 What was your generation in Tanyambia? Why are you playing with Sapa? Bona kuna kuhua po e nashlake kikakelele. Why are you enticing me for no reason? But hi, thank you so very much for playing the song. So yeah, that was your favorite song. This is your favorite show, favorite breakfast show. Ladies' breakfast show around. You can find us at Whitefifon on Facebook, at Whitefifon channel on Twitter. Hashtag is white in the morning. Mimi kama reyanetoba or at Kalamiva or everything. And it is my honor to bring to you Health Monday. How healthy is your Monday? Yeah, but mine wasn't very healthy. Didn't start off very well. I had drunk like three cups of coffee. So maybe we get to the expert and see what's up. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the set. Hello. What's your good name? Aisa Kohome. Washeera. What do you do? My business is all about hearing. Taking care of hearing and hearing health care. Yes. What are the things you have been doing? Basically, we have different sizes of ears. And we take genes from our parents. So most of that is genetic. The size of the ears is basically genetic. And you realize that with age, especially small children, they tend to have bigger ears than their head. But as they grow, they outgrow basically. They become proportional. Yeah, they become proportional. So children, stop being mean. Talking about flying. No, don't do it. Hashtag is white in the morning. So we were talking about a couple of facts about the ear width. Yours truly, Sankara Kaisu. And one of the things I discovered, I don't know how true this is. It says your ear lobit continues to grow. Is it true? Yeah, the ear grows basically until around 14, 15 years of age. And then it stops. Oh, so early nipima because it said on the article that they don't stop growing. Yeah, it just stops up to a certain age. But the face continues sort of growing. It grows very slowly. But hearing starts as early as four weeks in the utrine. Oh. Yeah, as early as that. And then from there it just stays on like that. So it's legit that you kiyongelisham toto kwa tumbo na kuske. That's true. When you put for them music. Oh my gosh, I'm going to have so much fun. Oh my gosh. Okay, that is beside the point. Another fun fact is that the ears don't ever let it go off. So you're always, they're always working whether I'm sleeping or not. It's true. But mbona siskia givitu niki lala. Fusana sana alarm. Mbona mwa siskia alarm na nimelala. So the ear has, it's in the part of the brain almost like it's like breathing. It doesn't stop. It's 24 hours. It works 24 hours. And it's on throughout until even, even the samatiko says that even when you die, it's like the ear that dies last after you die. So it's really an amazing part of the body. But when you're sleeping, it's just on. It's just on, but it's on for alarming issues or anything that will make you sort of get alarmed. That's the point that basically works you up. But it's on throughout. It doesn't stop working. So it's my brain that's playing tricks on me. Yes, it's the brain. Not yourself. Alright, another fun fact about the ear that I discovered is the little two ears inside help with the hearing. The little two ears inside there, their work is basically fast is to clean the ear. So the ear works like a conveyor belt. It just removes that from inside to outside. So the ears are like the brushes. They clean off whatever is coming out. They trap some insects and dust and all that. That's basically the work of the ears in the ears. So it's self-cleaning. It's self-cleaning. The ear cleans itself. It's like a conveyor belt. It just cleans quite well. Natu ke kuja kutuwa sasa badai. Ya ni makosa ma? Ya, because it has done the cleaning in Meleta. And then you're also pushing it inside with your cotton bud. Oh my gosh. So cleaning you push back, cleaning you push back. Okay, okay. Ya. And also I understand it kind of works like mucus. So kakuna tuvumbi itu naengi apu. Yes. So in a block you apuna. Yes. Who's a bright one? A bright one. Ya, I'm feeling very intelligent today. Another fun fact about ears and this one you have to explain to me like a baby. How is it that it affects my balance? The two ears in my head affecting something that's happening on this side. Your balance. So basically the ear has two main functions. One of them is hearing and the other one is balance. So there's a part of the ear that basically senses or detects your position, your head position, your movement, and they work in conjunction with your knees and your eyes. So they work together such that if you turn, if you incline, if you bend, your head you are able to know exactly at what angle where you are and if you are inclining those kind of things. So basically the work of the ear is to help you with balance and hearing. So those are the two main functions of the ear. So I understand when you have an ear infection you might tend to feel abuse. Sure, sure. Ya, but mbonam leviu tembego. So one of the reasons is mbonam leviu basically works on the part of the brain. Because remember the problem with alcohol is coordination. You lose coordination. So that part of coordination is what we refer as loss of balance. So they don't coordinate, they become incoherent and all that. It's like they become like children. Yes, they work the same. They tag around, they become a taxi, all those kind of things. Oh wow. Okay, so how do we know if we have an ear infection and it's not just, you know, uchafu, you've taken something or ushe, raka sana lafukas kefu. Okay, let me first sit back down and see what's going on. That kind of disease spell that you feel. Ya, how do you know if you're actually really sick ama ini kiki tutu? Alright, you know, science of infection. Infection can come in many ways and it can have different science and symptoms. One of the main symptoms of infection is when you have a fever. And again when you have pain and pain can come basically in the ears. You can have some aspects of loss of balance or disease. Just be having those disease spells or spinning. And then the other important thing is you can lose your hearing. So the hearing can come all of a sudden or it can come progressively. Those kind of things are some of the symptoms when you have ear infection. And of course ear infection can go from the ear. Especially when you have like pain it can radiate from the ear and it goes either