Seniors: Preserve our ears and our newsletter hearing

It is because they have no natural protection that our ears are so fragile when they are subject to many attacks.

Noise, music, dust, pollution, microbes, shampoo and swimming solicit or aggress our eardrums which have only the only protection that the cermen to which unfortunately we make war too much.

But then what should we do to protect our eardrums and preserve our hearing?Abandon the cotton swabs that mock the ceromen against the eardrum at the risk of injuring it and forming a plug.Use a washable, auricle type cure, whose curved shape allows to collect ceromen.Do not clean your ear canal more than once a week in the shower and be careful that the jet pressure is not too strong.After washing, lean the head on both sides to gently evacuate water and in full, then dry your ears with a towel or hair dryer.

Preserving your hearing is above all a question of lifestyle and prevention.Up to 80 - 85 decibels (DB), our hearing capital is not altered, provided, according to the WHO (World Health Organization), not to exceed this threshold of 85 dB more than 40 hours per week.All 3 additional decibels correspond to acoustic pressure in our ear which will double, to the dangerous and painful area of the 120 dB where our hearing can be definitively altered.This risk of hearing disorders depending on both the volume and also the listening duration for music or exposure.

Walth headphones from sight

Thus, the limit threshold of 40 hours of listening per week to 85 dB will be reduced to 2 hours per 100 dB.This has all its importance at a time when we listen to music online with headphones that placed near the tympanum are all the more dangerous.WHO estimates that 50 % of people aged 12 to 35 risk hearing impairment.Whether during a concert, to pass the mower, attend a car race or a fireworks display or in any important sound environment it is advisable - whatever your age - to wear earplugs that are not, as we think too often, reserved to protect the ears of young children.Some models lower the sound intensity while maintaining a perfect listening to the person with whom you converse.

After exposure to a high sound environment, give rest to your ears that will need 16 hours of calm to recover from a nightclub in a nightclub.

Also beware of certain drugs such as paracetamol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs which, in the long term, would cause hearing loss.While stress that increases blood pressure can cause tinnitus, physical activity, stimulating blood circulation, preserves the good health of our ears.

In any case, if you have whistles, buzzing, if you suffer from the slightest hearing loss or you can no longer follow conversations as before, consult an ENT that will make an audiogram to check the frequencies and sound levelsheard, as well as, in some cases an intelligibility test.

Change diet to heal the laryngo-pharyngeal reflux

Between 2019 and 2021, three French and Belgian university hospitals invited their patients with a laryngo-pharyngeal reflux problem to follow a diet mainly with sugars without sugar, rich in protein, rich in alkaline plant products and comprising a minimumfat.74 % of patients noted real improvement after six weeks of diet and were still 54 % to feel a beneficial effect after twelve weeks.20 % reported a total improvement.A very encouraging result compared to the classic treatment with inhibitors of the proton pump (omeprazole) whose effectiveness varies from 17 to 87 % and which especially in the long term presents risks of undesirable effects.

My little stroke

On November 17, 2018, Margot Turcat, a 33 -year -old teacher, sees her life completely upset by a blood clot that brutally will obstruct a brain artery.It is the stroke that will leave it with disabilities.Designer, she takes her pencils in order to share, with sometimes lightness and a certain humor, her difficult experienced.She recounts her long journey of rehabilitation and resilience when she has to face the eyes of others.An overwhelming book that reminds us that the stroke does not affect the others.