Who doesn’t love getting a good bargain? But you need to be careful and be aware of small details when it comes to your health.

We know, it can be confusing, the names are rather similar, but hearing aids and hearing amplifiers are not the same. And your general hearing and health could suffer severe consequences if you make the wrong decision about this.

What is a hearing amplifier?

A little device that goes inside of your ear, a hearing amplifier raises the volume of outside sound. Technically classified as personal sound amplification products by the government, these devices tend to be very simple and one-dimensional. The volume of the world is essentially cranked up.

These devices are generally not suggested for individuals with moderate to severe hearing loss because of their one-size-fits-all strategy.

Hearing amplifier are not hearing aids

It begins to become fairly obvious that hearing aids aren’t the same as hearing amplification devices when you recognize that amplifiers are not recommended for people with even moderate hearing loss. Obviously, hearing aids are appropriate for individuals who cope with hearing loss.

Both hearing aids and hearing amplifiers have the ability to increase volumes. But one of these devices has a much higher level of amplification technology and sophistication.

• Hearing aids can be tuned to your environment. There are a number of factors that will impact the specific acoustics of a space. These adjustments can even happen automatically with some modern hearing aids. A dedicated device or smartphone can calibrate hearing aids that don’t do it automatically. By making small adjustments to the settings of your hearing aid, you’re able to hear better in a wider variety of environments, meaning there will be fewer places you wish to avoid.
• Hearing aids are made to pick out and boost certain frequencies of sound. Because hearing loss often progresses frequency by frequency. Frequencies at the higher and lower end of the spectrum are usually the first to go. Hearing aids work to fill in the gaps in your hearing rather than just making everything louder. For individuals who have hearing loss, this selective approach is more effective.
• Selecting and amplifying speech is one of the main functions of a hearing aid. Because communication is so essential in our lives and also because of the uneven way hearing loss develops, this is an essential function. Because of this, hearing aid makers have invested monumental resources into enhancing the clarity of speech above everything else. In order to make sure voices come through clearly even in a noisy room, advanced technology and algorithms are packed inside of modern hearing aids.

Simply put, these capabilities are vital elements of effectively treating hearing loss. Usually, personal amplifiers don’t have these abilities.

The right deal for your ears

Untreated hearing loss can cause cognitive decline, not to mention increasingly diminished hearing abilities. With amplifiers, you’re very likely to do more harm to your hearing because the device doesn’t differentiate frequencies and will most likely turn everything up to unsafe levels. And that’s not good for anyone.

Unless your hearing loss is being caused by earwax, hearing aids and some surgeries are the only authorized treatment options for hearing loss at this time. You won’t save any money in the long run by neglecting to get treatment for your hearing loss. General healthcare costs have been shown to increase by over 40% with untreated hearing loss. The good news is, there are affordable options. Just ask us.

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References

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hearing-loss/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20373077