The cause of your hearing loss is human to your situation. There are multiple issues that produce diminished hearing sensitivity. Occasionally those triggers are easily determined, while some derive from presumption and might remain vague and indistinct. Predominantly, hearing impairment results from the following (in no particular order): aging, middle ear infections, excessive sound exposure, head injury, ear trauma, congenital defects, genetic disorders, or pharmaceutical means (ototoxic medications or treatments).

There are three main types of handicap: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed reduction.

Every kind of reduction has multiple triggers.

Conductive impairment is a result of illness, dysfunction, or malformation of the outer ear, middle ear, or mix of both. Congenital malformations of the ear causing a lack of complete formation of this auricle/pinna or ear canal may cause this type of impairment.

Perforations or holes at the ear drum from disease or trauma can also be known causes. Quite commonly, middle ear infections (otitis media) cause conductive impairments. Impaired or broken connections of the middle ear bones due to trauma will also cause a synergistic reduction of hearing. Most conductive impairments could be treated medically and improved upon.

Sensorineural impairment is a result of illness, dysfunction, lesion, or malformation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, or even a combination of the two. Congenital and hereditary disorders may cause a sensorineural hearing loss. Maternal infections during pregnancy (e.g., herpes, toxoplasmosis, bacterial diseases ) may result in sensorineural impairment for your kid.

Sensory impairment is frequently the result of typical aging processes (presbycusis), excessive noise exposure, pharmaceutical intervention (ototoxic drugs or treatments), vascular diseases and disorders, and head trauma. Other causes could include kidney disease and acquired infections (e.g., meningitis, labyrinthitis, flu, and mumps).

Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear, usually presenting dizziness, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), and progressive sensorineural hearing loss as its most important symptoms. The loss may be centered only in the region of the auditory nerve. This handicap is often call neural loss or nerve deafness, and is generally due to tumors (e.g., acoustic neuroma) on or near the hearing and balance nerve.

Mixed hearing impairment is a combination of conductive and sensorineural elements. Causes might be a mix of some of those sources of loss from the outer/middle ear and internal ear/auditory (hearing) nerve. Rehabilitation for mixed reductions may combine therapies used for both kinds of hearing loss.