| Most loss of hearing follows a standard pattern. As | | | | milder symptoms of this disease. |
| the person gets older, they lose the ability to hear the | | | | The second is genetic factors. Low frequency loss of |
| higher frequencies. By the time most people reach | | | | hearing often runs in families, and many people with it |
| their mid-twenties, they can't hear the highest pitched | | | | can trace it several generations back. People with the |
| sounds that teenagers can hear anymore. Women | | | | genetic form usually start losing their ability to hearing |
| and children become harder to understand than men. | | | | lower frequencies in childhood. In many ways children |
| This is high frequency hearing loss -- the most | | | | with this form of hearing loss are more fortunate than |
| common loss of hearing and the form most hearing | | | | those with others, since all the sounds needed for |
| aids are designed for. | | | | normal speech are audible, and they can learn to talk |
| But what about the people whose loss is the exact | | | | normally without the need for speech therapy. |
| opposite of this? The people that can hear women | | | | The third possible cause is childhood illness. In some |
| better than men and can't hear the roar of machinery | | | | instances, diseases such as Measles and the Chicken |
| that bothers most sufferers? These people have low | | | | Pox can lead to low frequency hearing loss, though |
| frequency hearing loss. | | | | this is very, very rare. The advent of vaccines for |
| You can probably already tell that it's uncommon. | | | | such diseases is making it even rarer. |
| There are only a few things that bring about this | | | | People unable to hear low frequencies have different |
| condition. | | | | sounds causing them problems than the average high |
| The first and most common cause is Meniere's | | | | frequency sufferer. As said earlier, men will be more |
| Disease. It's a rare condition caused by a weakening | | | | difficult to understand than women. In addition, |
| of the membrane in the ear, and in addition to low | | | | consonant sounds are slightly higher-pitched than |
| frequency hearing loss, it causes episodes of vertigo, | | | | vowel sounds, and so they're easier to hear. Thunder, |
| uncontrollable falling down, nausea, ringing in the ears, | | | | car engines, appliances, and other machinery are often |
| and feeling that the ears are blocked up. Sufferers of | | | | difficult to hear or inaudible. Traffic noises are also |
| this disease usually feel exhausted after these | | | | hard, which is one of the dangers of this form of |
| episodes. The low frequency hearing loss is one of the | | | | hearing loss. |