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FAQs

Why is my hearing aid not picking up voices? ›

The most common reason for a hearing aid to sound weak or dead is that it is clogged with wax or debris. If your hearing aid has a wax guard, try replacing it with a fresh one. If you have a cleaning tool (brush or pick), clean both the microphone and receiver (speaker).

The issue with your hearing aid could be an accumulation of earwax against the microphone. The earwax inhibits your hearing aid's ability to pick up sound and, hence, the amplification is muffled.

If you are finding it difficult to hear with background noise around you, then the chances are that you are having some difficulties with signal to noise ratio hearing loss.

Sound waves enter the outer ear and travel through a narrow passageway called the ear canal, which leads to the eardrum. The eardrum vibrates from the incoming sound waves and sends these vibrations to three tiny bones in the middle ear. These bones are called the malleus, incus, and stapes.

Auditory Neuropathy is a condition where someone with or without hearing loss experiences problems with perceiving speech. They hear the words, they just can't process them correctly. They may be able to hear sounds just fine, but still have difficulty recognizing spoken words.

These included aging, noise overexposure, and conditions known to specifically cause nerve damage. The team hypothesized that people with cochlear nerve damage would have lower scores on the word-recognition task than predicted by their standard hearing tests.

There is no medical or surgical treatment for hearing loss caused by noise. Damaged hair cells do not grow back. As much as possible, you should try to protect your hearing. If you do have hearing loss, you should take steps to keep it from getting worse.

Sometimes, muffled hearing doesn't improve. This can happen with Meniere's disease, age-related hearing loss, noise-induced hearing loss, and hearing loss due to head trauma or medication. If your doctor determines that hearing loss is permanent, a hearing aid may improve your hearing ability.

If you can't hear conversations when there's background noise, it's likely because your ears have trouble filtering out the environmental sounds. Trouble hearing even with mild background noise is often the first symptom of moderate hearing loss or auditory processing disorder (APD).

It turns out, the continuous background noise also known as white noise which comes from machines and other appliances, can harm your brain, it does so by overstimulating your auditory cortex– the part of the brain that helps us perceive sound. And it's even worse in children.

Is there a hearing aid that blocks out background noise? ›

Resound hearing aids for background noise

Resound hearing aids reduce background noise by using their directional microphones and All Access Directionality technology. This means that one hearing aid is in a directional mode that focuses on the sound or speech coming from the direction you are looking at.

Fluttering in the ear can be due to tinnitus, which can also cause other sounds or sensations such as throbbing, tapping, and whooshing. Other possible causes of ear fluttering include eustachian tube dysfunction, Meniere's disease, hypothyroidism, high blood pressure, earwax buildup, and more.

The Eustachian tube is an opening that connects the middle ear with the nasal-sinus cavity. This tube helps to: Balance pressure in the middle ear (commonly felt as your ears popping) Drain fluid from the middle ear. Protect the ear from both hearing sounds your body causes and nasal drainage.

It is produced from a vibrating body. The vibrating body causes the medium (water, air, etc.) around it to vibrate thus producing sound. The sound is produced when something vibrates .

The microphones on BTE and RIE hearing aids are located above the user's ear. This means that sounds processed by the hearing aid are not filtered by the user's pinna and ear canal.