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Katie Woolf spoke with Top End Health Service’s Hearing Services Outreach Program Senior Audiologist Salimon Joseph · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mix
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  Speaker 1: one O four nine dot com a you.
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  Speaker 2: This week is Hearing Awareness Week.
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  Speaker 3: It runs from the first to the seventh of March,
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  Speaker 3: and it's also World Hearing Day.
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  Speaker 2: Well today and.
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  Speaker 3: Joining me on the line to tell us a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more about well ear health and some of the
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  Speaker 3: different things we need to be keeping an eye out
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  Speaker 3: for top end health services Hearing Services Outreach Program. Senior
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  Speaker 3: audiologist Salomon Joseph. Good morning to you, Solomon.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning Kitty, and thank you for invading me to
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  Speaker 1: your radio show. Oh with Hearing Bitch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, World Hearing Day.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great you know, it's obviously a great time
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  Speaker 3: to have you on the show and to talk about
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  Speaker 3: Hearing Awareness Week as well. As I understand it, it's
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  Speaker 3: almost half, so forty nine percent of childhood hearing loss
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  Speaker 3: is actually preventable.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely because the middliar problem is the root cause of
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  Speaker 1: here problem. Especially in Northern Territory. We have thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: of our population our Indigenous, the first Australian our living
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  Speaker 1: in remote communities and the children having significant milliar disorders.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a midliar problem or it is media perforation,
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  Speaker 1: tibanic membrane perforation or pass in the middle part of
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  Speaker 1: the year. So so many middleiar problems. It can be
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  Speaker 1: due to the living condition, as you know, the living
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  Speaker 1: condition and the overcrowding and smoking in the houses, and
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  Speaker 1: so many factors are contributing. There's high prevalence of middle
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  Speaker 1: ear diseases in indigenous population.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and Solomon, I know even myself with one of
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  Speaker 3: my children, they seem to suffer from a lot of
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  Speaker 3: ear infections in their younger years.
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  Speaker 2: What are some of the things that.
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  Speaker 3: We can do really as parents to try and and
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  Speaker 3: prevent some you know, some of the can concerns that
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  Speaker 3: we have with hearing loss and other issues with ears.
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  Speaker 1: Katie, One simple thing every child need to do is
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  Speaker 1: do the nose blowing. If children do nose blowing every day,
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  Speaker 1: that will clear their middle part of the ear. There
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  Speaker 1: is a tube that is connecting to our back of
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  Speaker 1: the throat. It's called a station tube. So sometimes that blocks.
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  Speaker 1: You will notice when we take off on a plane
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  Speaker 1: and when we land, you will get a block feeling.
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  Speaker 1: So we swallow something, we swallow over saliva or when
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  Speaker 1: we choose something automatically. This station tube opens up and
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  Speaker 1: that airate. So if children at school, okay, every child
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  Speaker 1: or a small children exprests zero to five. If they
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  Speaker 1: can do nose blowing every day, that helps. And the
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  Speaker 1: other problem in today's world we face is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of children are bombarded with very loud noises. So loud
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  Speaker 1: noises will create hearing problem. And according to National Acoustic
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  Speaker 1: Liborties of Australia it is a research division of Hearing Australia.
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  Speaker 1: They do research and eighty five disabled. The sound above
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  Speaker 1: eighty five disable is dangerous to our hearing. So we
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  Speaker 1: need to use ear plug in a very loud situation.
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  Speaker 1: I travel almost thirty weeks to the remote communities and
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  Speaker 1: our small planes is that I think many Territorians travel
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  Speaker 1: on small noisy planes and everyone need to wear ye
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  Speaker 1: ear plug and ear muff otherwise they will be damaging
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  Speaker 1: their inner part of the ear and slimon.
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  Speaker 3: What about the use of headphones is that something that
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  Speaker 3: can you know that can impact our hearing negatively as well?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely right, because the earphone, we don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: sound is bombarded into the ear and we all bornd
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  Speaker 1: with a two cochlea you know one Cochlea has got
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand hairsels. When we bord and the hair cells
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  Speaker 1: are we cannot see with our eyes, but they are
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  Speaker 1: micro small. And what happens is when we bombarded with
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  Speaker 1: very loud noises, the hair cells will die, that will
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  Speaker 1: damage and there is no medicine to regrow these hair cells.
