Do childhood earaches cause hearing loss later?

Possible: If there is recurrent ear infections or fluid build up behind the ear-- can lead to some hearing loss.

Depends: One problem in the pre-antibiotic era was a condition where the ear bones became immobile because of chronic infections.There is even a specialty of ear docs who would replace them. With today's availability of meds and monitoring this is seldom a problem. Any time they have a middle ear infection there is a transient decline in hearing, but it usually returns to baseline after it clears with rx.