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What Causes Hearing Loss In One Ear?
My 87 year-old-dad has lost his hearing. He has been deaf in one ear all his adult life after a childhood chronic infection following scarlet fever. In the last 8 years he has needed a hearing aid to help with hearing in his only hearing ear. Within the last 2 years he has not been able to distinguish musical tones, just hears speech. In the last 6 months he has said that when people talk it sounds like they are talking through a turning fan. In the last 6 weeks his earing has gone down to nothing. He is totally deaf in his only (previously) hearing ear. What is going on?
Wed, 4 Jun 2014
hello, thanks for your query,normal hearing conducted by tympanic membrane and ossicles and nerve which comes from brain. as a chronic infection he lost tympanic mbrane and ossicles. age onset deafness occurs through nerve cells loss( hair cells connecting to hearing nerve). this is d reason he is getting profound loss due to damage of whole hearing mechanism. hearing aid d choice. all d best. take care.
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