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?Treatment of hearing loss

• Hearing loss can be treated, but hearing cannot be restored.
•  In most cases, hearing loss is treated with the use of hearing aids.
• Some are treated with different types of implants and surgery may cure some types of conductive hearing loss.
• A sensorineural hearing loss is normally treated with hearing aids.
•  A conductive hearing loss can often be treated with an operation or removal of the blockage of the ear, in certain cases hearing aids or implants might be needed.
•  A sudden hearing loss must be treated instantly and the treatment often involves the use of steroids.

Causes of Hearing loss?

• Some diseases and infections

• Certain syndromes
• Medications and drugs
• Damages to the ears
• Injuries to the head
• Malformation of the ear or blockage of the ear
• Genetic factors
• Tumors in the head
• Alcohol and tobacco
• Solvents
• Cholesterol

Types of hearing loss?

• A hearing loss can be sensorineural, conductive or mixed.

• A sensorineural hearing loss results from damage to the tiny hair cells in the inner ear.
• Age-related hearing loss also known as Presbyacusis is a type of sensorineural hearing loss
• noise-induced hearing loss, which is a permanent hearing loss caused by prolonged exposure to high levels of noise.
• A conductive hearing loss is where the ears’ ability to conduct sound from the outer ear  through the middle ear into the inner ear is blocked or reduced.