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Treatments of Infant Hearing Loss
What treatments are available?
For chronic non-suppurative otitis media, or serous otitis
The specialist prescribed an antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory and a decongestant, and then will be reviewed. However, your doctor may decide to insert a drainage tube which is placed in a small hole made in the eardrum. This tube helps drain the beginning of the middle ear fluid and then to keep the middle ear ventilated, so as not to repeat the chronic non-suppurative otitis media.
The child’s hearing will improve and you can feel the difference almost immediately after insertion of drain pipe. After a while, the drainage tube falls out spontaneously. Sometimes chronic non-suppurative otitis media returns after the collapse of the tube. Rarely a child’s hearing does not improve after tube insertion, and may be because the child has a permanent hearing loss. Read the rest of this entry »
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Infant Hearing Loss: What to Do?
What can you do?
Some factors that cause deafness can be prevented or can reduce their risk. A healthy diet, clean air and not to smoke around your child can reduce the risk of chronic non-suppurative otitis media. Routine vaccination of your child and meningitis may prevent these causes of deafness. The children of persons who are related (like cousins) or people with a genetic form of deafness (especially when both parents are affected) have an increased risk of deafness.
If you are unsure of how your child’s hearing, write down what can and can not hear. For example if you respond better when they can see you, try touching your attention before you speak and make sure you can see his face and lips clearly and that you are well lit. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diagnosis of Infant Hearing Loss
How do you diagnose hearing loss in children?
Typically, babies who belong to a group of risk will be given a hearing test at birth.
Hearing loss in infants and children will be assessed by a history of auditory behavior and language development through parents (like the examples mentioned above). It will examine the child and will be a hearing test.
Sometimes, if the child has a chronic otitis media with effusion, may need treatment and then be re-evaluated hearing levels to rule out a permanent hearing loss. Read the rest of this entry »
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Symptoms of Infant Hearing Loss
What are the symptoms?
Children with hearing loss will be less responsive, or no sound, and may have a delay in normal development of language, which would be approximately:
- Newborn: should startle (move all four limbs) and open your eyes wide in response to a sudden noise and strong, like a door.
- Baby 4-5 months: it must recognize the voice of parents smiling or leaving to mourn, and move the head and eyes in the direction of the speaker.
- Baby 7-8 months: you must turn your head and the body quickly to the parent’s voice and sounds like the phone ringing, feel good and respond when spoken to him making more noise. Read the rest of this entry »
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Infant Hearing Loss
What is hearing loss?
Hearing is one of the five senses, and when called reduced hearing loss, deafness or hearing loss. The ear is divided into three parts. The sound is transmitted through the outer and middle ear to the inner ear, which in turn has two parts:
- Cochlea, the organ of hearing
- Labyrinth: the organ of balance
A blockage or damage to any part of the ear causes lose some or all ability to hear sounds.
What causes hearing loss in children?
Temporary loss
In childhood hearing loss is usually temporary, sometimes appear after colds or due to an accumulation of fluid behind the eardrum (chronic non-suppurative otitis media, or otitis media with effusion). It is estimated that 90% of children will at some point this picture, with or without hearing loss. Children have a different anatomy of adults, making them more likely to develop chronic non-suppurative otitis media after a cold, and are less able to get rid of it. However, the chronic non-suppurative otitis media usually resolves spontaneously and is relatively rare after age 10. Read the rest of this entry »
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