Ears Services
It’s very quite common for most of the people to expierence earpain in middle of night,disturbing the sleep.Earpain/earache can be due to problem with ear or structures close to the ear.
The pain may be dull,sharp or burning and can occur in one or both ears.It may constant and come and go.Earpain sometimes associated with fever.itching in ears,decreased hearing,ear discharge,rarely vertigo,nausea,vomiting etc.
Usually earpain in children follows cold attack,which causes Eustachian tube block.Eustachian tube runs middle part of each ear to back into nose.Eustachian tube block happens due to viral cold give rise fluid to build up in middle ear and cause ear pain in children.
Ear pain in adults is less likely to be from middle ear infections .Common causes of earpain in adults otitis externa i.e ear canal skin infections and TMJ dysfunction.
Swimmers ear is an infection of ear canal skin and results from swimming in contaminated water or result of earbud/cotton swab use.In people with diabetes,otitis externa can spread beyond ear skin into underlying bones,can cause life threatening infections.Therfore,prompt treatment with antibiotic ear drops as well as cleaning of ear with special equipment like suction and microscope is needed.
Another common cause for earpain is due to referred pain from the jaw joint.This is usually due to grinding of teeth during sleep.
Deafness
When you feel you are difficulty in understanding in noisy environment or if you are missing some words while conversation or if you need to rise TVvolume ,then it is time to consult ENT doctor,get checked for hearing.Reasons could be as simple as -wax accumulation in ear,or sometimes it is complex like brain tumour
ENT specialist suggests you to go for audiometry test and based on this doctor identify nature of hearing loss whether it is conductive or sensorineural or mixed.One may need further tests like CT scan,MRI for arrive correct diagnosis apart from audiometry test.
Depends on the nature of hearing loss,one may need hearing aid or surgery.Conductive deafness can be cured with surgery.Sensorinural deafness can be helped with Hearing aids.Congenital deafness with sever sensorineural hearing loss with speech delay in children need cochlear implant.
F.A.Q.
Hearing aids work by amplifying sound through 3 part system.Microphone receives sound and converts it into digital signal.Amplifier increases the strength of that digital signal.The speaker produces amplified sound into ear
People with normal hearing can hear sounds less than 25 dB,even whispe sounds.If your loved one asks frequently to repeat what you say,having difficulty understanding on the telephone,difficulty understanding during group conversations,unable to follow when there is background noise,you may suspect difficulty in hearing.
Usually digital hearing aids starts from Rs.8000 onwards to Rs.200000 for each hearing aid ,depending on level of technology,number of channels ,blue tooth compatibility,reachable battery type etc.
There are six styles of hearing aids available,which one is best suits you depends on your needs ,audio gram and hearing loss,where our audiologist guides you inbetter way.The six styles are Behind-The-Ear(BTE),Receiver -In-canal(RIC),Completely-In-Canal(CIC),In-the-Canal(ITC),Invisible (IIC).
Modern hearing aids works well for on average between three and seven years without any major repair.They have minimum 2 years of rmanufacture warranty through world wide
Hearing with only hearing aid won’t give desired benefit because our body accoustemed to hear from both ears.Our brain interprets hearing well when sound signal comes from both sides.Work of listening increased if one uses single hearing aid.