Sentences with phrase «of ear damage»

Diseases such as canine distemper is a common cause of ear damage.

Not exact matches

His research shows that in cases of hearing loss, the ear's nerve fibers become damaged before the hair cells do, and when those synaptic fibers reconnect to the hair cells, it's possible to regain hearing.

That's the path pursued by GenVec, which wants to be the Rogaine of the ears, using gene therapy to regrow damaged hair cells.

Doctors said the man had serious damage to the small bones inside one of his ears, among other issues, and would need to wear a hearing aid.

The sound quality was fair and they stayed put in my ears during my runs but ultimately, I sent in the first one for a replacement because of sweat damage and the second one failed me for the same reason.

Following those two last surgeries, some of his nerves were damaged, his one ear dropped, and his one eye was always open.

A particularly effective treatment against many cancers, platinum - based chemotherapy, has the unfortunate side effect of damaging the hair cells in the ear that are responsible for sensing sound waves, Goldrich said.

On the day before the race Behra, who lost an ear in the 1955 Irish Tourist Trophy race and suffered a score of other injuries in his yet unsuccessful push to become a world champion, damaged one 4.5 irreparably in an accident while completing a painstaking training grind.

The unfortunate this that they cause rapid, permanent damage to the tissues, including inside of the ear.

Avoiding Q - tips is a good idea because a swab can puncture baby's ear drum and / or cause damage to other parts of the ear.

According to the American Speech - Language - Hearing Association, «When held directly to the ear, as children often do, a noisy toy actually exposes the ear to as much as 120 dB of sound, a damaging dose — the equivalent of a jet plane taking off.

This is a great option for parents who want an in ear thermometer but also worry about what type of damage can be done to their child's ears.

Some of these include diarrhea, respiratory tract infection, otitis media or ear infection, pneumonia, urinary infection, necrotizing enterocolitis (damage to the intestine and colon), and invasive bacterial infection.

Over 200 medications and chemicals are known to be ototoxic, and anyone who takes these drugs is at risk of damaging their ears.

Hearing is yet one more vulnerability that until recent times faced little peril, but the chronic noise in our cities, the ubiquity of personal headphone use and the ear - damaging potential of some medication has made preserving good hearing something no parent can ignore.

In typical fashion, Cahill, who likes to listen — at the expense of action, say some — will hold hearings in the Hurricane Sandy - damaged areas downstate with an ear toward how the insurance companies responded to claims.

Using lasers instead of electrodes to vibrate the hairs in the inner ears could lead to less damaging cochlear implants

Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.

With a single local injection of the USH1G gene just after birth, the scientists observed a restoration of the structure and mechanosensory function of the inner ear hair bundles — profoundly damaged before birth -, resulting in a long - term partial recovery of hearing, and complete recovery of vestibular function in these mice.

«While there is concern about music players and other loud recreational sound exposure «damaging the ears of an entire generation,» in these participants, increasing use of music players and periodic attendance at concerts or clubs did not appear to cause the lasting damage everyone is concerned about.»

The researchers then swabbed the ears of the mice with another known irritant — to simulate tissue damage from surgery.

Because of inner - ear damage — yet another result of the crash — I had to deal with balance issues every day.

Linda Bartoshuk, a University of Florida researcher who studies how taste perception affects health, knew from earlier research that middle - ear infections can damage the chorda tympani, the nerve that carries taste information from the front of the tongue to the brain.

New research into the ringing - ear condition known as tinnitus indicates an alarming level of early, permanent hearing damage in young people who are exposed to loud music, prompting a warning from a leading Canadian researcher in the field.

«We used a mouse model of the KPro to, first of all, identify the inflammatory factors that cause damage to the eye, and then we also quantified the amount of nerve cell death in the back of the eye that mediates the optic neuropathy, and, lastly, we looked at blocking these factors with antibodies,» said Reza Dana, M.D., M.Sc., MPH, Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that cause optic neuropathy in the back of the eye following implantation of a keratoprosthesis (KPro)-- similar to what glaucoma patients experience, without the rise of pressure in the eye — and have shown that blocking one of those factors, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFa), successfully halts the development of optic nerve damage in a mouse model.

