Tips for Improving Your Hearing Health
If you have been diagnosed with hearing loss, or even if you haven’t, there are things you can do to help improve your overall health and hearing. We have gathered some tips that you can follow to help your hearing loss. While these won’t cure hearing loss, they can help you feel your best!
Always Wear Your Hearing Aids
If you wear hearing aids for your hearing loss, then it is best to wear them as your hearing care professional recommended. When you wear your hearing aids, it amplifies the sounds around you directly into your ear. Using your hearing aids provides a “brain boost” that your ears need to send the sounds to the brain to process them. In addition to improving your hearing, wearing your hearing aids as recommended also enhances your overall health. For example, when you don’t wear your hearing aids, it will take extra effort to hear your grandchild, but when you wear your hearing aids, that effort can instead be used to do a fun activity together.
Start Walking
Adding exercise to your routine not only improves your overall health, but it is beneficial for your hearing as well. When you walk or exercise for at least 30 minutes five times per week, that improves the blood flow through your body, including your ears. Your ears need to receive plenty of blood flow because that helps the tiny hair cells in your ears translate the sounds you hear and send them to your brain.
Quit Smoking
As we’ve previously written, smoking has been linked to hearing loss in various studies. In fact, smokers are 28% more likely to develop hearing loss than non-smokers, according to the University of Manchester in the UK. Depending on how many cigarettes or packs of cigarettes you smoke daily may increase that risk significantly. Smoking tightens your blood vessels and starves your blood from the oxygen it needs, which means that the oxygen the tiny hairs in your ear need won’t receive it. The best news is that once you quit smoking, it benefits your overall health immediately. There are so many programs available to help you quit smoking, most of them free or very low cost.
Decrease the Volume
If you regularly listen to music, you should pay attention to how loud it is, especially if you use earbuds in your ears. Noise-induced hearing loss is completely preventable, especially if you catch the problem early. Make sure to wear hearing protection if you can’t control the noise around you, but when you can control the volume, make sure it’s lower than 85 decibels.
If you are concerned with your hearing, call us at 864-881-1663 to schedule an appointment for a hearing evaluation and exam. Sound Hearing Care has four convenient locations in Simpsonville, Greer, Travelers Rest, and Greenville.
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