Luckily, encountering a child with hearing impairment is very uncommon.

However, there are several causes for children to lose their hearing, whether temporarily or permanently.

These include Otitis media, congenital causes, and acquired causes.

Understanding each of these conditions will help you to narrow down the causes of your child’s hearing impairment.

• Otitis media is the inflammation of the middle part of your ear. It occurs due to fluid, which builds up behind the eardrum. These types of ear problems occur in nearly seventy five percent of children. The types of problems with Otitis media can run the entire spectrum.

  You may encounter small problems with your child’s hearing or you may have a very severe infection that requires treatment with antibiotics. Otitis media causes hearing loss because the fluid build up hinders the ear’s ability to have sound vibrate through the eardrum.

 

• Congenital hearing problems are quite difficult to track down. While congenital hearing impairment occurs in more than half the cases of children with a hearing impairment, there are several ways genetics can play a role.

  Autosomal dominant hearing loss occurs when one parent carries the dominant gene for hearing loss and passes it along to the child. It is more likely to happen if there is a male history of hearing loss in the family. X-linked hearing loss is another type of hearing loss that is linked directly with mothers passing it onto their sons but not daughters. There is also recessive hearing loss, which does not favor either gender.

 

• Acquired causes are usually caused by disease or poor decisions. Everything from meningitis to chicken pox can cause hearing loss. Head injury and noise exposure pose a significant threat to increase the risk for children with hearing impairment.

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