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Gradual decrease of hearing

2018-01-04 15:54:01
Hi Doc. My mom is around 67+ aged and has hearing problem from couple of years. On general check up 1 doc. said the hearing goes low as the age increases.he said 1 side is 90% weak in hearing and other is 60%. Can the hearing capacity can be recovered or not ?? And the lowering of hearing due to increase of age is true or not ? Regards
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Hi From the symptoms you mentioned it seems you are having age related hearing loss . The auditory nerve gets weakened in this condition.the treatment for this is digital hearing aids.
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still I would like to suggest you to visit an ent specialist doctor and get yourself examined properly and then take proper treatment accordingly. regards

Answered2018-01-05 06:46:09

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