DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i06.051

Pages: 2125-2126

As we can cure the conductive deafness by surgery, the sensorineural deafness is still a challenge to us. Children having mixed loss of hearing invariably suffer from the point of view of education and development of language and therefore it becomes essential to study such cases so that we can prevent the sensori neural deafness in chronic suppurative otitis media.One hundred patients of chronic suppurative otitis media with sensori neural hearing loss, either alone or more commonly, with mixed loss were studied in this series. The patients were carefully selected after proper history and careful examination to exclude the above mentioned criteria to rule out the other possible causes of sensori neural loss.Though cases with use of ototoxic systemic drugs were rejected, cases with use of topical ear drops were included as their use was found to be common in chronic otitis media. The different ear drops used by patients showed large variety of nature of contents and varying period of use. Many patients could not inform the name of the drops they had used in past.In our study, use of topical antibiotic ear drops for long duration as a cause of sensori neural hearing loss was not statistically significant.