It is difficult to imagine that popular singer Alka Yagnik, somebody who lives with the sound of music, is going through hearing loss. Revealing she has a condition called sensorineural deafness in her social media handle, she wrote, “It has been diagnosed by my docs as a rare sensory neural nerve hearing loss, due to a viral attack…This sudden, major setback has caught me completely unawares. As I attempt to come to terms with it, please keep me in your prayers.”
Sensorineural deafness is a type of hearing loss that happens because of damage to the inner ear, the place of origin of the nerve that runs from the ear to the brain, called the auditory nerve. “In fact, what many people ought to know is that many people with viral flu are reporting this condition this season. Every year, the flu season has certain dominant characteristics. This year, it’s hearing loss. This can be cured if you report it to your ENT specialist within a week, preferably 48 hours. Damage could be permanent if you don’t,” says Dr Kalpana Nagpal, Senior Consultant, ENT, Head and Neck and Robotic Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.
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