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Researchers continue to learn more about how COVID-19 infections have an impact on long-term health on those who are resetting the virus, which has killed more than 215,000 Americans in less than nine months. Survivors reported a series of symptoms, ranging from physics to psychological. But one of the most frightening so far is highlighted in a new case study published inBMJ case reports: Irreversible hearing loss. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.

"He noticed tinnitus and sudden hearing loss of appearance"

The report, with the courtesy of the College University London and the hospital of the Royal National Gorge, Nose and Ear, details the case of a 45-year-old asthmatic man who was hospitalized for a serious Covid infection -19. After having been intuulated for more than 30 days, he developed tinnitus in his left ear, then the sudden loss of his hearing.

"A 45-year-old patient with asthma presented at our otolaryngology department after a week of hearing loss while at the hospital for the treatment of COVID-19," The report is read. "A week after the extubation and transfer of the intensive care unit, he noticed tinnitus on the left and a sudden hearing loss of the hearing. He had no previous history of hearing loss or pathology of the hear."

The doctors tried to treat it with "the administration of steroids" for seven days ", which resulted in a partial subjective improvement of its hearing." However, after other treatments, his audience failed to improve.

After conducting in-depth research, they identified three case reports and two control studies connecting hearing loss to Covid-19.

A study published in theInternational newspaper of audiologyDetermined that 13% of the 138 people were discharged from the hospital reported to the hearing change or the ring tone. TheSurvey lengthAlso found that 233 out of 1,567 Covid survivors surveyed reported tinnitus or "ringtones in the ears".

However, they noted that "hearing loss and tinnitus are symptoms observed in patients with Covid-19 viruses and flu, but have not been highlighted". Researchers hope that their findings will encourage other experts in medicine to keep an eye on the hearing loss induced by the COOD.

"Screening for hearing loss is suggested in hospital environments to avoid missing the treatment window and reduce the morbidity associated with hearing loss," they writes.

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"More and more people have an auditory loss"

During the weekend,CNN profiledAn American woman who has also lost beyond an ear after having suffered coronavirus infection. "We understand more and more people have a loss of hearing as part of their COVID infection"Dr. Matthew Stewart, Otolaryngology Associate Professor in Johns Hopkins Medicine who was part of a study published inJama Otolaryngology - Surgery of the head and neck, said at the exit.

As part of his study, he led autopsies on three deceased by Covid. He found the virus in the middle ear and the mastoid bone of the skull, located just behind the ear.

It is "suspect that [the coronavirus novel] has the potential to be worse" than other viruses in terms of hearing damage, because of its blood coagulation capabilities in other parts of the body and possibly in "vases Extremely small "in the inner ear. If you have experienced one of the symptoms mentioned above, call a health professional and to cross this pandemic with your healthiest, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.