Neural Hearing Loss

Neural means associated to nerve and it is the result of a trouble with the auditory nerve or the brain itself which takes place when there are troubles with the pathway from the cochlea to the brain. The major reason of neural hearing loss is acoustic neuroma which is a benevolent tumor that cultivates on the vestibular (balance) nerve and then presses alongside your auditory nerve. If you detect the tumor untimely and swiftly then immediately try to remove it because due to this you may be able to avert any future hearing loss.

One way of testing for neural hearing loss is the acoustic reflex. A tiny muscle which is known as stapedius is attached to the stapes and a tiny muscle contracts as a response to any noisy sound. This contraction of a stapedius is always acts as a process of protection to your ear. Generally the level of sound which is necessary to activate the acoustic reflex can be used as a bumpy measure of your hearing sensitivity. Always keep in mind that if your middle ear is normal then the deficiency of the acoustic reflex could signify that you have a form of neural hearing loss. Usually the acoustic reflex will linger at normal levels even if you have stern cochlear hearing loss but acoustic reflex generally disappears with moderate neural hearing losses. Normally the neural hearing loss causes a bigger loss of speech inequity as compared to sensory hearing loss because damaged nerve fibers are not able to mend or revitalize themselves like some other parts of the body.  Always remember that this form of hearing damage is enduring.

Always keep in mind that conservative hearing aids do not actually help people who suffer from neural loss as the nerve is not able to pass on the appropriate amount of information to the person's brain and the cochlear instill cannot be able to help you either unless there is some type of auditory nerve function. There are a lot of causes of neural hearing loss such as genetics, exposure to drugs, extreme noise, prenatal exposure to rubella, cytomegalovirus, RH incompatibility at birth, low birth weight caused by premature birth, elevated biliruben levels or jaundice, meningitis and some forms of contagious diseases in which mumps are included.