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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- Audiologist Dr. Emily Taylor answers the internet's burning questions about hearing, ears, and more. Why do we have earwax? How do hearing aids works? How are you even supposed to clean your ear canals? Dr. Taylor answers all these questions and much more!
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Maybe it's because I know she's an audiologist but she annunciates everything beautifully and speaks with an even sound level. Like she clearly works with the hearing impared to naturally say every sound in a word to be heard as easily as possible
I was about to say the same thing!
Enunciate
She’s also very attractive
It’s not just her enunciation that is extremely beautiful! 😁 Those eyes!
Simp
Not calling this "Hearing Aid" was a huge missed opportunity
I agree 😂
ummm......
Sure, dad.
OK Boomer?! 😎😂
@@bb3ca201?..
She talks maddeningly clear. I love it haha
Only if you are speaking in her accent. If subtitles weren’t there, i wouldn’t understand a lot of things
@@Lampey22 I don't have the same accent but I can hear it perfectly, what's your accent?
@@wefo4833 English is not my mother language so my accent is my language’s accent
@@Lampey22 Dude …
@@Lampey22 “This person is only speaking English clearly enough for English speakers to understand.” Homie that’s how language works.
I’m so glad she talked about how hearing aids are more complicated than just a mic and speaker, as someone who has had two of them since I’ve been four I’ve had to explain that so many times (also having automatic Bluetooth ears is super cool)
I have them too! She used my exact kind!
I have had them since I was 3 and totally relate to this. Strongly considering just sending this video to people 😂
That is pretty awesome can you play music through them?
yeah we are totally cool with our bluetooth ears we had airpods before airpods were a thing.
As a previous wearer of hearing aids (now coclear implant) I know exactly what you mean.
My doctor also told me that our ears are self-cleaning. But when I pressured her for some off-the-record advice, she finally conceded that if I really.. REALLY.. felt the need to clean inside my ear canal, I could go ahead and use my elbows. I just adore my doctor!
how?😅
@@michael-john4954 That was the point of her joke.
Why are you spewing out off-the-record advice ?
@@michaelashley2855 try cleaning your ear with your elbow. It’s what they don’t want you to know 😈
Now imagine somebody with hypermobility actually does this.
I wish everyone, including myself, could speak this clearly all the time
As someone who has been to many loud concerts and been in infantry, combat, and is now nearing 60, you should wear hearing protection whenever you can, same as sun protection for skin and sun glasses for your eyes.
100% this
Unless you're going to the beach or are working long hours under the sun, there really isn't any need to use sunscreen. I see people spraying that stuff anytime they go out under the open sky for like 5 minutes nowadays. Way too much marketing being pushed by the cosmetic companies.
sunglasses are good for your eyes? can you elaborate
Well yeah hearing protection is good and all, but aint no way im wearing it to a concert
@@kvassman_ as someone who used to perform in concerts very frequently, wear hearing protection. the professionals do it for a reason, and if you enjoy going to concerts you should wear it too. When I was performing, I did not wear it. I am 22 and am going to have nearly complete hearing loss by my late 40's to early 50's because of it.
About earplugs at concerts - there are a variety of frequency-balanced earplugs that protect your hearing while preserving the sound quality of the music (Eargasm and Hearos are a couple of examples). I HIGHLY recommend them!
Flare is also great!
High fidelity earplugs right ?
20-30 years ago there was nothing but full blocks.
There's no excuse these days to not protect your ears with something that can actually increase one's enjoyment of the music.
@@ALAPINO yeah I mean concerts sound BETTER with hearing protection! It sounds deeper and also blocks the crowd noise around you.
drumming earplugs are a lifesaver. they filter out the super-loud noises, but still keep really good quality sound
The way I was hyped to to this!! I was born with hearing loss, so I had to see MANY audiologist in my life so far. People like her made my life so much easier. Her talking about hearing aids and clearing up misconceptions or even spreading knowledge made me smile ear to ear.
Aww thanks for the positive feedback!!
#a11y ❤️
@@Dr_Earwax 🥶 But I don't.
