Hearing disorders: causes and remedies

Hearing disorders can vary not only in type, but also in origin and intensity.

CAUSES

Deafness can have hereditary origins: if one or both parents are deaf, there is a high risk that the child will also be deaf.

A head injury, a concussion without a fracture or even intense physical effort can cause rupture of the labyrinthine membranes and cause sudden deafness.

Viral or bacterial infections, such as bacterial meningitis, mononucleosis, herpes zoster of the ear.

Hearing loss due to age

Age-related hearing loss occurs gradually in most people as they age and is in fact one of the most common conditions affecting adults and older adults.

Hearing loss due to noise

It can be difficult to distinguish age-related hearing loss from that which may occur for other reasons, such as exposure to excessively loud noises. They can occur for both short and more prolonged exposures, due to alterations that occur at the level of the delicate sensory structures of the ear.

It can be immediate or appear over time, it can be permanent or temporary, it can affect both ears or just one.

CURE AND REMEDIES

Treatment obviously depends on the agent responsible for the partial or complete hearing loss.

Conductive hearing loss is treatable and reversible: it can be resolved with medical treatment that treats the inflammation. Or sometimes with surgical interventions.

Neurosensory hearing loss (when the disease affects the auditory nerve), can instead be treated with drugs only in cases of acute, sudden forms and nerve damage.

It is necessary to diagnose them as quickly as possible through hearing tests, otherwise they cause irreversible deafness, for which the individual must necessarily resort to the use of hearing aids which help to accurately amplify the sounds that reach the room. 'ear.