3 Ways To Support Your Hearing Health

Once your hearing has been damaged, it is impossible to get it back again, which is why you should be doing everything you can to ensure that you take good care of your hearing health. Prevention is always better than cure, which is why having regular hearing tests and visiting hearing loss professionals as soon as you notice a potential problem with your hearing is always a good idea. 

Don’t leave it until it’s too late and do these three things to support your hearing health, starting right now.

1. Regular Hearing Tests

Having your hearing regularly tested by a hearing instrument specialist is one of the best things you can do to support your hearing health. Why? Because as mentioned above, it will help to identify any potential hearing issues early on so that they can be better treated and managed to hopefully prevent further hearing loss.

Hearing tests are pretty much always the first step on the journey to improved hearing, and they are very quick and painless to perform, so you have nothing to worry about when it comes to booking an appointment with a good hearing instrument specialist (HIS).

How do hearing tests work? They are typically conducted in a soundproof room where you will be fitted with earphones or some other form of listening device. The HIS will then play a series of sounds at various volumes and pitches to you to see if you can hear them and how you respond.

Once the test is over, the hearing instrument specialist should be able to tell you if you might be experiencing hearing loss, and if you are, they can help you to go through your options. Often, having hearing aids fitted is the best solution to hearing loss, but sometimes a hearing problem is as simple as having too much wax in the ear canal or in some cases, surgery may be suggested too – it really depends on the severity and form of your hearing loss. 

2. Use Ear Protection

An estimated 15% of people in the United States have hearing loss that was induced by noise. Whether working in loud environments, attending loud concerts or indulging in other activities where loud noises are present, it is really easy to negatively affect your hearing health without even realizing what you are doing!

The good news is, there is something you can do about it in the form of ear protection. Earplugs and earmuffs are readily available either off the shelf or custom-made for your ears only and a good HIS should be able to discuss their use with you.

Most people find that custom-made ear protection products are more effective because they are designed to fit perfectly to your ear, which means there is less chance of them failing and letting loud noises impact your sensitive hearing equipment. Oh, and don’t worry because, although they will protect your hearing, they will still enable you to enjoy those concerts and events – they won’t block everything out.

3. Give Your Ears A Break

If you have recently attended a loud concert, or otherwise subjected your ears to noises over 85 decibels, it’s a good idea to let them have a bit of a break and take it easy on the noise front for a day or so – at least 16 hours is advised. Also, while at those events, if you can take a five-minute break every hour or so, it will do your ears the world of good. 

Basically, you should allow your ears to rest after intense bursts of noise just like you need to let your muscles rest after intense periods of exercise if you want them to be as healthy as possible and do their job as well as possible for as long as possible – it really is that simple.

As you can see, supporting your hearing health could be easier than you think. The main thing is to have regular checkups with a professional hearing instrument specialist and use the best ear protection you can afford to prevent noise damage where possible.

Get in touch with Nu-Life Hearing Centre 

If you want to know more about what you can do to support your hearing health and prevent hearing loss, or if you would like to book a hearing evaluation today, do not hesitate to get in touch with the team at the Nu-Life Hearing Centre. Call us on (855) 867-7449 to speak to an experienced hearing instrument specialist about your ear health today.