to the nose or to the throat or vice versa. It's like you read my mind because the next thing I was going to ask I've never really heard of an ear doctor or okay, yes they're there but the most common version of this is a head, ear, nose and mouth. Yes. How is there a relation to the ear? It's really interconnected. The nose is interconnected with the ears. The nose is interconnected with the mouth and so on. So basically for example the nose there's a tube that connects the nose to the ears as called the stitching tubes that helps us with air pressures. You feel like for example when you're going in a mountain or you're scuba diving and you're really going low and you feel your ears are blocked. It's because it's that tube that helps us balance the external pressure and the internal pressure opens when you're opening your mouth or when you're chewing or when you're talking. That's when it opens and it closes when you close your mouth. So it basically helps us balance the tube. And again the same the nose is connected to the mouth through the backside. Sometimes that's when you feel maybe like mucus is coming back and falls at the throat. There's a noise people. I will not make it in the morning. So when saliva is pulling back or when you're breathing basically it is an opening at the back. So air goes back to the throat and then from the throat to the lungs. So that is the interconnection. And again infections they can run either way. They can run to the nose, they can run to the throat and they can run to the ears. So that's why we are usually around that area. Wow. Hey, scientist. Who's feeling like a scientist this morning? Yes? Okay, I read about this condition. Don't call it a disease. Forgive me if I can't remember it. Tinitas. Tinitas. That one. Something about you hearing buzz or as if tea. But there's no source outside. It's just you and it's just in your head. So how do you first realize that's what's going on and how do you... They say there's no cure so it's for living with it. Yeah. So basically tinitas is the noise that comes from the ears with either as a result of something or... Oh, like a loud explosion. Yeah. I mean like when we say tinitas it can come from... The easiest way we categorize them is tinitas that come as a result of hearing loss and tinitas that occurs when you don't have hearing loss. So for people who have hearing problems or they can't be able to hear well is basically another sign. There's another sign that you have. It's like a watchman telling you there's a problem and this problem needs to be solved. So there's that constant buzzing noise in the ears or in the head as people say. So basically tells you there's something going on and I think your hearing is low and that's why I'm buzzing every other time. And a very good example is like for people who have problems with hypertension. So you never see them having pain anywhere or anything like that. They're just basically either complaining of blood, vision or headache. So the same way with the hearing loss if you have tinitas then it's always prudent to make sure that your hearing is checked. And then we have the other category of people without hearing loss but they still have tinitas and that tinitas can be contributed by many things. Some of them are lifestyle things like medication, coffee too much coffee, those kind of things. You know lifestyle can stress and all that. So when you stress you can have tinitas and many other things and then the very rare things is sometimes people who have some types of special growths or tumours. Those are the rare kind of people with tinitas but the type of tinitas is that one that pumps like blood, it pumps like blood. Oh, it's like you're hearing a pulse. So that is a different type of tinitas. It's a lot to learn in this class. Now you've confused me a little bit. Let me remind you where you are. You're watching Why In The Morning in particular on Channel Y254. You can find us on Y254 on Facebook or Y254 channel on Twitter. In case you have a question for the doctor please don't ask me any questions. I'm also asking. So what about tinitas? I want tinitas because that's the first thing. So is hearing loss hereditary or again is it lifestyle? And why are my devices always telling me I'm trying to add the volume with my earphones because that loud volume will impen- I want what I want to give me. It's important. Tomorrow is a wild hearing day and hearing globally is causing a lot of disabling issues and there are so many reasons why you can lose hearing. 60% of hearing loss is preventable. So as a result of infection and another common thing like you said is noise, what you call noise induced hearing loss that affects the young generation and a very big percentage between 12 to 5 years of age are losing their hearing because of recreational causes. One of them is listening to loud music or listening to music for long duration of time. Those are some of the causes of hearing loss and another thing that you have talked about is being a hereditary problem. So you can inherit genes from either parents which can cause you to have hearing loss. So apart from genetic causes, apart from infectious causes, apart from noise induced type of hearing loss there are many other causes of hearing loss that can occur either before birth, after birth or as you grow up. There is this common misconception that if you find someone who is experiencing hearing loss the right thing to do is start shouting On and on, how do you relate to them if you have never been around people who are differently able? So this year the theme is let hearing loss not limit you and hearing is life. And one of the things that Wcho is telling us is that communication is so important and we communicate in different ways and when we find people who have problems with hearing loss we tend to stigmatize them. Some of them feel isolated, some of them actually feel even ashamed when you shout to them or when they want you to repeat or when they ask you to repeat so they feel sort of ashamed even to talk about their issues because remember hearing loss is a hidden disability and we tend to stigmatize these people even in schools, at workplace and all that when we try to shout to them telling them to repeat basically when they ask us to repeat we tend to think that they are a little bit dumb or something like that and really they