40% of diabetic people have hard of hearing
Posted on December 13, 2009
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Wang Grandma risk of type 2 diabetes for many years, the family discovered that her hearing is getting worse, often talking to chant, she can hear. Is not a human being older, are like this? Medical examination found that Wang Grandma’s hearing a lot worse than their peers, in fact, with diabetes. In recent years, a lot of related research, this year, the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, there are two papers of diabetes on hearing damage.
Accordingly, some experts point out that hearing loss has become a family of diabetic complications in the new member.
1 year ago, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University Department of Endocrinology, Professor Yang Jinkui in cooperation with the ENT, of 69 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and 45 cases of ordinary people the same age group was listening more. Researchers to these patients of pure tone audiometry and otoacoustic emission and other inspections. The former detection is that the patient can hear the smallest number of decibels, reflecting the patient’s subjective hearing; for the latter is the detection of patients with inner ear hearing organ’s function, are objective indicators. It was found that pure-tone audiometry diabetes incidence of hearing loss was 40.6% in the control group was only 2.2% difference between the two is obvious. The otoacoustic emission in a higher detection rate of abnormalities, and the left ear becomes more apparent. Professor Yang Jinkui said that this research shows that hearing loss is very common in patients with diabetes, it should be early diagnosis and intervention.
Clinically, many hearing-impaired people with diabetes tend to ENT doctor. SONG Hai-Tao, director of the Ministry of Health Beijing Hospital ENT physician told reporters that the treatment in patients with hearing loss, many people with diabetes. Hearing loss than their peers seriously, some people are unknowingly hearing loss, and some of the patients belonged to sudden deafness.
For diabetic patients with hearing impairments, SONG Hai-Tao that there is no specific treatment measures, the main work should be placed on prevention. She suggested that people with diabetes: 1. Strict control of blood glucose, blood lipids; 2. To avoid the use of ototoxic drugs, such as aminoglycoside antibiotics (streptomycin, gentamicin, etc.); 3. Away from the noisy environment, try to avoid wearing earplugs listening to music; 4. regular checks hearing.
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