Sometimes you hear a ringing in your ear, and your own voice seems strange. Particular discomfort occurs when both ear are involved in the pathological process. From what it can happen?
Hearing impairment is a decrease in a person's ability to catch environmental sounds in partial or full volume. Some decrease in the ability to perceive and understand sounds is called deafness, and the total loss of hearing ability is deafness.
Noise in the ears is a sensation of noise in the ears in the absence of an external source of noise. Approximately 15% of the adult population experienced tinnitus at one time or another, 0.5-2% were severely affected by this. Although children also sometimes feel a noise in their ears, they quickly pass and they do not pay attention to it. Most often, the noise in the ears begins at the age of 50-60 years.
Deafness, unlike blindness, is not precisely defined as a disability, so any degree of hearing loss can be described as deafness. This is a defect to the patients themselves and to the persons in contact with them, since this reduces the possibility of communication. In the UK, there are approximately 3 million adults with hearing impairment.
Although temporary hearing loss in children due to the presence of effusion in the middle ear cavity ("glued ear") occurs quite often, permanent deafness occurs much less often (in infants, approximately 1-2 per 1000 children). But it is important to remember that since children of early age are affected, they need to provide all possible assistance to restore the hearing so that these children learn to speak.
Acute purulent inflammation of the middle ear. As a rule, it occurs after infection of the upper respiratory tract. Persons of any age are ill, but more often children. The patient complains of earaches, fever, a feeling of pressure in the ear and loss of hearing.
Otorrhea - discharge from the ear, they are serous, serous-hemorrhagic or purulent. At the same time, otalgia, fever, itching, dizziness, ringing in the ears and hearing loss can be observed.