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

Instead, biophysicist Fernando Montealegre - Z detected the structure while examining three - dimensional images of the insects» inner ears from high - powered CT scans — a noninvasive technique used to examine fossilized bones and other artifacts without causing damage.

Hearing aids are mostly used in people who suffer from hearing loss because of damage to hair cells, the small sensory cells in the inner ear.

Although the mechanisms underlying this inner ear damage following sound - deprivation are not known, the authors suggest that its effects need to be considered in the management of chronic conductive hearing loss in clinic.

This part of the inner ear is difficult to study, as it is embedded in thick bone that is hard to make holes in, without causing damage.

Then, they implanted the neuron precursor cells into the ears of gerbils with damaged ear neurons and followed the animals for 10 weeks.

Many archaeologists hoped that designating Bears Ears a national monument would help to mitigate this damage by boosting the budgets of federal land managers — allowing them to hire more staff, collect more baseline data on archaeological sites and do more outreach and education.

«The inner ears of fossils can reveal a remarkable amount of information, and are very useful when the exterior of fossils are too damaged or fragile to examine.»

Five children had hearing loss, though one of them had been treated for a blood infection with an antibiotic that can cause damage to ears.

Apparently, since swimmers ear can be a result of damage to the skin of the outer ear (which allows bacteria or other pathogens to invade the ear), simple things like using cotton swabs or ear phones in the ear can make it susceptible to infection.

Swimmers ear (or otitis externa) is an infection of the outer ear that is most often caused due to moisture being trapped in the ear or some kind of damage to the skin of the outer ear, resulting in inflammation and infection.

Side effects include decreased iron absorption, vertigo, ringing in your ears, worsens the condition of glaucoma and anemia, increase heart rate and blood pressue, causes damage to the liver.

The accumulation of free radicals severely damages the inner ear and other tissues.

Supplementing your diet with a magnesium supplement can reduce noise - induced ear damage and thus reduce the likelihood of new - onset tinnitus.

Researchers say ibuprofen can reduce blood flow to the cochlea, the auditory portion of the inner ear, which could result in cellular damage and cell death.

«Although any cleaner that is removing some of the exudate and wax — which yeast or bacteria can use as food — is helpful, full - strength alcohol can burn and irritate, and hydrogen peroxide is neurotoxic — if there is any damage present to the ear drum, it can cause permanent harm.

Irritating substances can damage the fragile lining of the ear canal, making it more susceptible to bacterial infections.

What is left can be carefully wiped out using cotton balls, and avoiding the use of Q - tips whenever possible, as used incorrectly they can cause serious damage to the dogs ear drum.

The majority of dogs requiring this procedure are suffering from reoccurring ear infections that often cause permanent damage to the ear canal.

Most of the over-the-counter drugs we use to treat our own eye and ear infections will not cause lasting damage to dog bodies, but they are far from ideal.

Ear mite infections can be serious if left untreated resulting in damage to the ear canals and eardrums leaving deformity of the ears and possible deafneEar mite infections can be serious if left untreated resulting in damage to the ear canals and eardrums leaving deformity of the ears and possible deafneear canals and eardrums leaving deformity of the ears and possible deafness.

Other causes of deafness for humans and dogs typically include degenerative nerve damage, tumors or cancers centered in the ears, viral or other infectious diseases, blunt trauma and reactions to toxins or drugs, such as antibiotics or chemotherapy medications.

The third category of hearing loss exists in older cats, and is a combination of the two, resulting from nerve damage and the fusing together of the bones of the inner ear.

In cases where the infection is not treated, it can even lead to permanent damage to the internal structures of the ear.