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What are some cause and signs and symptoms of hearing loss?
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Hearing loss!: Frequent signs are inability to hear a single voice in a crowd, loss of ability to discriminate between words with fricatives or sibilants and tinnitus. Test your parents by whispering behind their back.
Answered 6/7/2012
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Hearing loss: Causes- wax, ext. Otitis, otitis media, eustachian tube dysfunction, mastoiditis, sensorineural deafness, meneires disease etc. All these can cause hearing loss and signs depend on the underlying cause.
Answered 8/27/2012
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