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Causes cont.

What are the causes?

This type of hearing loss can occur from head trauma or abrupt changes in air pressure such as in airplane descent, which can cause inner ear fluid compartment rupture or leakage, which can be toxic to the inner ear. This hearing loss can also occur from acoustic trauma, or exposure to excessively loud noise, which can be toxic to the inner ear.

References

Disabilities Definitions. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcplg?IdcService=GET_DYNAMIC_CONVERSION&Revisi onSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=id_004560

Types, Causes and Treatment | Hearing Loss Association of America. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://www.hearingloss.org/content/types­causes­and­treatment

  • exposure to loud noise
  • head trauma
  • virus or disease
  • autoimmune inner ear disease
  • hearing loss that runs in the family
  • aging (presbycusis)
  • malformation of the inner ear
  • Meniere’s Disease
  • otosclerosis ­(a hereditary disorder in which a bony growth forms around a small bone in the middle ear, preventing it from vibrating when stimulated by sound)
  • tumors

What is it?

Prevention & Signs of hearing loss

A major cause of hearing loss in our society is noise exposure. Tiny hair cells in the ear are damaged when assaulted by loud noise. Once those hair cells are destroyed they cannot be replaced.

  • You have to raise your voice to be understood by someone standing nearby
  • The noise hurts your ears
  • You develop a buzzing or ringing sound in your ears, even temporarily (indicates some hair cells have died)
  • You don't hear as well as you normally do until several hours after you get away from the noise.

According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, adventitious hearing loss is described as “h​earing loss in individuals who were born with normal hearing, but at some point lost some or all of their hearing through illness or accident.”

Treatments

In the cases of irreversible hearing loss, this may be managed with hearing aids or surgically with cochlear implants. Each individual’s circumstances are different and no hearing loss is the same.

ADVENTITIOUS HEARING LOSS

Nicole Rosen

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