are going through a very difficult time of their life. So hearing is life it's part of everyday communication and without good hearing then it is very difficult even to communicate and you know even deaf community they need to watch things like televisions and that's why we have the captions of people signing because it's life, it's part of life they want to be integrated with the society and when we find somebody without with a problem with hearing then there are interventions that needs to be done one of them could be hearing it maybe these people might need cochlear implant and most so the problems that they have is either they are not seeking medical care or whether they don't know that there is an intervention and those are some of the things that limit them to come forward to seek guidance and helps with their hearing problems so I think one of the things that we should when we are commemorating the world hearing day tomorrow is to tell people they should come out get tested and get intervention so that they have a normal way of communicating with other people because I can imagine when I was younger I would play a game called broken telephone and I would whisper it to so by the time it starts if I was saying when the morning is the best remedy for Monday morning by the time I wake up morning, something, holidays Somalia MPs or something so communication is important and just to be sure selective hearing so you can't hear but that is the one you hear so what was last year's theme? last year's theme was get your hearing checked but today we are saying is that let hearing loss not limit you and hearing is life have you encountered people who have had hearing loss and have been limited by them? sure like I said hearing loss is basically a hidden disability being a hidden disability especially for children it means that first they will have delayed speech they will delay in terms of speaking and we have seen lots of children that are coming to be tested when they are around 6 years of age or 7 years of age and they can't be able to communicate or talk when they should have come and how old? they should have come as early as 3 years of age and you know the reason why is because the child needs to be taken to school and they can't be able to speak and that's when they come so when they are coming for us to do intervention and they should have developed speech by 3 years of age then it means this child is delayed the entire life because by the time we have intervention probably we put a cochlear implant or hearing aid and then we start speech therapy and then they go back to school it basically has a huge impact on this child life to draw out her entire life and of course an impact even on the parents in terms of finances and all that at work place there are people who are being fired every other time because for instance the boss with the secretary tells the secretary I need water or I need something and then they bring something totally different and you know at some point you have some pressure at work and you are the boss and you are telling somebody to give you this and gives you something different basically has an impact it has an impact in every other aspect even at home when you are speaking to your spouse probably you have to there are people who have come to us especially the elderly people and they really want to speak things within their home they don't want anybody else to hear and because they can't hear you have to shout to them and then it's like you're breaking the secrets within the family so it basically has an impact it is a problem it is a problem at home, at school people have children basically having poor grades because they can't hear the teachers remember for children they depend on instructions and commands from the teachers and the lecturers when you can't hear instructions or commands you just tend to copy what is going on so you sit next to somebody who is writing you just copy what they are doing and you do what they are doing but you are not following instructions even kids are being beaten by their parents every other time because they think they can't hear them so they are being beaten every other time and the problem is they can't hear how can we join in the festivities of tomorrow so tomorrow in Nairobi at Kenyatta National Hospital in conjunction with University of Nairobi in conjunction with Turkey Hearing Technologies and CBM and other institutions will be hosting free hearing check at University Ground just next to Kenyatta National Hospital and of course institutions like the Turkey Hearing Foundation will be coming in handy and other institutions to help out with some of the interventions they will be having on the grounds and other counties for example the Nandi County they also will be commemorating at home WTO has introduced an application that is called Hiyahu so it's a fund based application that you can do your hearing check at home just need earphones and then you just check your hearing and it will tell you if you have good hearing and if you have a problem then you need to see an audiologist or a hearing specialist to help you out okay that sounds grand guys so Fomya Keshwami skin again what time does it start? it starts as early as 8 in the morning up to 5 so tomorrow is just commemoration and we are even encouraging people to help us with a campaign in creating awareness let people come out let their hearing be checked and if you have anybody with hearing loss let's not stigmatize them tell them to seek help from the ENT specialist the hearing specialist in terms of hearing aids and other modalities if it is a result of a simple thing just work impaction that can be removed and you restore your hearing 100% it could be a foreign body those kind of things just have your hearing checked and you resolve the problems that are as a result of poor hearing is it free? it's free, it's definitely free Kenyans what else do you want it's a party tomorrow from 8 to 5 p.m. go get your ears checked maskia kubwa see shida maskia pepe see shida selektifiering again see o shida thank you so much for coming thank you very much you are still watching white in the morning I suggest you stay with us because we have mcm coming up and the topic is very interesting as usual but in case you don't know what it is yet go check on our pages hashtag is white in the morning see you in a bit