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.
I had ringing in my ears initially, but I think it was from three weeks of the noise of the high-volume oxygen machine I had next to me.
Tinnitus mentioned.
No thanks. 10 years of playing live on stage turned up to 11 gave me all the ear ringing I need.
I live next to EMT HQ.
Their sirens are the only thing louder.................
A virus and infection caused my tinnitus and labyrinthitis, which I’ve had for 25 years. Fun stuff.
A sure fire way to increase males taking the jab is to tell them COVID causes permanent erectile dysfunction.
My Dr. said tinnitus can be caused by anything even knee pain. So I suppose a RPG hit, landmine, firing an M60, artillery, mortar attacks had nothing to do with it.
Nah...........................
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Yeah but did you ever eat 50 eggs?
Not worried, I have suffered with Tinnitus in both ears for forty years and it’s about all I do hear in my deaf ear.
i thought they were talking about the tinnitus symptom a year ago. Not new
So you are the covid source.
I wonder if Helen Keller had the tinn ..?
Start looking at the meds you take as a possible cause. I substituted melatonin for ibuprofen as my nighttime sleep aid, and my tinnitus went away. It comes back temporarily if I take ibuprofen or a few other meds.
If stuff really worked the veterans administration would be the first to take it up as the largest disability they pan is Tinnitus. It would not bother so much if there were just a few tones.
When they finally turned the thing off as I shifted to the regular O2, it was gloriously quiet!
In the hospital, everyone wore a mask, and most wore a face shield, too. Many were foreign-born with accents. Between the mask, the shield, the accents, AND the high-volume O2 machine, I only understood every third word. Communication improved rapidly once they turned off that bloody machine.
But then they evicted me about 4 days later. LOL!
CDC wants to ban NAC. I just went to look up what it was and found an article stating that.
All the diseases that were here before the Wuhan bio-weapon are still here.
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Happen to a coworker of mine AFTER he received Pfizer x2 jab. Left side of his face developed Bells Palsy and nasty facial/eye lid twitch...still ongoing today. It’s been about 2 months since his last vax.
He told me that he has ringing in his left ear as well. Very neurological side effect of the Covid jab.
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