10yo failed hearing test
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Anonymous
| 10 yo DS just failed hearing screening at well visit? Of course now I'm freaking out. Anyone been there with a school-age kid? What did it turn out to be? Also, he was recently diagnosed with ADHD. Is there any way that he failed the test because of inattention? |
Anonymous
Yes that is certainly possible |
Anonymous
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Both my boys have failed it at some point in elementary school.
They are 8 and 10 and never had a single ear infection in their lives. They have never been on antibiotics. I panicked both times and took them to audiologist. Both kids it was due to either allergies or remanants of a cold. Neither had cold or allergy symptoms at the time, but older one got a prescription for Nasonex nasal spray. It's normal and not permanent. |
Anonymous
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I would take them to an ENT to be screened by an audiologist.
If it isn't a temporary loss as PP described, then you may want to re-think the inattentive ADHD diagnosis. The inattentiveness may have been exacerbated by the hearing issues. |
Anonymous
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Go to an audiologist to double check - it could just be an ear infection or cold. Or it could be a mild-moderate hearing loss, which often can be confused with ADHD or make the symptoms of ADHD more pronounced.
Too often we see kids who don't pass the hearing screening and the parents don't follow up on it (sometimes every single year!) Don't make that mistake. It may be nothing... or it may be something... better safe then sorry. |
Anonymous
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My son failed a hearing test because of wax in his ear, but his pediatrician cleaned his ear out and had him redo the screening in the same appointment.
Definitely get it checked out. |
Anonymous
| I failed a hearing test in elementary school because I thought that the lowest beeps were from the other machine, which another nurse was using to test another child. When everyone figured this out, I retook it and passed it. |
Anonymous
| My 5 yr old just failed her hearing test. We scheduled an appointment with an ENT. I am a wreck. |
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Wow people relax. This is not the end of the world. Take child to pediatric ENT and you should get an audiologist in that appointment. If that doesn't happen, take to ENT then to audiologist after the ENT.
My child failed the hearing test at age 1 year. He has bilateral high frequency hearing loss in both ears. He wears hearing aids. |
Anonymous
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For boys its quite common that the lining of their inner ear is thick and they require grommets to allow the passageway to open fully and help them hear properly.
My cousin had this some 30+ years ago and now he is is a doctor he deals with a lot of kids (mostly boys) who have a similar condition. |
Anonymous
Why does this make you a wreck? I've lived with a hearing loss all my life, and it's no big thing. |
Anonymous
Why not? Parents want the best for their children, and, as someone with hearing loss, it's a lot easier to get by in the world with normal hearing. |
Anonymous
You must mean the middle ear and the use of tubes to help clear middle ear infections that are recurrent or chronic. |
Anonymous
No that is NOT what I mean.Sometimes boys ears do not develop at the right speed - nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of infection. Its about the lining and it not being open enough to allow in adequate sound. That is what grommets are for. |
Anonymous
Would you also be a wreck if your child needed glasses? I get that you're concerned for your child, but hearing aids are far from the end of the world and interfere minimally with everyday life. (eg battery dying in the middle of a movie) I mean this only kindly.  I hope that the appointment gives you the best info possible.
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