Can senile hearing loss be left alone?

Can senile hearing loss be left alone?

Each of us has nearly 20,000 hair cells in our ears. These hair cells are mainly responsible for collecting sound signals from the outside world. As people age, the number of hair cells will decrease, which is related to the natural aging of the human body. After the hair cells are reduced, the ability to perceive sound is reduced, and varying degrees of age-related hearing loss will occur. After the signal collected and input to the central auditory system is reduced, the "use it or lose it" auditory central system will undergo functional degradation due to being "idle" for a long time, thus aggravating the degradation of auditory function. "Can hear, but cannot hear clearly" is The most important clinical manifestations of senile hearing loss.

Presbycusis is very common. According to audiological research, men begin to experience hearing loss after about the age of 45, and women later. As human life span increases, As time goes by, the elderly population increases, and the incidence of deafness in the elderly also increases. According to statistics, patients with presbycusis account for about 60-70% of patients over 60 years old in my country. Presbycusis not only affects the normal communication of the elderly, it can also cause psychological problems such as anxiety and depression, and it will also cause a burden on the family and society.