Başak Çaypınar Eser said, “The COVID-19 disease has affected our lives as well as the whole world since March 2020. The signs of the initial viral disease and the viral infection that is currently mutated differ significantly.” She continued her words as follows: “While the initial findings were mostly post-nasal drip, flu, muscle pain, fever, nowadays it has turned into a form that causes headache, flu and severe joint pain that affects young people. While the first emergence form causes serious problems in adults over the age of sixty, we now see that the mutated form also causes serious infection in young people. "
“People with COVID-19 disease may have sudden hearing loss. Since COVID-19 is a disease that affects the nerves, it can also affect the auricular nerve, vestibular nerve, and facial nerve. It may show symptoms with sudden hearing loss and tinnitus by holding the auditory nerve. "
The patient may come to the clinic with complaints of sudden hearing loss, decrease in hearing or buzzing in his/her ear. Çaypınar said that hearing loss and tinnitus are not common symptoms of COVID-19 and these symptoms may occur due to nerve involvement.
Regarding the sudden hearing loss treatment applied in COVID-19 patients, “It is a question that a protocol regarding whether cortisone treatment is appropriate or not is not clear yet. While cortisone treatment starts at 1mg / kg in patients with normal sudden hearing loss, we may be worried about starting treatment in this way in Covid-19 patients. " said.
Then she continued her words: “Sudden hearing loss in coronavirus patients; They need to be evaluated in multiple ways due to the general condition of the patient, the condition of the symptoms and the possibility of suppressing the immune system.”
"In patients with COVID-19, sudden hearing loss due to nerve damage can be seen in the area of Otorhinolaryngology, hearing loss and tinnitus may give symptoms." Çaypınar “Apart from that, we can see patients in the form of facial paralysis, that is, peripheral facial nerve damage. In fact, some of the patients can continue their daily life with these symptoms without knowing that they are COVID-19. "
Assist. Prof. Dr. Başak Çaypınar Eser said, “As a result, we need to learn to live with this disease, which will continue until the mutated form of this disease loses its power by mutating again, and perhaps will last for years.”
