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In recent months, researchers have linked many symptoms to light and severe COVID-19 infections. They also learned that some people continue to undergo symptoms for months after an infection - even those who initially underwent a lightweight infection. Now, health experts reported that there may be a new scary symptom related to the auditory loss of the virus.

CnnReports that in July, Meredith Harrell began to feel the ringtone in his right ear and quickly realized that she can not hear. "It was as if someone spilled a switch", she told the exit. A week later, she took a COVID-19 test and it was positive - despite no other symptoms. However, she went to an ootologist - a doctor specializing in the hearing - which told her that her hearing loss was linked to her coronavirus infection. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.

Hearing loss could be part of COVID infection

"We understand more and more people have a loss of hearing as part of their COVID infection" Dr. Matthew Stewart, Otolaryngology Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told CNN.

Although it is not completely rare for viruses, including measles, mumps and meningitis - to cause hearing loss, the symptom has not been officially linked to Coronavirus. However, some studies support a connection.

A study published in theInternational newspaper of audiologyfound that 13% of the 138 people are discharged from the hospital reported to the hearing change or the ringing of the ears. Another report, theSurvey length, found that 233 out of 1,567 Covid survivors surveyed reported tinnitus or "ringing in the ears".

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Coronavirus in the middle ear

Stewart, who was part of a study published inJama Otolaryngology - Surgery of the head and neck, conducted autopsies on three deceased from Covid, finding new coronaviruses in the middle ear and the mastoid bone of the skull, located just behind the ear.

He told CNN that he was "suspect that [the coronavirus novel] has the potential to be worse" than other viruses in terms of hearing damage, because of his blood coagulation capabilities in other parts of the body and possibly in the "blood extremely small ships" in the inner ear.

"The capillaries of the inner ear are the smallest of the human body, so it should not be much to block them," says Kevin Munro, an audiological scientist who has co-written theIJA to study. And to cross this pandemic with your healthiest, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.