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  Speaker 1: That is why the new generation the hearing loss problems
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  Speaker 1: will be more onto the new generation because of the
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  Speaker 1: bombardment of very loud music. People need to rest in themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They have to control how much sound they are putting in.
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  Speaker 3: Goodness, nay, probably something I need to keep an eye
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  Speaker 3: on in hairs element with my headphones up very loud
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  Speaker 3: every day, so I might have to keep a close
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  Speaker 3: eye on that absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing we need to remember as a
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  Speaker 1: health professional ordeologist not only territorials. Tomorrow morning, I may
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  Speaker 1: wake up with hearing laws in one year or in
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  Speaker 1: both years. That is a clinical emergency. Many people don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They will delay the doctor's consultation or audiology consultation in
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  Speaker 1: that particular situation. But we have got only one week time.
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  Speaker 1: So if any terrritorian not is a sudden hearing loss,
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  Speaker 1: they need to present themselves to an emergency department the
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  Speaker 1: nearest hospital, and most likely the EEND specialists will prescribe
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  Speaker 1: strongs to roid treatment and most likely there is a
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  Speaker 1: chance of getting okay the hearing back. But if they
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  Speaker 1: missed that one week, yes, that hearing laws become permanent.
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  Speaker 1: Octified Solomon, we.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to have to wrap up. But before we.
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  Speaker 3: Do, if there is anybody out there this morning listening
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  Speaker 3: maybe concerns they'd either they or their children have got
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  Speaker 3: some concerns with their hearing or their ear health. What
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  Speaker 3: are the best steps to take?
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  Speaker 1: Please ask their GP for an audiologist consultation. And luckily
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  Speaker 1: in not than Territory, people who doubt about their hearing
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  Speaker 1: or difficulty to communicate, if they have difficulty to understand
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  Speaker 1: other people they need to they can self proffer too.
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  Speaker 1: There is a proficient ordeology team here in cas Plaza
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  Speaker 1: and at ourdh Royalalbin Hospital there are two ordiologists there.
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  Speaker 1: Here at kash Plaza there are seven to eight ordiologists
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  Speaker 1: working here. We are here to help Territorian's hearing well.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what you guys do a phenomenal job.
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  Speaker 3: I've actually a few years ago had to bring my
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  Speaker 3: little boy there to see the staff at kas Plaza.
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  Speaker 2: They do a great job.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you've said, anybody out there listening, if they
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  Speaker 3: are concerned, go and see GP in the first instance,
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  Speaker 3: or they can go down the other path that you've
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  Speaker 3: just explained. Salomon Joseph, I really appreciate you having a
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  Speaker 3: chat with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you very.
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  Speaker 1: Much, Katie for this wonderful opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 3: That is Salomon Joseph there, who is the top end
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  Speaker 3: Health service Hearing Services Outreach Program Senior audiologist, and well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's quite fascinating. I think you'd have to
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  Speaker 3: say some of us may be even experiencing some issues
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  Speaker 3: with our hearing without even realizing, and it's something we've
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  Speaker 3: got to keep a close eye on. I was saying
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  Speaker 3: to Ronnie, my producer, yesterday, that my little boy used
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  Speaker 3: to suffer from from ear infections quite often, and then
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  Speaker 3: when we took him to the audiologist, we did realize
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  Speaker 3: that he was having some hearing issues. Luckily they were
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  Speaker 3: related to the infections, but you know, if you don't
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  Speaker 3: get on top of these type of things, they can
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  Speaker 3: cause some pretty big issues for you and for your kids,
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  Speaker 3: so my advice is to try your best, go and
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  Speaker 3: see a GP and see if you are able to
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  Speaker 3: get referred to that to the Hearing Health Program, and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully get it sorted sooner rather than later.