What to do if you fail the 42-day hearing screening?

Having hearing is a very important key factor in our ability to perceive the beauty of the world. If we lose our hearing, our world will lose a lot of beauty. Therefore, we should pay attention to our hearing and check our hearing regularly. If we find any problems, we can treat them in time. But if we fail the 42-day hearing screening, what should we do?

If hearing loss is not detected in time, it will not only affect children (speech and cognitive development, education, employment, marriage and childbearing) and families (communication barriers, psychology, and economic burden), but will also become a heavy burden on society and affect social and economic development. Modern science and technology can now perform early hearing testing and diagnosis on newborns and infants. If infants and young children who are clearly diagnosed with permanent hearing loss can receive scientific intervention and rehabilitation training within 6 months of birth, most of them can return to mainstream society.

The early detection and intervention program for hearing in newborns and infants includes hearing screening, diagnosis, intervention, follow-up, rehabilitation training and effect evaluation. It is a systematic and socialized eugenics project that requires strict quality control.

Newborn hearing screening time

1. Initial screening process (primary screening): that is, hearing screening of newborns during their hospitalization 3-5 days after birth.

2. The second screening process (rescreening): Infants within 42 days of birth fail the initial screening; or the initial screening is "suspicious"; or even if the initial screening has "passed" but is at high risk of hearing loss, such as children in the intensive care unit, need to undergo hearing rescreening.

Newborn hearing screening targets

There are two main types of newborn hearing screening subjects: one is all normal newborns; the other is newborns with high risk factors for hearing impairment.

Risk factors for hearing impairment:

1. Those who have been in the neonatal intensive care unit for 48 hours or more;

2. Premature birth (less than 26 weeks), or birth weight less than 1500 grams;

3. Hyperbilirubinemia;

4. Those with symptoms or signs of syndromes related to sensorineural and/or conductive hearing loss;

5. Those with a family history of permanent sensorineural hearing loss in childhood;

6. Craniofacial deformities, including microtia, external auditory canal deformity, cleft palate, etc.;

7. Intrauterine infection of the pregnant mother, such as cytomegalovirus, herpes, toxoplasmosis, etc.

8. The mother has used ototoxic drugs during pregnancy;

9. History of hypoxia and asphyxia at birth, Apgar score 0-4 points/1min or 0-6 points/5min;

10. Mechanical ventilation for more than 5 days;

11. Bacterial meningitis.

We have heard that we perceive the beauty of the world through the sounds we hear with our ears, and we test the beauty of the world through what we see with our eyes. Both hearing and vision are indispensable, and we cannot lose such beauty. Therefore, we must take good care of our bodies. Only with a good body can we feel the world better.