I really don't appreciate your profession pushing cochlear implants onto my people, treating Deafness as a disease rather than a language and a community.
@@guyman1570 no one should push anything on any one so I am sorry to hear you have felt like that in the past. I definitely recognize the Deaf community and know that hearing loss is not considered a disability for everyone. Thank you for sharing your perspective!
Eat to ear 😂😂😂😂😂
Brilliant, well-spoken, well-enunciated, and a welcoming and animated face. Great video! I learned a lot.
it's pronounced tĭ-nī′təs
@@nihilistzen6133 huh ?
Otherwise it is a great video and she is a great presenter. But she did flub that word.
Indeed, she seems nice but her uptalking is off the charts.
Animated face is a sign of life
I am someone who has suffered with tinnitus and when I went to an audiologist about it, it turned out I had an additional hearing problem I wasn’t aware of and the subsequent hearing aids I got do indeed silence the ringing. It’s wonderful!
As a hearing care professional, I totally agree with everything that has been said here. All information is briefly explained and is in line with current audiological practice. It was a pure pleasure to watch this video. Well done! Hope to see more! :)
Thanks! Glad I accurately represented our profession!!
As a non hearing care professional, I also totally agree.
Question to you
Are in ear headphones bad for ears? I'm surprised this was never asked in the video.
As one too, not 100% she showed the wrong bones at the beginning. She was talking about the ossicular chain and how they’re the smallest bones in the body (TRUE) but she showed the semicircular ducts. The rest seems very accurate to my knowledge
@@Metamine0 it’s actually not a matter of how you listen to music, it’s how LOUD you listen to it. Playing music at a decent level with earbuds isn’t any worse than on speakera
As someone who has severe tinnitus, I listen to these videos to help not focus on it -- and this one was perfect! So well done and I wish I had such an awesome audiologist.
The dad joke ("tenth of a bel') is actually correct. The unit was named after Alexander Graham Bell, and the "tenth" part of it proved to be the most useful for a scale of intensity.
Yeah, I thought she would bring it up.
@@ghostderazgriz It probably got cut out if she did say it
The trouble is, a Bell or deci Bell is not used by itself to measure anything, as it's just a ratio of 2 values, i.e. a relative unit of measurement. One needs to also specify what the 2 values measure, e.g. dBW, dBm, dBA, dBSP etc.
The way she speaks and displays herself really is infectious, lovely
How nice
I feel more this kind of smile feels trained/fake/forced and it's a bit weird.
But that's cultural I guess as in the US there isn't a difference between being friendly, professional or polite. So people are forced to smile so they don't come off as "rude".
Honestly, my main take away is that I've been saying "tinnitus" wrong my whole life.
It's correct either way, I just discovered. It is more of the British pronunciation.
What?
Don't worry, both pronunciations are correct!
@@gus473 could you say that again? i can't hear you
@@screeeeeeemttv must be his tinnitus
She is such an excellent communicator. Her annunciation and clarity in speech is phenomenal. Not to mention she has an infectious smile and a face that is easy on the eyes.
Simp lol
Try again in a year.
As someone who has had hearing loss since age 13 (now age 45), I really appreciate this video! I usually have to watch everything with captions because my hearing loss mainly affects speech. Like I can hear people speaking but I can't make out the words most of the time, hence the need for closed captioning. But this was so well enunciated I didn't even need the captions so I'm very grateful for that! Made me feel normal for once.
I'd highly recommend looking into hearing aids in your situation. You'll probably find them amazingly useful 👍
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Maybe look up that Ted Talk about Auditory Processing Disorder. It sounds just like what you're describing.
Wearing ear plugs at a concert actually makes the sound so MUCH clearer !!
Agreed!!!
Confirmed
Yessiree bob
Loved this as someone who previously studied to be an audiologist in the past. Also just love all of the "expert answers" videos on this channel. Thanks WIRED and Dr. Emily!
My genius mother once told me confidently that earwax has zero purpose. When I was a child she used to make me lay on my side, and she'd hold my head down while she poured rubbing alcohol in my ears and shoved q-tips in there. This caused problems for me like double hearing, and everything sounding weird and metallic, which as a music lover was rather traumatic. She never connected that it was because of her.
