Sudden Hearing Loss - How to deal with this Emergency? - Dr. P Lakshmi Satish | Doctors' Circle

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Dr. Lakshmi Ponnathpur, MS - ENT MBBS | Phone 📞 080 2663 1108 (Online & in-person appointment can be booked online or by call) Consultant ENT Surgeon | Skin, Cosmetic & ENT Care Center, Bangalore, India
Sudden hearing loss is an otological emergency. A person waking up in the morning with a hearing loss can be quite frightening so he has to rush to the doctor immediately and cannot wait for a long time thinking that it can be due to wax. Not all sudden hearing loss is due to a block wax or due to a common cold. It is really an emergency condition where a person can even lose it permanently if not treated adequately. There are many causes and most of the times in fact you cannot find a correct reason. When you do an ENT examination after taking a thorough history you may not find any cause in the external ear or in the drum or in the middle ear reflected through the eardrum. So we have to take a thorough history of any recent ear infection, recent history of any head injury the recent otological surgeries or common cold, flu, etc. and history of playing any contact sports, history of recent air travel, exposure to extremely cold winds and if they are suffering from any systemic diseases etc. Many times we cannot find any cause but on doing a thorough examination sometimes you may pick up coincidental factors like an uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension and when you do cholesterol test it may be very high. Just like the vessels get blocked during a heart attack the blood vessels supplying the inner ear can get blocked suddenly because of cholesterol plaques or many other blocks or vasospasm of the blood vessel can lead to sudden hearing loss. The inner ear blood supply is very delicate and it can get affected due to various reasons including exposure to extremely cold wind. It can cause vasospasm and cause a sudden hearing loss. Therefore it's very important for us clinicians to diagnose it appropriately at the earliest and start initiating the treatment. We have to give intra-tympanic steroid injections and oral steroids appropriately starting from day one of the onset of symptoms. If it is delayed by more than one month the chances of recovery are very remote. Thank you.
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[Abhinavn]

I have done head bath and slept then next I cant hear properly from my left ear what to do please help me and I am getting slight ear pain and I used hydrogen peroxide that it would clear mywax if any in my ear and the amount of hydrogen peroxide is very less when I poured it out from my ear should I concern a doctor or I can have any home remedy please help me

[AbduLWajiD]

me from pak, ,,which drop r medicane best for loss hearing ?

[ImranAnsari-qnke]

Kan ka nas ka ilaaj ho sakta hai kya mam

[sonambhutia]

Ma’am I can only hear partial muffled sound from my left ear not as crisp and clear as my right ear please do tell me a remedy for this

[AlifTheWolveGamerOffical]

When i was showering and some water gone into my right ear and when i gone to sleep sudeenly i cant properly hear in my right ear it became small what shoud i do

[swetapandey]

Hello ma'am, my father is sometimes have a problem of hearing.He is unable to listen the beep of the thermometer. At the end of July, he had his engioplasty.Could you please help me what to do as I believe this could be the initial stage may be I am wrong? Do help me pls as it's is the history of our family.

[jayadama]

Dr.Satish when hearing loss causing that?

[AjaySaini]

Sudden hearing loss after brain stoke possible mam

[RAMKOTKAR-wypn]

Iam a 15 year old and my left ear cause temporary deafness. some time it recover within 1 - 2 days but today is my 3rd day of it.
Plzz response