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<DIV><FONT size=4>Hi Gerardo, there is no real way to know for certain.
Premature babies usually have a lot of health conditions from not fully being
developed. On the other hand if you have parents who are carriers of
genetic conditions, you could have inherited it. Infections do cause
hearing loss, but they probably would have occurred at the time of the infection
and not years later. There are a lot of genetic hearing loss problems that
occur around puberty.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Blessings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Cheri</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/21/2014 1:58:10 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
gera1027@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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HI guys<BR>I've been wondering year after year my case for instance: I was
born <BR>premature 28 weeks, thus as far as my family remembers, and Ikind of
<BR>remember also, I was able to hear OK, but between the ages of 5-8 I kind
<BR>of lost hearing, thus when I was eight, I was fitted with my first
<BR>hearing aids. I didn't realize how much hearing loss (70%) until the
<BR>first day I took off my hearing aids to give my ears a rest, when all of
<BR>a sudden I was in a world of silence! Wow! For a moment I was scared
<BR>maybe I'd lost my hearing only during the few hours I was with the
<BR>hearing aids, but maybe all along it has been so, and I never realized?
<BR>My Vi teacher (I was in the US some time) worried I might become deaf,
<BR>thus taught me Braille at an accelerated pace thus still practice
<BR>especially for my Psychology online program in which I Braille the
<BR>outline of the topic I'm discussing and read it off.<BR>So my question is,
might it be true what my Mom says that my hearing <BR>loss was due to an ear
infection maltreated, or those who are born <BR>premature, have a tendency to
loos hearing between the ages of 5-8 like <BR>myself?<BR><BR>-- <BR>Enviado
desde mi lap<BR>Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta
Reiki<BR>Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México<BR>RompiendoBarreras espacio
de psicología/Superación Personal Sábados 10PM México http://radiogeneral.com
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