That's so sad... it really bugs me when people can be so confidently wrong
@@chlorhex6785 Unfortunately the examples of her behavior get so much worse, I consider this one quite tame.
Oy vay
@@tvtitlechampion3238 Amen
Jesus I'm so sorry that happened to you. That must have been horrible.
I hope your ears and hearing didn't suffer any permanent damage.
The way that she speaks is A MA Z I N G, like I cannot believe how well she speaks, so clearly and so well spoken! I was absolutely mesmerised by all of her responses. I loved her beyond words. Nothing but the best for this doctor! Loved her!
Consonants: A+
End of word vowels: C for Californiuuuuh
It’s because she doesn’t do the stupid upspeak
I’m also incredibly jealous of her teeth
This was super fascinating, although the part about the ear drum being able to self repair was the most surprising to me.
This has confused me for some time. I learn of a person who had burst ear drums yet they’re not deaf or even apparently significantly hearing impaired.
Makes sense now.
Yeah, my eardrum burst when I was a kid and it repaired itself.
it's a body tissue. most of our tissues can heal. it shouldn't be toooo surprising. but yeah i also didn't know until she said it!
This answered a problem I'm been wondering about for a while, my ability to hear with background noise is trash and I've wondered why, or if it's just my perspective. Excellent to have this explained so clearly!
That one about how the hearing test works was particularly interesting to me. As I've gotten older I've explicitly had a harder time hearing things over background noise, which yeah, apparently means I'm experiencing hearing loss. Crap.
Go get your ears checked. it could change your life
Well, it happens to all of us, so don't get too down on yourself. My speech pathology prof told me that the younger generations are trending towards experiencing hearing loss increasingly early in life.
@@10sDPR It's the ear buds they wear, many of them don't have volume governors so they crank up the volume to physiologically damaging levels because they truly don't realize the danger. Next thing you know, they've got hearing loss and/or tinnitus.
7:30 i had my left ear completely blocked and ear wax softening drops didn't help too. when I went to the doc she just got a big syringe with water and cleared it. It felt uncomfortable but not painful but it felt sooooo good after she cleaned it.
My ears are not blocked but just a little congested and I think I'm going to try the wax drops. Wish me luck! (I went to the doctor twice a few years ago where they unblocked my ear with the water syringe too, which worked well for me especially because my ear wasn't sensitive/hurting beforehand.)
Wait how can I find an audiologist as knowledgeable as this one?!
Wait !
I would have loved if she'd had discussed Audio Processing Disorder and how to help with that
i love all of these videos, especially the medical ones
This lady is clearly very knowledgeable in her field. Sound and frequency is so important to us as humans, and we’ve definitely lost a lot of that throughout the millennia.
We also have much more music and much wider variety of it today than ever before. So I really don't know what you are even talking about
We lost sound and frequency!
What???????
gibberish
This is the part where you go "something something 440hz"
I didn't know that anxiety and stress can be a cause of tinnitus but it makes so much sense :(
I knew that ears clean themselves but I really hate having to clean my earphones every time I use them 😂
She is absolutely gorgeous and so personable. I'd love to see her answer more questions in future videos!match.
I'd love it if she used the props a bit more to explain some of these parts of the ear in a more visual way.
I'm gonna be honest I literally had no idea an audiologist was a thing or maybe I just never thought there was a word for the study of hearing. Anyway after this video I have alot more appreciation for ears/hearing and the study of it. Actually quite interesting!
She's so lovely and intelligent. I could listen to her talk for hours.
Play this video over and over
So many interesting facts. I love your explanations and knowledge.
My family has congenital hearing loss. Starts in our 30’s & gets worse as time goes. I remember my dad getting his hearing aids & being startled badly by how loud my brother & I had had to speak so he could hear us. I’ve had hearing aids for about 13 yrs now. I’ve had constant tinnitus for so long, I can tune it out; the hearing aids don’t block it but if I’m listening to something, my brain tunes the ringing out.
