What to do with congenital deafness? Four ways to help restore hearing

Hearing is one of the five senses of the human body, but patients with congenital deafness cannot enjoy the beauty of sound, which causes great psychological harm to them. However, with the development and progress of modern medicine, congenital deafness can be treated through science and technology.

1: For patients with genetic diseases, there are malformations in other parts of the body: such as Pendred syndrome, which is characterized by congenital deafness and sporadic goiter. Drug poisoning after embryo fertilization can cause ear deformities.

2: Then there are also cases where the patient has simple inner ear hypoplasia in the mother's womb: there are mainly two types: ① Scheibe type is the most common, and the sensory epithelium of the cochlear saccule is in the early fetal type. ②Mondini-Alexander type: the cochlea is flat, only the basal part is developed, and the vestibular structure is underdeveloped. ③Bing-sie-benmann type, which is membranous inner ear malformation or degeneration, accompanied by central nervous system abnormalities. ④Michel type: the inner ear is completely underdeveloped, which is the most serious deformity. Dystocia, premature birth, hypoxia, etc. can affect the development of the inner ear or brain and cause deafness. Hereditary inner ear degeneration: There is no obvious lesion in the inner ear at birth, but inner ear degeneration gradually occurs and may be accompanied by malformations in other parts of the body. Hearing loss is mainly high-frequency and is often accompanied by tinnitus. Occurs in adolescence and has a family history.

1: Auditory and speech training The former is to use the residual hearing of deaf children with the help of hearing aids, and gradually cultivate their listening habits through long-term planned sound stimulation, and improve their auditory perception, auditory attention, auditory positioning and recognition, memory and other abilities.

2: Cochlear implant is also called electronic cochlear implant or cochlear artificial ear. It is often used for young and middle-aged people with bilateral extreme post-lingual deafness who have normal mental and physical health. The patient must be a person whose hearing aids are ineffective, who has no active lesions in the ear, whose inner ear structure is normal as proven by imaging examinations, whose electrocochlear recording cannot detect any lesions, and whose brainstem reactions can be induced by electrical stimulation of the promontory or cochlear window.

3: Drug treatment for deafness. Because there are many causes of deafness, the pathogenesis and pathological changes are complex and different, there is no simple, effective drug or therapy that is suitable for all situations. At present, while excluding or treating the cause of the disease, drugs that can dilate the inner ear blood vessels, reduce blood viscosity and dissolve small blood clots, B vitamins, energy preparations, and antibacterial, antiviral and steroid hormone drugs are often used as early as possible.

4: A hearing aid is a sound amplification device that helps deaf people hear sounds. It is mainly composed of a miniature transmitter, an amplifier, headphones, an ear mold and a power supply. There are many types of hearing aids. For individual users, there are air conduction and bone conduction, box type and ear-level type (glasses type, behind-the-ear type and in-the-ear type), monaural and binaural cross-linking, etc. Generally, a detailed examination by an otologist or audiologist is required before the correct selection can be made. It can be used by people with an average speech frequency hearing loss of 35-80dB; the best effect is achieved when the hearing loss is around 60dB. Unilateral deafness generally does not require hearing aids

The impact is not so serious, but it seriously hinders the patient's communication and brings heavy psychological pressure to the patient.