Is deafness a terminal illness?

No, early active treatment of acute and chronic suppurative otitis media and secretory otitis media is an important measure to prevent and treat conductive deafness. For sensorineural deafness, the emphasis is on prevention, early detection and treatment.

The method is as follows:

[surgical treatment]

Tympanoplasty has a certain effect on improving hearing of conductive deafness. The application of total artificial ossicles and partial artificial ossicles obviously improved the hearing effect of tympanoplasty for conductive deafness.

[Other treatment]

Cochlear implant is suitable for patients with severe to extremely severe sensorineural deafness; Cochlear implant is the only medical device that can restore hearing for deaf patients. Vibrating acoustic bridge and bone anchor hearing AIDS are suitable for patients with moderate and severe sensorineural deafness, conductive deafness and mixed deafness.

[Prognosis]

Implantable hearing AIDS cover almost all kinds of hearing recovery treatments for patients with different degrees of hearing loss, so that deaf patients with different degrees, even deaf patients, can recover to near normal hearing, so that deaf patients can enter normal schools and even communicate by telephone.

[drug therapy]

Treatment of sensorineural deafness and central deafness: According to different causes and different stages of the disease, different drugs can be used for comprehensive treatment, such as drugs to enhance neurotrophic and improve cochlear microcirculation, various vasodilators, and biological products to promote metabolism.