How to test your hearing if your hearing is not good?

The purpose of hearing test is to understand the degree, nature and lesion site of hearing loss. There are many kinds of examination methods, one is to observe the patient's subjective judgment, that is, the so-called main observation listening method, such as whisper examination, stopwatch examination, tuning fork examination, audiometer examination and so on. , but

This method often affects the correct audiometric conclusion because of many factors such as young age and abnormal mental state. The other is that patients can objectively measure their hearing function without subjective judgment of their response to acoustic stimulation, which is called objective audiometry. The results are more accurate and reliable, and there are the following types:

① Understand listening by observing the unconditioned reflexes (such as blinking, turning head, body movements, etc.) caused by sound stimulation. );

② Check the hearing by establishing conditioned reflex or habitual response (such as skin resistance audiometry and stereo audiometry). );

③ Use biophysical methods to check hearing (such as acoustic impedance-admittance audiometry);

④ Check hearing with neurobiological methods (such as cochlear electrogram and auditory brainstem response).

Traditional listening test methods:

1. Pure tone audiometry. According to the doctor's simple instructions, put on headphones and listen to different sounds in high and low frequencies in turn, usually about 10 minutes;

2. Acoustic immittance. Just plug in earplugs to test. Simple and quick.

The cerumen in the ear canal should be cleaned before the examination.