For some reason, though, my mother -despite living with my almost deaf dad, knowing his almost deaf father & totally deaf aunt- still thinks I can hear her when she talks behind me or if she whispers. Why do you whisper, m’am? I can’t hear you and Dad can’t hear you at all anyway, just speak normally!
Are you sure she's whispering or perhaps another level increase is needed on the hearing aid?
Great information. I've unfortunately had to learn about the inner ear due to vertigo, and some speech therapy I had as a kid. I wish I had done more with the speech therapy, but I guess I did something right because I can tell when I get tired I am really hard to understand. I assume that means I am trying harder with full energy. This is a good reminder to try even harder.
Back in high school, one of my classmates was placed into a psych facility because they said he had auditory hallucinations. It turned out it was nothing more than tinnitus all along. The entire event was traumatic for him. They kept increasing his medication dosage and the sounds wouldn’t go away. Finally it was an audiologist who diagnosed him correctly.
this episode should have been called hearing aid
What? 😉✌🏼
Yes!!
I hope she does a second video! I don't have hearing loss, but I do definitely have trouble discerning different consonant sounds when people are talking to me, so I hear them say something slightly different than what they're actually saying cause the consonant sounds get a little muffled so I have to have people repeat things. Is that a hearing problem or an auditory processing problem in my brain?
Get a hearing test first. Difficulty with consonants is a common problem with high frequency hearing loss.
@@believe53787 thanks!
Go. Get. Your. Ears. Checked.
Bro... She's amazing! Loved this one.
I love when passions extend into characteristics lol a lot of these support videos have that unique spark
Had a teacher who always said not to put anything in your ear larger than your elbow. I took it very literally and tried to figure out how I’d be able to get my elbow even close to going into my ear.
😂😂😂
Wearing earplugs to concerts will not ruin your concert experience, all it does is make it easier to hear the singer over the instruments and the background noise. Plus your ears don't ring for 3 days after you go to the rock concert.
3 days if you're lucky. Many people have it for life. Venues, in my opinion, are criminally destroying the people's hearing. I just cannot understand how can they operate volumes around 100dB up to 140dB and there is no disclaimer?? Many people don't know about the risks and get permanent tinnitus just by going to one event
An earplug designed for loud music is even better. I use Vibes but there are others. And the music sounds better and clearer. As a musician I can attest to this
I am in love with her little facial expressions. So amazing.
Truly amazing
Simply amazing
Much appreciate a new video!
This topic is great, and the professional is awesome.
I've had two hearing aids for years and honestly, I loved watching this. She's so educational
Thanks for the positive feedback! What brand of hearing aids are you rocking?!
@@Dr_Earwax Mine are Cochlear!
When I was a regular in the hospitals audiology department, I did three tests. A pressure test, the beep test and a vocal test where a word would be played and you repeat the word back
Great job, Dr Taylor!
Hearing the word cochlea in a different accent is amusing. In Australia, the way we pronounce it is heavier on the COC part and added an R on the end of pronouncing it. So it comes out as Coc-Lear.
yeah same in england!!
I went to get my hearing checked at a clinic, and they did that beep test thing, but apparently the machine was broken. Everyone was mad an me for saying I couldn’t hear anything. A week later my mom got a call saying they found the issue, and to come back. The clinic closed two months later…
Fun fact about me: Because of an ear infection when I was 2, I no longer have an eardrum and no ossicles in my right ear. My dad described the infection as the effects of cancer, but without the cancer. The only way I can hear in my right ear is because I have a titanium rod in it.
Otosclerosis?
Great information, thanks for the helpful content. I wear amplifiers to overpower otosclerosis hear loss.
Wired should do speech-language pathologists talk about accents, accent modification, and how people learn to talk.
"This is a model of the ear let's bring it here(hear)"
THAT'S WHAT I CALL MF BARS!!!
The samsung buds have an ambient sound function that makes it so u can hear things around you and you can change the intensity even to one that's purposely higher than normal hearing
Really educative, thank you.
Wanting to add to this about the ear candling. a decade ago, i had the ear bubble feeling that would not go away. I did what everybody does with a problem like this, i googled remedy. One of the selection said "light a cigarette and stick in your ear. The difference in pressure will help to remove the bubble". I didn't do it, but I was talking to my Guild War buddies I feel bad for those who believe it and try it out.
