Monday, December 6, 2010

Beltone Deaf Aids And Supplies

By Owen Jones


Do you know how your ears work? I am sorry to say that not many people do, which may be why so many people, especially young people, risk their hearing so frequently. The problem with hearing is that, people seldom lose it over night. Typically, protracted exposure to loud noise will not have a discernable effect until several years or even several decades afterwards.

The outer ear is there only there to channel sound waves into the inner ear. This is the reason why people cup their hands to their ears when they cannot hear something well - in effect, your hand is increasing the size of your outer ear, meaning that it collects more sound waves. These sound waves are then funneled down your ear canal to your eardrum.

The sound waves vibrate tiny bones, which in turn causes fluid in the cochlear to flow about. This triggers thousands of tiny hairs which create electrical charges which are picked up by nerve endings. These are passed on to your brain which interprets them as sound. As you can guess, there are lots of things that can go wrong in this process, which could impair your hearing.

Doctors and scientists have been aware of this and more for decades and Beltone, which started up in 1940, have been using this knowledge to create hearing aids for the benefit of the deaf and hard of hearing. They now manufacture some of the most advanced hearing aids on the market including the latest digital devices.

Beltone make a wide range of hearing aids or listening systems. Some of their devices are for the slightly deaf, may be those people who have trouble zeroing in on one sound in a multitude of sounds to the profoundly deaf. There are so many degrees of deafness, which have come about for so many reasons, that there have to be a lot of options.

Beltone has all the bases covered. Hearing aids are clearly extremely useful, but they are not always that comfortable to go to sleep with, particularly the behind-the-ear-devices (BTE), which can lead to a problem if you are expecting to be woken up by an alarm clock. Similarly, wake up calls over the telephone are quite useless.

Beltone has the solution in a portable alarm clock which not only has a strobe light to notify the light sleeper, but also incorporates a vibrator that can be put under your pillow so that even heavy sleepers will be woken up on time.

Batteries are an important part of any hearing aid and Beltone supply cut-rate replacement batteries for hearing aids. They can be bought in packets of four or boxes of forty-two either in local malls or from their web site.

If you are on the look out for hearing aid equipment, you obviously have to take advice from the experts like your physician and perhaps the local society for the deaf, but Beltone has such a long history and good track record that it should be on any short list when you go looking for deaf aids or deaf aids equipment and accessories.




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