James Bullen
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1,082 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2017
last heard Feb 2020
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What about the audiologist?
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Professor Peter Friedland is an ear, nose and throat surgeon, an ENT.
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He practices in Perth.
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can be permanent.
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The technical name for this unexpected loss of hearing is sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
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It's also known as sudden deafness.
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Estimates of how many people are affected by sudden sensorineural hearing loss vary wildly.
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The medical literature suggests it's anywhere from 5 to 160 people per 100,000 each year.
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That's a pretty loose statistic, but what we can say is that it's uncommon, but not unheard of, and is often missed by doctors.
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For those who find themselves suddenly deaf in one ear, it can be overwhelming.
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Overnight, ordinary events became distressing for Helen.
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The hearing loss is one thing, but tinnitus, a ringing, roaring or rushing sound in the ears, often comes with it.
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So what causes someone to suddenly, without warning, lose their hearing?
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So a virus or tiny amounts of bleeding or inflammation may be somehow disrupting the workings of the cochlea, a spiral-shaped cavity in the inner ear which helps convert vibrations into electrical signals for the brain.
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In other cases, the hearing loss is because of benign tumours that grow on nerves in the ear that disrupt hearing.
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You can see them on an MRI scan.
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But most of the time, we really don't know what's going on.
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Though what causes sudden deafness is often unknown, we do know what helps to treat it.
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Oral steroids.
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But the window to give steroids and save someone's hearing is just three days.
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