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Symptoms of disease - hearing disorder in children

Hearing loss is a very common problem. In the world of more than 500 millions of people suffering from hearing impairment. And this number is constantly increasing, since the ecology continues to deteriorate, the noise pollution of the environment increases, and most people still blithely refer to their own health.

A hearing disorder in children - the problem of medical, psychological and social.

Violations of hearing loss in children occur more often, than it may seem. To some extent they affect about 15 out of 1000 newborns. The 0.5% of the cases it's deafness and heavy defeat of the hearing, bordering with deafness.

Which diseases there is hearing disorder in children

Violations of hearing in one degree or another is quite common in children of different age.

To the category of children with hearing impairments include only children with persistent (i.e. irreversible) bilateral (in both ears) violation of auditory function, in which the normal (by ear) voice communication with other people is difficult or impossible.

Specialists distinguish conducted and sensorineural of hearing loss.

When the conducted violations of the inner ear of man is functioning properly. In this case, the problem arises in the outer or middle ear, most likely a temporary and treatable.

This is, for example, inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), education sulphur traffic jams, abnormal structure of the external and middle ear (absence or underdevelopment of the auricles, Bamyan auditory passages, the defects of the tympanic membrane, etc.), foreign bodies in the ear, etc.

Sensorineural of hearing loss associated with damage to the inner ear. Unfortunately, this type of violations is irreversible, in which modern medicine to restore normal hearing can not.

Causes of persistent irreversible hearing:

a) hereditary diseases, accompanied by the defeat of the auditory analyzer;

b) viral infectious disease of the mother during pregnancy (rubella, influenza, herpes, toxoplasmosis, cytomegalovirus), toxicosis pregnancy, especially in the case of their occurrence in the first 3 months of pregnancy;

C) the use of drugs with ototoxic the action of antibiotics (streptomycin, amikacin, gentamicin and etc., furosemide, quinine), appointed by the mother during pregnancy or the child at an early age;

d) birth trauma, asphyxia of the newborn;

e) prematurity (the genera previously 32nd week of pregnancy) and/or birth weight 1500;

(e) children's viral and infectious disease (meningitis, encephalitis, scarlet fever, severe forms of mumps, measles, complications of influenza);

g) acute and chronic inflammatory processes of the hearing of the child;

h) traumatic brain injury of the child.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a hearing disorder in children

• ENT
• Child ENT
• Pediatrician

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