by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © July, 2019 You may have thought that most hearing loss is caused by hair cells dying. You would have been right if you were just thinking about hearing loss due to exposing your ears to loud noises. At the same time, you’d be mostly wrong if you ignored […]
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Hearing Loss and Dementia
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © August, 2018 Dementia linked to hearing loss has been in the news quite a bit lately. The media hype has left some hard of hearing people feeling that they’ll end up with dementia simply because they now have a hearing loss—as though hearing loss has to result in […]
How to Keep Diabetes From Affecting Your Hearing and Your Health
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © January, 2018 It is no secret that diabetes causes hearing loss in numbers of people with this condition. In fact, hearing loss among diabetics is more than twice that of those without diabetes. Studies show that one in three people with diabetes will have trouble with their hearing […]
Should I Wear a Hearing Aid in My Ear That Has Poor Discrimination?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. February 18, 2017 A young lady wrote, I have a 30 dB hearing loss in my left ear although I still have 100% word recognition. However, my right ear has an 80 dB hearing loss, but only 8% word recognition. My doctor told me that due to this, my […]
Obstructive Sleep Apnea, CPAP Devices and Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. February 11, 2017 A man wrote, I have sleep apnea and I use a CPAP machine every night. When I searched the Internet using Google to find out whether there is any link between sleep apnea and sensorineural hearing loss, I found many articles suggesting a link. I would […]
Hypoacusis and Other Words Ending in -acusis
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. January 12, 2017 Doctors, audiologists and other medical professionals use medical jargon that can snow under the average person. When it comes to our ears and our hearing, they may diagnosis us with terms like paracusis, or dysacusis or hypoacusis and we don’t have a clue what they have […]