Medical Conferences

The hearing loss is one of the most well-known diseases of the ear. He usually occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, leading to a different extent of hearing loss. Often only one side moves, it can ensure that you have complete hearing loss or only on some frequencies will be deaf. A distinction is generally made between two types of sudden hearing loss: the hearing loss detectable WITH or WITHOUT identifiable cause. Both, however, combines a large spontaneous healing, so the sudden disappearance of symptoms and normalization of the state.

A sudden hearing loss usually is heralded by misperceptions on the ear. Particularly well known is the tinnitus, a constant beeping in my ear over a long period of time. Pain, however, never occur in a sudden loss of hearing and are therefore no reliable symptoms.

Especially dangerous is the sudden loss of hearing, unless he is at rest but in the active state occurs, ie, for example, when walking or driving a car. The man must focus, or is in motion. Because the hearing loss affects not only the ear but also the organ of balance, which is also located in the ear, is it possible to lose his balance. The result is a momentary loss of control over their own movement coordination, which can assume states in dangerous situations.

Accurate risk factors are difficult to define because of the diverse causes. These go of stress on blood flow to deadly infections such as AIDS or hepatitis. In general, however, remains to note is that any risk factors for circulatory problems such as obesity, smoking, drinking and poor diet, including factors for sudden deafness.

Since this is in almost all diseases is the case, the definition still remains vague. Only the frequent occurrence in most workaholic or persons in stressful jobs such as teachers or managers does allow for some theses. Thus, it is assumed that individuals have particularly stressed a significantly higher risk than the matched characters.

The hearing loss be considered as a medical emergency and must be treated immediately, because otherwise longer-term damage may occur on the ear. Since the therapeutic approaches differ, they have mostly agreed on an initial infusion therapy, and an examination by an ENT specialist. This can diagnose properly in exclusion proceedings a hearing loss and take appropriate countermeasures.