Can tympanic membrane perforation affect hearing?

summary

If there are some problems inside the ear, it will affect the patient's hearing, which is a common sequela. Suffering from ear tympanic membrane perforation, the patient's hearing will also be damaged. Especially in patients with severe disease, the hearing loss is very fast in a short time. So many patients with this disease will ask if they can still hear if they have tympanic membrane perforation. Now let's answer this question. Let's listen to my opinions and share my experience!

Can tympanic membrane perforation affect hearing?

In most cases, the patient can hear it. It's just that people with this disease have some internal obstacles in their ears. It will affect the transmission of sound. So the patient's hearing is not as clear as usual. But most patients can hear the sound.

If the patient's condition is serious, improper treatment or nursing may lead to severe hearing loss. Especially some patients with cholesteatoma. The difficulty of treatment will increase. There are also some patients with severe hearing loss.

Although there will be symptoms of hearing loss, but patients can be treated to improve the disease, severe patients can also be repaired by surgery. In addition to hearing loss, patients with tympanic membrane perforation may also induce some serious complications. For example, middle ear infection or cholesteatoma.

matters needing attention

Many patients with this disease are younger infants. Early childhood patients often due to nasal secretions or milk is very easy to flow through the eustachian tube or choke into the middle ear and acute otitis media, leading to this disease. So parents' care is very critical.