{"id":1853,"date":"2020-06-16T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:50:48","slug":"what-is-unilateral-hearing-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/what-is-unilateral-hearing-loss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Unilateral Hearing Loss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unilateral hearing loss is defined as hearing loss that affects only one ear or that is substantially worse in one ear than the other. Severe or profound unilateral hearing loss is sometimes called unilateral deafness or single-sided deafness (SSD). Unilateral hearing loss can be conductive or sensorineural and is marked by having one \u201cgood ear\u201d and one \u201cbad ear.\u201d This condition is quite common, affecting about 60,000 people in the U.S.<\/p>\n<h2>Signs of Unilateral Hearing Loss<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"What Is Unilateral Hearing Loss?\" src=\"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/large-iStock-541602928-optimized-1-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Older bearded male looking off into the distance with a cellphone in his hand\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1322\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the usual signs of hearing loss \u2013 like frequently asking people to repeat themselves and turning up the volume on the TV much louder than others prefer \u2013 unilateral hearing loss has some of its own symptoms. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Difficulty determining the direction of a sound source<\/li>\n<li>Problems understanding speech in noisy environments<\/li>\n<li>Trouble hearing sounds coming from a certain side<\/li>\n<li>Turning your \u201cgood ear\u201d to your conversation partner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Causes of Unilateral Hearing Loss<\/h2>\n<p>Unilateral hearing loss has many potential causes, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genetics<\/li>\n<li>Trauma\/head injury<\/li>\n<li>Acoustic neuroma<\/li>\n<li>Viral\/bacterial infection<\/li>\n<li>Maternal illness<\/li>\n<li>Microtia<\/li>\n<li>Meniere\u2019s disease<\/li>\n<li>Mastoiditis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Treatment of Unilateral Hearing Loss<\/h2>\n<p>Unilateral hearing loss can be treated surgically or non-surgically. Most commonly, the condition is treated with hearing aids, but severe or profound cases may be treated with surgical implants.<\/p>\n<h3>Hearing Aids<\/h3>\n<p>If the affected ear has some hearing left, a traditional hearing aid can be used. Hearing aids work by amplifying sound to a level the inner ear can detect.<\/p>\n<p>If the \u201cbad ear\u201d has little or no hearing left and the \u201cgood ear\u201d has normal hearing, a special hearing aid called a CROS hearing aid is used. This device works by sending sound from the affected ear to the normal ear via wireless transmission.<\/p>\n<p>If the \u201cbad ear\u201d has little or no hearing and the \u201cgood ear\u201d also has some level of hearing loss, a BiCROS hearing aid is used, which both sends sound from the affected ear to the better ear and also amplifies sounds picked up by the good ear so they can be heard more easily.<\/p>\n<h3>Surgical Implants<\/h3>\n<p>If hearing aids are not effective for treating a patient\u2019s unilateral hearing loss, an audiologist may recommend a surgical solution. A cochlear implant is used to treat sensorineural hearing loss, and a bone anchored hearing aid is used for conductive hearing loss.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about unilateral hearing loss, contact the experts at Today\u2019s Hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unilateral hearing loss is defined as hearing loss that affects only one ear or that is substantially worse in one ear than the other. Severe or profound unilateral hearing loss is sometimes called unilateral deafness or single-sided deafness (SSD). Unilateral hearing loss can be conductive or sensorineural and is marked by having one \u201cgood ear\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"(281) 578-7500 | Unilateral hearing loss is defined as hearing loss that affects only one ear or that is substantially worse in one ear than the other.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}