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Related MedlinePlus Page: Hearing Disorders and Deafness
06/01/2015 10:29 AM EDT
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Hearing Problems in Children, Newborn Screening
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NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
- 10 Ways to Identify Hearing Loss
- 10 Ways to Identify Hearing Loss
- Anatomy of the Human Ear/Questions to Ask Your Hearing Professional
- Focus on Communication: NIH Research to Results
- Hearing Loss: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
- High Price of Noise Exposure
- How Loud Is Too Loud?
- Living with Hearing Loss
- Managing Hearing Loss
It's frustrating to be unable to hear well enough to enjoy talking with friends or family. Hearing disorders make it hard, but not impossible, to hear. They can often be helped. Deafness can keep you from hearing sound at all.
What causes hearing loss? Some possibilities are
- Heredity
- Diseases such as ear infections and meningitis
- Trauma
- Certain medicines
- Long-term exposure to loud noise
- Aging
There are two main types of hearing loss. One happens when your inner ear or auditory nerve is damaged. This type is usually permanent. The other kind happens when sound waves cannot reach your inner ear. Earwax build-up, fluid, or a punctured eardrum can cause it. Treatment or surgery can often reverse this kind of hearing loss.
Untreated, hearing problems can get worse. If you have trouble hearing, you can get help. Possible treatments include hearing aids, cochlear implants, special training, certain medicines, and surgery.
NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Hearing Loss (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Hearing Loss
(National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Hearing, Ear Infections, and Deafness
(National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- JAMA Patient Page: Adult Hearing Loss (American Medical Association) - PDFAvailable in Spanish
- Types of Hearing Loss (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Older Hispanic Men At Risk of Hearing Loss, Study Finds (05/28/2015, HealthDay)
- Could Weak Bones, Sudden Hearing Loss Be Linked? (04/22/2015, HealthDay)
- Osteoporosis and Hearing
(04/22/2015, HealthDay)
- Cochlear Implants May Also Boost Seniors' Mood, Thinking (03/12/2015, HealthDay)
- Hearing Loss Signals Need for Diagnosis (Food and Drug Administration)Available in Spanish
- Hearing Problems (American Academy of Family Physicians)Available in Spanish
- Inquiring Ears Want to Know: A Fact Sheet about Your Hearing Test (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) - PDF
- JAMA Patient Page: Audiometry (American Medical Association) - PDFAvailable in Spanish
- Steroid Treatments Equally Effective Against Sudden Deafness
- Have WISE EARS! for Life: Protect Yourself and Your Family from Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Available in Spanish
- Noise and Hearing Protection (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Adult Aural/Audiologic Rehabilitation (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)Available in Spanish
- Hearing Assistive Technology (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- MedlinePlus: Assistive Devices
- MedlinePlus: Hearing Aids
- Alport Syndrome (National Kidney Foundation)
- Auditory Neuropathy
- Auditory Processing Disorders (American Academy of Audiology)
- Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Hyperacusis: An Increased Sensitivity to Everyday Sounds (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Otosclerosis
- Ototoxic Medications (Medication Effects) (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Perforated Eardrum (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Sudden Deafness
- Vestibular Schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma) and Neurofibromatosis
- American Sign Language
- Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
- Closed Captioning on Television (Federal Communications Commission)Available in Spanish
- Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing: Tips for Working with Your Doctor (American Academy of Family Physicians)Available in Spanish
- Dial 711 for Telecommunications Relay Service (Federal Communications Commission)Available in Spanish
- Earbuds (Nemours Foundation)Available in Spanish
- Earwax and Care (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Earwax Blockage (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Speech-to-Speech Relay Service (Federal Communications Commission) - PDFAvailable in Spanish
- Telecommunications Relay Service (Federal Communications Commission) - PDF
- Travel Tips for the Hearing Impaired (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Video Relay Services (Federal Communications Commission)Available in Spanish
- What is an Audiologist? (American Academy of Audiology)
- Hearing Health Quick Test (American Academy of Audiology) - PDF
- Hearing Loss (DSHI Systems)
- Ten Ways to Recognize Hearing Loss
- Test Your Sense of Pitch
- Bone Anchored Hearing Treatment Procedure
- Getting Your Hearing Tested
- Hearing and the cochlea
- How Loud Is Too Loud?
- Protecting Your Hearing
- Travel Inside the Ear
- How We Hear (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Understanding the Ear (Gallaudet University, Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center)
- Adding Speech, Language, and Hearing Benefits to Your Policy (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Funding for Audiology Services and Hearing Aids (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Deafness
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Hearing Disorders
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Presbycusis
- Genes and Hearing Loss (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Genetics Home Reference: Alström syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Björnstad syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Branchiootorenal syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Congenital deafness with labyrinthine aplasia, microtia, and microdontia
- Genetics Home Reference: Craniofacial-deafness-hand syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Deafness-dystonia-optic neuronopathy syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Nonsyndromic deafness
- Genetics Home Reference: Otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia
- Genetics Home Reference: Pendred syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Perrault syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Sensorineural deafness and male infertility
- Genetics Home Reference: Stickler syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Townes-Brocks Syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Vohwinkel syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Waardenburg syndrome
- Genetics Home Reference: Weissenbacher-Zweymüller syndrome
- Hearing Impairment and Dual Sensory Impairment Are Associated with Increased Mortality in Older Men
- Technique Forms Working Inner Ear Cells
- NIDCD Glossary
- Directory of Organizations (Deafness and Communication Disorders)
- Find an Audiologist (American Academy of Audiology)
- Model Bill of Rights for People Receiving Audiology or Speech-Language Pathology Services (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Telecommunications Relay Services
- Quick Statistics
- Age-Related Hearing Loss
- Eldercare at Home: Hearing Problems (AGS Foundation for Health in Aging)
- Genetic Variation Linked to Age-Related Hearing Loss
- Get Your Hearing Checked
(Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
- Hearing Loss (AGS Foundation for Health in Aging)
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss and Older Adults
- Acoustic trauma Available in Spanish
- Age-related hearing loss Available in Spanish
- Audiometry Available in Spanish
- Ear examination Available in Spanish
- Hearing loss Available in Spanish
- Hearing loss and music Available in Spanish
- Living with hearing loss Available in Spanish
- Occupational hearing loss Available in Spanish
- Otosclerosis Available in Spanish
- Sensorineural deafness Available in Spanish
- Talking to someone with hearing loss Available in Spanish
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