluffing
• Distraction and/or lack of concentration
• Problems participating in social life
• Reduced social activity
• Problems at work – may have to give up working/retire

Hearing aids may help

If you experience or facing some symptoms and problems, you should have to consult your ENT specialist. Because after the hearing test you will clarify that if you may suffer from an untreated hearing loss or not. Many of the mentioned problems can be reduced by using hearing aids. Some studies and new techniques have documented that the use of hearing support increase the quality of life if you suffer from hearing loss. So you may have to consult ENT specialist or ENT doctor in Nashik Dr. Mukesh More for Hearing loss treatment in an early stage.