What are the causes of hearing loss?

1. Poor management of chronic diseases: patients with hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and poor liver and kidney function will have certain harm to hearing if the basic diseases are not well controlled.

2. Otototoxic drugs: Many drugs can cause certain damage to hearing while treating diseases, including aminoglycoside antibiotics (gentamicin, streptomycin and karamycin), some anti-tumor drugs (carboplatin and cisplatin) and some diuretics.

3. Noise: The influence of noise on listening should not be underestimated. There are many sources of noise, and if you don't pay attention, you will unconsciously damage your hearing. If you are inevitably exposed to noise at ordinary times, you must try your best to protect yourself. In addition to chronic and persistent hearing loss, noise can also cause acute damage.

4, bad habits: the most common is to wear headphones for a long time, the sound is very loud, and even some people sleep with headphones. In addition, excessive staying up late, irregular life, excessive alcohol and tobacco, etc. , will affect the physical condition including hearing.

Extended data:

Senile deafness has the following characteristics:

1, I only hear the sound, I don't understand its meaning, and I always interrupt when I speak: this is the biggest feature of presbycusis. Old people can hear voices and know that someone is talking, but they are not good at understanding the language, so they ask to speak for the second time and the third time, and they always interrupt when talking, which seriously affects communication with others.

2. If the sound is too small to hear, it will be too noisy if the sound is too loud: Because senile deafness is neurological, the threshold of hearing-impaired elderly people's tolerance to sound will change, which is very different from normal people. If the sound is too small to reach the threshold, you can't hear it. If it reaches or exceeds the threshold, you can't stand it and feel very noisy.

3, allergic to individual sounds: Some people with normal voices feel fine, but the elderly will be more sensitive and feel uncomfortable, so they often don't like noisy environments and prefer quiet environments.

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