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Hearing Loss and Diabetes
Diabetes can affect your health in a number of detrimental ways, but you may not be aware of how it can affect your hearing.
A good way to protect your hearing is to protect the overall health of your whole body. This means healthy eating and healthy exercise.
Diabetes can affect your health in a number of detrimental ways, but you may not be aware of how it can affect your hearing.
Hearing loss is twice as common in people with uncontrolled type 1 or 2 diabetes, and that figure is 14% worse in diabetic women. While research is still continuing, studies have shown that there is a clear connection between hearing loss and diabetes in people as young as 30 years of age.How diabetes can affect hearing
- Maintain good control of your sugar intake
- Take prescribed medication, where necessary
- Eat a healthy diet of controlled portions
- Stay active and exercise regularly
- Keep your weight in check
- Get your hearing checked regularly
The symptoms of hearing damage, whether via diabetes or other means, can be slow to reveal themselves. But as always, prevention is better than cure, and the best way to maintain healthy hearing is by doing everything you can to ensure a healthy you, inside and out.Diabetes related hearing damage is a complication which few people would think to consider, but one which can be lessened by getting diabetes under control, or ensuring that you don’t become susceptible to diabetes if you have a family history.
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