Is there any chance of curing congenital deafness?

Children are the hope of a family and the treasures of their parents. Once health problems occur, it will be a lifelong regret for the parents. In people's minds, deafness is a hereditary disease. If the parents' hearing is healthy, most of the children born will have no problems.

Is there any chance of curing congenital deafness?

For congenital deafness, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination. Some can be treated, and some require Hearing Aids and cochlear implants.

Congenital deafness is mainly caused by congenital deafness. Due to deafness, the person cannot learn to speak, resulting in deafness and muteness. Congenital deafness cannot be treated with drugs and can only be treated with hearing intervention. The best age for hearing intervention is 0-3 years old, especially 6 months old. If you still have residual hearing, you can get a hearing aid. If there is no residual hearing, some hospitals can provide cochlear implant treatment for free. It is recommended to contact the local Disabled Persons’ Federation. If you have any uncomfortable symptoms, it is better to go to the hospital for a check-up.

We don’t know how old the patient is. If he is an adult, this kind of congenital deafness has no therapeutic significance. Because this condition is caused by deafness and muteness, congenital deafness causes the patient to be unable to hear sounds during the language learning period (around 2 years old), losing the opportunity to learn language, resulting in the vocal cords not being able to produce sounds. However, if a newborn is found to have congenital deafness, cochlear implantation can be performed around the age of 2 to promote hearing recovery, and at the same time, language pronunciation training can be performed to avoid the occurrence of deafness. But the cost is expensive, usually reaching hundreds of thousands or more.

Hearing is an important way for humans to perceive the world, and it is also an important source of information for understanding the outside world. However, one in every 1,000 newborns is born with congenital deafness, of which more than 60% are caused by genetic factors. Hundreds of deafness-related genes have been discovered so far. About 5%-6% of the normal population carries at least one deafness gene.

About 21% of deaf people carry GJB2 gene mutations, which is the most common deafness-causing gene in China. The SLC26A4 gene is the second most common deafness-causing gene in China, with a mutation detection rate of 12.7%; 4.51% of deaf people carry mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene mutations, making up the majority of drug-induced deafness groups.

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