What is the cause of deafness?

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Deafness has congenital factors and acquired factors, suffering from deafness, the ear can not hear the voice, affecting the communication with people, affecting the normal social activities, excluding external factors, what can cause deafness? Let's understand the causes of deafness.

What is the cause of deafness?

Due to genetic factors, if there are patients with congenital and early-onset deafness in the family, or their parents are close relatives, then they are more likely to suffer from deafness than ordinary people.

If the mother used contraceptives before pregnancy, or had fever or upper respiratory tract infection during pregnancy; Or used ototoxic drugs, such as streptomycin, kanamycin, gentamicin, the fetus may have ear diseases, such as deafness.

Pregnant women do not have regular prenatal examination, abnormal fetal position, pregnancy induced hypertension, threatened abortion or prenatal bleeding, etc; Or childbirth is not smooth, dystocia, then the child may also suffer from deafness.

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There are also many external factors that can lead to deafness, such as injury, noise, etc. we must pay more attention to them.