The Delta variant can damage your hearing. A symptom of infection is hearing impairment

The Delta variant – the most dangerous form of coronavirus to date – can cause hearing damage. About this, as well as about other new symptoms of the so-called Indian COVID-19 mutation, doctors from India informed already a few weeks ago. This is confirmed by Polish experts.

1. The Delta mutation is currently the most dangerous variant of the coronavirus. It is already present in over 90 countries. Dozens of cases were also detected in Poland
2. The spectrum of symptoms of infection with the Delta variant is getting wider. There are reports of scientists including about gastric ailments, tonsillitis, sore throat, as well as about impaired hearing in patients
3. The exact pathophysiology of disorders arising in the body infected with COVID-19 is not yet known. However, there is evidence that the virus can affect the middle ear
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It begins to dominate in dozens of countries around the world. The speed of its transmission means that there are more and more infected, and most likely it also threatens the vaccinated. The Delta variant – the most dangerous form of the coronavirus to date – can produce symptoms that have not been previously seen in people with COVID-19. Among them are hearing impairment, and in some cases even complete loss of hearing.

Delta mutation – new symptoms of coronavirus infection

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that Delta will soon become the dominant disease variant worldwide. Currently, this variant has been detected in 92 countries, and in Poland, 80 cases have been detected so far infection with the Delta variant – informs the portal abczdrowie.pl.

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Delta symptoms are different from the original coronavirus. They can also have more serious complications. Among the symptoms of this mutation, Indian doctors mention, among others gastric discomfort, severe tonsillitis as well blood clots so serious that they can lead to tissue necrosis and the need to amputate, for example, fingers or feet. One of the worst symptoms of a Delta mutation can also be severe hearing loss.

– Coronavirus has the potential to damage the nervous system. With the previous variants, the nerve pads were more often involved, which resulted in problems with smell and taste. Hearing disorders are more frequently observed in the Indian variant. They also have a neurological basis – says the portal abczdrowie.pl, Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski, pediatrician, immunologist and expert of the Supreme Medical Council for combating COVID-19.

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Coronavirus: Delta variant can attack the middle ear

The expert also adds that hearing damage can occur in areas near the middle ear. Infection with the Delta variant often begins with a sore throat or tonsillitiswhich also has to do with the same part of the body. However, the exact causes of hearing loss in COVID-19 patients are still unknown.

Hearing-related symptoms are not entirely new, however, as they have appeared earlier in patients infected with the so-called British mutation. However, these were only a few cases.

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As abczdrowie.pl informed, prof. Małgorzata Wierzbicka, head of the Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology at the Medical University of Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań, the coronavirus can cause cases of sensorineural hearing loss or tinnitus. There have also been cases of acute otitis media.

COVID-19 shuts down the senses

Earlier studies indicated that the SARS-CoV-2 virus inhabits and multiplies in the epithelium of the nasal cavity, the olfactory furrow and the nasopharynx. Hence, in some patients the symptom was loss of smell or taste. However, in several people who died from COVID-19 in the US, coronavirus was also found in the middle ear during an autopsy. Reports published in “JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery”, quoted by the portal abczdrowie.pl, say about it. So there is a possibility that the inflammatory reaction caused by the virus not only “turns off” the sense of smell, but also irritates the epithelium of the Eustachian tube. However, the mechanism of such symptoms is not yet fully clear.

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