These habits steal our hearing

Ears allow us to listen to the world better and are of great benefit in broadening our horizons. However, many people in life do not pay attention to protecting their ears, which causes certain damage to our ears and requires our attention. Some bad habits in life, such as picking your ears or wearing headphones for a long time, can cause certain damage to your ears.

Let's take a look at these habits that steal our hearing?

Nowadays, the development of science and technology has provided a lot of convenience for our lives. The emergence of mobile phones and MP3s has made our lives more colorful, but these will also cause certain damage to our ears, and we need to take precautions in our lives.

Are these habits stealing our hearing? Bad habit 1: Picking your ears. Using matchsticks, toothpicks, hairpins, etc. to dig deep into earwax may cause damage to the external auditory canal and cause external otitis, which can affect hearing in severe cases. Recommendation: Regularly wiping the earlobes with a wet towel can help clean the ears and reduce the production of earwax. Some small pieces of earwax in the ear should not be dug out deeply with hard objects, but can be gently wiped off with a medicinal cotton swab. Bad habit 2: Pinch both nostrils and blow your nose hard at the same time. This will cause the mucus to squeeze into the middle ear through the Eustachian tube, which may cause otitis media. Recommendation: Blow your nose through one nostril, and don’t blow too hard. If you have a stuffy and runny nose due to a cold, you can use ephedrine nasal drops to shrink the nasal mucosa and reduce secretions to help relieve symptoms.

Bad habit 3: Listening to MP3 or MP4 at high volume with headphones for a long time. Long-term noise stimulation can directly damage the inner ear hair cells and cause hearing loss.

Recommendation: Listen to music with headphones less often. If you use headphones, the volume should be the same as or slightly higher than normal speaking, and the listening time at one time should not exceed 30 minutes. If you want to use headphones, it is best to choose headphones instead of earbuds. In-ear headphones are directly inserted into the external auditory canal, and all the sound is received by the eardrum, which causes great damage to hearing. Bad habit 4: Using mobile phone for a long time. If the mobile phone is close to the ear, long-term electromagnetic radiation will affect hearing, causing tinnitus, stuffy ears, etc. Recommendation: Avoid using your mobile phone for long periods of time, or use headphones to answer calls, but make sure the volume of the headphones is appropriate. Bad habit 5: Being nervous and staying up late often. This will cause excessive fatigue of the mind and body, which may lead to spasm of the inner ear blood vessels and insufficient blood supply, affecting the auditory nerve and possibly causing sudden deafness.

Recommendation: Avoid mental stress, do not stay up late, ensure adequate sleep, and combine work and rest.

The above content is an introduction to these habits that steal our hearing. I hope it can be of some help to you. In our daily life, we must develop good living habits, make scientific diet plans, eat more vegetables and foods rich in fiber, actively treat diseases such as high blood pressure and high blood lipids, and be cautious when taking medications to avoid harm to the ears.