Posted on 08/27/2021 12:13:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
Researchers discovered another coronavirus symptom that might appear after surviving COVID-19. Some patients who experienced severe cases of COVID-19 complained of hearing loss and ringing in their ears (tinnitus). It’s unclear whether the virus infected the ear directly, impacting hearing, or whether other factors caused the hearing problems. Just when we thought we knew everything about the way COVID-19 impacts the human body, a new study reveals another puzzling symptom that may affect patients infected with the novel coronavirus. And, like most COVID-19 symptoms, this one wouldn’t be strong enough to allow physicians to diagnose the illness without a test. That’s one of the strengths of this contagion. It lacks any particular signs that would enable physicians and patients to diagnose the disease without a PCR test. What’s worse is that symptoms can take up to two weeks to develop, and some people do not develop any symptoms at all.
Out of all the COVID-19 signs reported so far, there is one that’s pretty telling, and that’s the sudden loss of smell followed by the loss of taste. However, not all infected people experience them. The new symptom that scientists discovered concerns a different sense, as it appears that the virus can impact hearing as well. But unlike the loss of taste and smell, hearing impairments appear after COVID-19 recovery.
British researchers published a study in the International Journal of Audiology last month, explaining that some patients might risk experiencing two different hearing-related issues after COVID-19. Some people reported hearing loss, while others suffered from tinnitus, which is ringing in one’s ears.
The scientists observed 121 adults who went through severe coronavirus symptoms, with 13% of them reporting hearing impairments eight weeks after discharge.
The researches can’t say for certain that the virus infected the ears of these patients, however. The hearing loss and tinnitus can result from other activities, including therapies used for COVID-19.
“We already know that viruses such as measles, mumps, and meningitis can cause hearing loss, and coronaviruses can damage the nerves that carry information to and from the brain,” University of Manchester professor of audiology Kevin Munro told Best Life about the study. “It is possible, in theory, that COVID-19 could cause problems with parts of the auditory system, including the middle ear or cochlea.”
The report mentions a different study from JAMA Otolaryngology last month that said the virus was detected in the inner ear. But that’s not enough to prove SARS-CoV-2 induced hearing loss or tinnitus.
Other factors “might include stress and anxiety, including the use of face masks that make communication more difficult, medications used to treat COVID-19 that could damage the ear, or other factors related to being critically ill,” according to Munro.
Some medicines do cause hearing complications, and COVID-19’s most controversial therapy would qualify. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have side effects that include hearing loss and tinnitus, Best Life explains, detailing a documented case from 2018, where a woman manifested those symptoms three years after regular use of hydroxychloroquine. That’s just an example of a medicine that can impact hearing. Hydroxychloroquine use didn’t come up in the British study.
The researchers say that more research is needed to investigate any direct effects of COVID-19 on the ear.
Funny people are reporting this as an adverse reaction to the covid-19 vaccines.
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Glycine and N-acetylcysteine (GlyNAC)
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Age and what you did to your hearing at earlier ages can have a big impact on your hearing. Shooting skeet and Trap with cotton balls in one’s ears doesn’t really protect your ears.
Then, throw in Navy firing ranges and later in the 1960’s with nothing to protect your ears, you have done a lot of damage to your hearing.
Finally, throw in a couple of decades of deer hunting, duck and geese and upland bird hunting without ear protection and you have some hearing impairment.
Then, add a decade + of no hunting nor shooting, and my hearing seemed to improve. My wife, adult children and even grand kids noticed and commented about that improvement.
In fact recent hearing tests up to two years ago showed no need for hearing aides/gear.
That is up to late November, 2 years ago this year. I probably had unidentified Clovid bout.
One of the lingering symptoms was a decrease in hearing ability and some tinnitus along with lack of taste and smell.
My so called poor hearing is particularly notable, when people turn their head away and try to talk to me. It drives my wife up the wall with her perfect midwest/zero accent. She has to turn her head towards me for me to understand her. The other family members and close friends look right at me and talk if they want me to hear and understand me.
Maybe I have had Covid since birth, because that’s how long my ears have been ringing??
Back when it started, “pink eye” was listed as a symptom and since I was running around every day “naked” in literally any store that was open, just for spite, I may have exhibited that one odd symptom.
I had pink eye in my right eye and have never had such a thing in my life.
Doc gave me eye drops and it went away in a few days.
And no, I am not going to go get tested for “antibodies”.
Don’t wanna be on any “lists”.
Sh!t, my ears have been ringing since Ft. Riley.
Maybe the Rona would cure it...
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Don’t wanna be on any “lists”.
AMEN brother. I guess the HIPPA laws have been thrown out the window with covid.
Same here, along with a bunch of the other symptoms they've attributed to the virus.
I know a guy that got tinnitus after getting the jab.
It’s homeopathic!.................
(N-Acetyl Cysteine)
I don’t think Walmart carries that.................
I don’t think Walmart carries that.................
Clinical Note Tinnitus following COVID-19 vaccination: report of three cases
Not just the CoupFlu.
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