Study Finds Hearing Testing for COVID-19 Patients in ICU. It turned out that a new virus can cause permanent deafness.

Coronavirus Infection May Cause Sudden and Permanent Hearing Loss, University College London Experts Warn. They emphasize that such problems need to be diagnosed at an early stage so that people do not face deafness and receive timely treatment.. Every month, science receives more and more information about how the coronavirus affects the human body.. It is already known that people experience a variety of difficulties, ranging from loss of taste and smell, and ending with damage to internal organs..

In BMJ Case Reports, scientists from London report a 45-year-old patient with asthma who was admitted to the intensive care unit with coronavirus and was hooked up to mechanical ventilation. The drugs he received included the antiviral drug remdesivir and intravenous steroid injections.. A week after moving the patient to a regular room, he developed tinnitus or ringing in the ears, and then the left ear completely lost the ability to perceive sounds.

According to doctors, none of the drugs used in the treatment of the patient can provoke hearing damage, and before the man had no problems with the ear canals or eardrums. Further research did not find signs of autoimmune diseases, the man did not have the flu or HIV - previously these disorders were associated with hearing loss. Therefore, the cause of partial deafness is still the coronavirus itself..

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