Another based Guild Wars player moment
I wish more people could communicate this well.
I wish people would focus on LISTENING & COMPREHENSION more...
The background noise thing can also be about processing!!!! Perfect or even highly sensitive hearing + the background thing= usually neurodivergent.
As an Audiology Graduate student, this video and her explanations for concepts/questions were *chefs kiss*. Definitely going to use this as an example when explaining these concepts during community outreach!! ❤
I've never seen a doctor about it but I'm 27 and I definitely have hearing loss in one ear for as long as I can remember, roommate in university has a noise machine for at night, if I was laying with my good ear to the pillow I'd hear nothing, if I turned around with my bad ear to the pillow I'd be able to hear the noise machine
Time to go see an audiologist…
Count your blessings
I wish you had a chance to talk about bone conduction headphones and Cochlear BAHA (bone anchored hearing assistance) and similar products. I had sudden hearing loss in one ear and ended up with a BAHA. Years after my surgery, a variety of great quality bone conduction headphones came out that allowed me to hear in stereo again. I particularly like the Aftershokz products.
(Edited to correct - This is a production issue by the video editors not Dr Taylor see below) As a random small technical gripe when she mentions the ossicles, she picks up the wrong part. What she has in her hand at that point is the vestibular system, the cochlea and semicircular canals. The ossicles are actually attached to the back of the eardrum on that apparatus.
yeeessss I just commented this
@@ajriffic I have a cochlear implant so I'm sensitive to this stuff 😂
Production error….
Thanks so much for the info. It's nice to be refreshed, plus you are super nice.
Thanks!!
Great vid! I always scored worse in the beep tests than my classmates, and I'm only in my 20s & need people to speak WAY louder than the background or i have to rely on reading their lips. Definitely gonna cop those ear plugs...
Very professional answers
And so cheerfully personable
I get very strong "Minnie Driver" vibes, especially when she uses her California accent.
I don't put things in my ear to clean them, i do it cause it feels so good
People give my funny looks when I buy a big pack of q tips like I'm sticking them in my ears all day. I use them to clean guns people! Give me a break!
When you find the right spot
please dont to that. it will damage your ears.
On top of a very informative video... The watch color is matching the scrubs. Priceless! 😊
this was the video I always needed
A decibel is, in fact, 1/10 of a bel. A bel is a large unit though, so decibel is more convenient to use. same thing happens with Farads (capacitors).
I was born with tinnitus.
I discovered at 31 people don't hear a constant cathode tube beep in their ear.
I got tested and my whole ear complex is fine; that means my hearing cortex is beeping for itself.
Is there ANYTHING that can be done?
I have some moderate tinnitus too and made the same discovery as you when I was well over 50. There isn't really much you can do unless you already qualify for hearing aids (10:50 onwards). I was told there are special pillows that make a regular low-key noise (can be configured) for bed, if you can't fall asleep because your tinnitus keeps you awake. My tinnitus rarely is too loud for me to fall asleep, but when it is, I select a brown-noise YT video, or, what I like even more, a video with sounds of sea waves. During the day, having low background music helps me. I have found, however, that the best way to cope with my tinnitus is to become friends with it. I treat it like a mildly annoying cute puppy that won't leave me alone 🙂 Whether that approach works for you is very much dependent on the tinnitus and your patience.
If you decide to do a part 2, can you talk about hearing loss associated with earphone use at the 6k hz? I do auditory research, and we see it a lot with our younger participants.
I did not know a video about hearing could be that interesting!
Ear plugs should be mandated at every concert. The musicians are wearing them, imagine if they didn't, they could no longer tour. Good ear plugs also don't sound bad, they just mute the overall level of sound rather than taking all the bass away
Another great presentation, great questions and answers, thanks Dr. Taylor.
My grandmother got a cochlear implant 2 years ago and she described it exactly like you did very tinny and in the beginning hard to understand but therapy helped a lot
My mom is an audiologist and i do sound for film, this woman knows her stuff
People and particularly phone manufacturers need to understand that not all headphones take the same amount of power to get equally loud. So the person saying they need their headphones "jacked all the way up" might just have an inefficient headphone.
