Having a little difficulty hearing? Maybe not all the time; but, seems like your not catching everything that people are saying. Maybe you’re just feeling preoccupied and not paying attention. Maybe, just maybe, you have a mild hearing loss. A mild hearing loss is a hearing loss where your thresholds are between 25-40 decibels (dB). Normal hearing thresholds are considered 0-20 dB. No two hearing loss scenario’s are the same. A flat hearing ...
Mild hearing loss may sound, umm, mild, but it’s quite the misnomer. Professionals classify any hearing thresholds between 25-40 dB to be a mild hearing loss. But short of measuring your hearing loss precisely, how can you tell if you have mild hearing loss? People with a mild hearing loss tend to be able to hear speech when someone is speaking close to them or if the room is quiet. They can hear when ...
Instead, I am going to write about what you can do to avoid the second-leading cause of hearing loss — noise-induced hearing loss. Did you know that one in four U.S. adults have noise-induced hearing loss? That’s a lot of people (at least 40 million)! The good news is that you can protect your hearing in most situations. And if you practice good hearing protection, not only do you increase your chances of avoiding ...
