Deafness

You consist on the forfeiture or decrease of the auditory sense. The transmission deafness, the deafness of perception and the combined deafness exist.

The transmission deafness affects the extraneous hearing and the mean. The most frequent lawsuits in the same one are: the plug of wax (collection of ceruminous substance that when being deposited in the external auditory canal and to cork it, you drive to the deafness whose appearance is in a very sharp way and generally after an immersion bathroom, since then the water softens the plug of wax dilating it and in consecuancia it corks the referred conduit), the foreign bodies, the otoesclerosis and the extraneous otitis and you mediate. In the case of plug of wax, you are only generally the physician who can proceed to your extraction, half pr of a laundry with tepid water. To claim your extraction with pincers or ganchillos, you only drive to insert it more toward inside.

The same thing happens with the foreign bodies, especially in the children who insert in the external auditory canal rubber pieces of deleting, papers, necklace accounts, piedrecitas, lapicera mines, peas, etc., and they frequently hide this circumstance to the parents fearing one reprehended. Never debit side to attempt the extraction of the foreign bodies for inexpert hands, since the maneuvers for they are it difficult and a deeper penetration is only achieved, with possibility of to perforate the drum membrane and to produce a half otitis then. The expert should only be the manager of your extraction, or the general thing very laborious, because in occasions you/he/she becomes even necessary the general anestecia, for the fear or unruliness of the petty one.

In the case of animated foreign bodies - as an insect for example - the maximum thing that it can be made before going to the physician you are to instill in the hearing some drops of oleum, in order to asphyxiate the intruder and to liberate this way the patient of the pain that cause you the same one when moving or to even avoid that you attack the drum membrane.

The otoesclerosis is a very frequent lawsuit of transmission deafness that affect women especially and that you consist in that one of the bones of the half hearing, compound number stirrup, is fixed, without movement possibility, and in deprived consequence of transmitting the sound wave to the interior hearing. Your only tatamiento at the present time is the surgical one, by means of the replacement of the one referred stirrup by another mechanism mavible (polytene bush, tantalum wire, etc.), that you allow the step of the sound wave.

The deafness of perception, affects the interior hearing and in occasions it is also retro labyrinthine, to the one it turns affected the auditory own ledge. The most frequent lawsuits that provoke it are the cranial, vascular traumatisms - arteriosclerosis - and infections - certain viruses, for example that of the parotiditis or mumps, meningitis -; the toxics also contribute to such deafness, without forgetting the calls professional deafness, characteristic of individuals whose work in noisy environments causes you an acoustic trauma - boilermakers, planchistas - and finally the call "presbiacusia" that are the deafness presenil or senile.


The combined deafness, are those quie they enter both dysfunction types, that is to say, the transmission deafness and that of perception.

The grade of deafness of a patient can only be qualified by the expert by means of the studio with the tuning forks and the audiometría. Thanks to this, a chart transmitted by an electric apparatus settle down, the audiometer, which allow the physician to trace a graph - audiogram - in the one that the hearing losses are studied in the different frequencies, from the serious notes until the acute one, to different intensities.

Once calibrated the deafness for the expert, will be this who will indicate the treatment to continue that will be able to be: physician, surgical, or based on the allocation of a hearing aid or prosthesis in the hearing that he/she believe more opportune.

Otitis

The otitis is the illness more common of the hearing and you are about the inflammation of the same one that can affect the extraneous part, you mediate or you confine of this organ. According to the sector that the same one affects, the denomination of the otitis class that show up.

In the case of the extraneous otitis, they are represented by the processes that affect the pavilion headphone and the conduit extraneous aiditivu. They are characterized by the appearance of intense pain, particularly when pressing or to move the pavilion headphone, and even when making movements with the mouth: to masticate, to swallow, etc.

As you are bigger or pettier the grade of the inflammation that affect the external auditory canal, the otitis can go accompanied by a certain grade of deafness, caused by the inflammation experienced by the walls of the conduit that obstruído appears.

If the inflammatory process advances, despés will appear the supuración that one manifests for a serosity and even for true pus that fill the external auditory canal and you ooze for him, staining the patient in this case the pillow, as well as the hair or the cotton pellets that usually arrange in the entry of this conduit and that frequently they forget there, transforming then into a foreign body with the complications that such a status can carry.

Now then, the otitis stockings, like you indicate your name, they are those that affect the half hearing. They can be classified in two big groups: acute and chronic. In first o'clock, that is to say the acute ones, the predominant symptoms are the pain and the deafness, accompanied in many occasions of fever; they can also show up acúfenos or buzzes of hearing of different type (beeps of type pulsátil, whistles, stream of vapor, etc.), as well as, not always, a sensation of instability or slight insecurity that it constitute the symptom called vertigo.

The half acute otitis, if you are not quickly, you will produce supuración and, like in some extraneous otitis, you also here flow of the extraneous hearing a white xanthic liquid that stain the cottons and the pillow.

The leading cause of this supuracuión resides in a nasal infection that for via tubal, that is to say, for the Eustachian tube that communicate the nasal graves with the tympanic box or half hearing, it is transmitted at this last. The appearance of this supuración indicates that the drum membrane or eardrum that it are kind of a diaphragm that separate the extraneous hearing of the half hearing, have been perforated, and you are then, in general, when the acute pain that the patient entered usually disappears.

The otitis interns, they also receive the laberinitis name, since in this case the inflammation resides in the interior hearing or labyrinth. In general they constitute a sequel of the otitis stockings festered chronicles, to those that when not being treated properly, they affect the interior hearing. Your main symptoms are: the supuración, the deafness, the hearing buzzes and the vertigo.