Health
A Covid-19 patient in the UK now has permanent hearing loss – South China Morning Post
The man was on a ventilator for 30 days due to COVID-19, and then noticed his hearing worsened. He’s the sixth case of COVID-19-related hearing loss.
An otherwise healthy 45-year-old man in the UK lost his hearing after having COVID-19, making him the first reported case of such an instance in the country, according to a new case study in BMJ Case Reports.
The man, whose only underlying condition was asthma, experienced sudden onset sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), or mild-to-severe hearing loss over a three-day period due to inner-ear damage.
According to the doctors who authored the case report, only five other instances of COVID-19-r…
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