And your phone automatically turning your volume down and warning you, when your headphone is just so inefficient the phone can barely make them play normally at max volume is maddening.
Sounds to me like you're playing the music WAAAAY too loud! You shouldn't be getting close to max, especially not for prolonged time. You're going to have tinnitus before you're 30.
The way she talks so smooth and clear with a beautiful smile ❤
12:35 I took a neuro A&P class last semester and I can’t remember the name of the maneuver 😭😭 auditory system is so fascinating
Epley maneuver 😊
Oh my... I'd agree with anything she said. 😳 Also this is seriously the most thorough I've heard anyone answer any of these questions on here. Very well done!
Really interesting info... I have tinnitus and it can really affect your quality of life.
Can you guys make a video with an endometriosis expert? There is so much misinformation out there about it, making it so hard to get good treatment. Some of the experts in the US include Dr Sinervo, Dr Arrington, Dr Albee, Dr Nezhat, Dr Vidali, Dr Mitroi, Dr Redwine, amongst others.
@wired Yes, please talk about femine issues that have been historically overlooked in medicine.
@wired I second this. This is an area of medical health that gets systematically overlooked all the time.
its worth mentioning wearing headphones for long stretches especially the in-ear type increases bacteria by up to 800% however you can get in-ear headphones that have a hole on the middle of the ear bud to enable the user to hear their surroundings better, a side bonus of a hole in the earbud will be no bacteria build up
This was such an insightful video! Shoutout Dr.Emily!
Kind of makes me want to have an audiologist appointment. PS This is awesome but also what is your curly hair routine?!! Omg
Haha! You might be the only person who actually understands what curly hair is! Everyone thought my hair was wet and fresh out of the shower! I use controlled chaos shampoo and conditioner and then Pantene pro-v mousse !
Right! She has amazing hair!
Perfect annunciation, and smiles with every word. Even her eyes smile.
I think I have difficulty filtering the noise, but also my ears are sensitive. Some days I put in earplugs to cut the noise, but I notice that it becomes super easy to understand people, even when they are being quieter than normal. ._.
Like she says at 5:10 I watched this video with my hearing aids connected to the Bluetooth on my computer! Having hearing aids with bluetooth is seriously the best thing ever because it even amplifies the frequencies I have trouble hearing when in the past I had to take out my hearing aids to use headphones that didn't, so now listening to music is so much clearer and I can actually do phone calls now.
I could listen to her all day!
ps - good job with the chapter titles, wired lolol
lol that’s actually RUclips’s auto chaptering system :p
@@atticusnari 😂
In elementary school there was a girl that would go around the playground and scream as loud and high as she could in people’s ears. I was her victim one day, and I lost some hearing in my right ear. I can barely hear people if they’re on my right side :(
that's actually very tragic that girl should be disciplined
@@benjaminjr8818 She probably was eventually. It was pretty clear that the girl had special needs, so it was probably tough for teachers to understand how to discipline her. It was a few decades ago so there wasn’t as much awareness.
8:00 I actually wore foam earplugs to a concert recently and it made hearing and actually listening to the music easier and more enjoyable. It made everything clearer and painless
I gotta say this is amazing series you guys keep doing educational videos like this and this woman is beautiful 😍🔥🍃❤️❤️❤️
I have eczema, and it extends to the inside of my ears. My wax is exceptionally dry and more like sand than wax. The itch can get so bad it drives me insane.
I can't believe this wasn't called "Hearing Aid" instead of "Hearing Support"
Omg y’all
Have had over a dozen surgeries on my ears and this is the most I’ve ever learned
And as someone who has had a cochlear infection- ear infections are brutal
I used to be able to walk into a room and know whether there was a computer monitor on. This was in the days of CRT's. I mentioned to my dad that I couldn't hear it any more, and he explained what Dr. Taylor did about the loss of high-frequency hearing. (I was only in my 20's.)
I'm fully convinced she'd be the only person who could fix my hearing problems. Where do I book a consultation?