There is
a special kind of hearing loss, often senorineural, which is referred to as
cookie bite hearing loss. Now why cookies bite? Because the affected person’s
hearing curve located in the ear looks like cookies, which are mostly U-shaped.
It is also known as the U-shaped hearing loss or the pool hearing loss or the
soup plate hearing loss.
The
affected person has huge problems is hearing mid-wave frequencies and sounds.
Usually the human and other worldly sounds are mid-frequency based, so the
person suffering from cookie-bite hearing loss loses a major chunk of their
hearing power. While, other people who suffer from problems like inability to
catch high and low frequency however they counter this by applying suitable
hearing aids.
The Cookie
Bite Hearing Loss
is often hereditary and mostly discovered first when a hearing test is taken on
the newborn. If anything as such arises, the parents tested first. If not
detected during the early ages, this kind of hearing loss is often discovered
when people are between the age of thirty and forty. This is basically a type
of hearing impairment which is characterised by the inability to hear
mid-frequency sounds. Although the affected person might manage to have good
perception of high and low frequency sounds, he/she might not hear and hard to
follow a conversation.
In most
cases of cookie bite the loss is due to are due to a genetically inherited
conditions, rather than aging, exposure to loud noises, different illnesses and
injuries or any of the other causes that are usually responsible for the more
common types of hearing loss. Although a person is born with it, in some cases
this may not become obvious during the first years of a child’s life because
its symptoms usually begin to show and lead to more serious hearing problems
after a person reaches 30 years of age.
It is
not uncommon that the carrier of the condition may not even suspect that their
hearing ability is compromised before the age of 30-40, especially if they have
never gone through a hearing test. At a young age, a hearing check is the only
option to discover the condition even if the
symptoms
are not yet recognizable and it is highly recommended especially if any of the
parents has a history of hearing loss in the family.
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