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Hearing Loss: A Genetic Disease

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Hearing loss is not always a genetic disease. Causes of deafness can rapidly (ly) travel (v) from ear infections, trauma, loud noise, some medication, birth defects, heredity, and aging. In this paper I will be discussing a few of these types of these causes. [3] Unfortunately hearing loss affects young and old people and even dogs. [2] Concerning pets, I have learned that these diseases can affect pets too. [6] Hearing loss is imperfect (adj). Hearing loss at birth is called congenital hearing loss. This terrible (adj) type of deafness can either be caused by genetic or nongenetic factors. [2] During pregnancy nongenetic factors that cause this type of deafness range from low birth weight, lack of oxygen, prematurity, and many more. [3] Typically genetic factors which is hereditary can either appear (v) when the baby is born or later on in its life. Some other genetic losses of hearing are autosomal recessive or autosomal dominat. There are some mysteriously (ly) rare types of genetic hearing loss such as mitochondrial inheritance patters or X-linked related to the sex-chromosome. [6] Deafness at birth is heartbreaking. …show more content…

Dogs can consequently (ly) suffer from heredity and damaged ears. Even though some dogs are deaf they still live normal full lives. One type of deafness that can affect dogs is blocked ear canals. Blockage in the ear canal is when the wax, debris, hair, or if an object is lodged in the ear. The deafness will travel (v) out when the object is removed. Some dogs if they are qualified (adj) hunters can experience deafness from noise trauma from shotgun blasts if they are close to the gun. [6] Dog eras are very sensitive. [2] Ultimately Dalmatians are the most famous breed to suffer from deafness. Other breeds are beagles, bull terriers, collies, and many more. These breeds suffer Congenital Deafness. Congenital Deafness happens at

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