audiology

Audiology is the study regarding the causes of deafness and decreased auditory perception. These studies aim to create new diagnostic and treatment methods (surgery, assisting hearing devices, etc.).

Risk-factors for deafness:

Hereditary risk-factors;

Premature Infants;

Hypoxic state during gestation or delivery (Low oxygen content in the infant);

Infectious diseases during pregnancy (measles, syphilis, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasmosis, herpes);

Using ototoxic medications during pregnancy (their irrational use, wrong dosage, or any decision that might lead to auditory nerve damage);

Rhesus factor incompatibility;

Infectious diseases (meningitis; measles, mumps, chronic infectious otitis);

Head or ear trauma;

Ear wax or foreign bodies in the external auditory canal;

Loud noise, explosions;

Decreased auditory perception due to external ear damage is mostly successfully treated (there might be some exceptions).