Ways to Hear Better

How to Hear Better?

Noise is one of the most common causes of hearing loss, and one of the most common occupational illnesses in the Indian Subcontinent. A single shot from a shotgun, experienced at close range, may permanently damage your hearing in an instant. Repeated exposures to loud machinery may, over an extended period of time, present serious risks to human hearing.

• 1 Lakh Indians have already suffered irreversible hearing damage from noise; Lakhs more are exposed to hazardous noise levels each day.
• The risk and harmful effects of noise on hearing are often underestimated because the damage takes place so gradually.

What you can do to protect your hearing?

Most hearing losses occur gradually, so the symptoms are often that you’re not even sure if it’s happening.

Test yourself below. If you answer YES to any of these questions, you need to have a thorough examination by a hearing care professional.

• Do people seem to number or speak in a softer voice than they used to?
• Do you feel tired or irritable after a long conversation?
• Do you sometimes fail to spot Key words in a sentence, or frequently need to ask people to repeat themselves?