If your child has ever had an ear infection, you know how scary they can be. The pain is intense, and you may worry that it will cause permanent hearing damage. While it’s possible for a severe ear infection to cause hearing damage, that is rare: most ear infection-related hearing loss will resolve with the …
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The most common causes of hearing damage are well known: long-term exposure to noise higher than 80 decibels, like repeated exposure to factory machinery, loud music or lawn equipment, or one-time exposure to very loud noise such as an explosion or gunshot near your ear. Other lesser-known sources of hearing loss can also have an …
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