Causes, Types and Symptoms of hearing loss

Causes of hearing loss

Hearing loss is a very difficult part of human life .hearing loss is when you are unable to hear sound in one and both of your ears.some of which can be completely treated with medicine or surgery, depending on the disease process. There are many cause of hearing loss given below:

some possible causes of hearing loss

1. sudden sensorineural hearing loss

2.Eardrum Rupture
3.middle ear infection
4. Meniere's disease
5. Lead posining
 6.brain tumor
7.head injury
 8.loud volume
9.Noise
                          

Types of hearing loss

 Three types of hearing loss

 1.conductive hearing loss:  conductive hearing problems occurs with the ears canal, ear drumor     middle ear and little bones.

 2. sensorineural hearing loss:  its related to nerve -related hearing loss(problem of the inner ear).

 3. mixed hearing loss:  it is refers to the combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.  this means damage the outer and inner ear.  

symptoms of hearing loss

  You may also become aware of it when you use headphones or hold a phone to your affected ear. hearing loss  by a loud popping sound. Other symptoms include:

•  trouble following group conversations
•  muffled conversation sounds
•  inability to hear well when there’s a lot of background noise
•  difficulty hearing high-pitched sounds
•  dizziness
•  balance problems
•  when you hear ringing or buzzing sounds in your ear are damage.

Treatment of Sensorineural Hearing Loss: 

 Sensorineural hearing loss can result from the sense of hearing trauma (or exposure to excessively loud noise), which may respond to medical therapy with  any similar synthetic substance, used in treating inflammatory and allergic diseases to reduce cochlea hair cell swelling and inflammation to improve  healing of these injured inner ear structures.

                                         

 Treatment of conductive Hearing Loss: 

conductive hearing loss are: infection; tumors; middle ear fluid from infection or Eustachian tube dysfunction; foreign body; and trauma (as in a skull  fracture). Acute infections are usually treated with antibiotic or fungous medications.

                                                 

 Treatment of Mixed hearing loss :

Mixed hearing loss is a combination of conductive and senesorineural hearing loss.conductive hearing loss are treated with surgical or medical treatment while sensorineural hearing loss are treated with hearing aids.