The Food and Drug Administration estimates that around 30 million people in the United States deal with hearing loss.
for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. That can include people who have trouble hearing phone calls or who turn up the TV volume loud enough that others complain.OTC hearing aids aren’t intended for people with deeper hearing loss, which may include those who have trouble hearing louder noises, like power tools and cars. They also aren’t for people who lost their hearing suddenly or in just one ear, according to Sterling Sheffield, an audiologist who teaches at the University of Florida.
Shoppers should expect a lot of devices to enter and leave the market, said Catherine Palmer, a hearing expert at the University of Pittsburgh.Look for an OTC label on the box. Hearing aids approved by the FDA for sale without a prescription are required to be labeled OTC. “People really need to read the descriptions,” said Barbara Kelley, executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America.
Sheffield said hearing aids are not complicated, but wearing them also is not as simple as putting on a pair of reading glasses.THE COST
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