Tinnitus, otitis, otosclerosis, dizziness and more — evidence-based, audiology- and ENT-focused reviews of common hearing and balance disorders.
Select the symptoms you experience; we’ll list conditions in which they can occur together. This is not a diagnostic tool, only a guide — for a definitive assessment, consult a physician and an audiologist.
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Sudden middle-ear inflammation; very common in young children.
Hearing loss and progressive kidney (renal) failure.
Hearing but not understanding; a neural synchrony disorder.
Congenital failure of the pinna or ear canal to form.
Rapidly progressive, asymmetric/bilateral sensorineural loss.
Short, severe, position-triggered dizziness.
Bilateral balance failure; visual shift with movement (oscillopsia).
Difficulty understanding in noise despite normal hearing.
Skin accumulation and bone erosion in the middle ear.
Permanent eardrum perforation and chronic discharge; cholesteatoma risk.
Blockage by cerumen (earwax) in the ear canal.
Progressive hearing loss triggered by pressure or trauma.
Middle-ear ventilation problems; obstructive or patulous form.
Benign bony growths, especially with cold-water exposure.
Inflammation of the ear canal; includes ‘swimmer’s ear’ and necrotising forms.
Ear-canal blockages, especially in children.
Benign vascular tumours causing pulsatile tinnitus.
Effects of meningitis, mumps, CMV and other TORCH infections.
Types of dizziness, causes and emergency red flags.
Disruption of ossicular integrity from trauma or necrosis.
Non-infected fluid in the middle ear; common in children.
Stapes-related, slowly progressive conductive hearing loss.
Damage of certain drugs to the cochlea and balance system.
Hearing loss, enlarged vestibular aqueduct and thyroid goitre.
Inner-ear fluid leak; fluctuating hearing and dizziness.
Chronic dizziness lasting more than 3 months after a trigger.
Age-related loss starting at high frequencies.
Ringing heard without an external source; causes and coping.
Craniofacial anomalies and outer/middle-ear malformations.
Calcification of the eardrum and ossicles from past infections.
Hearing loss and progressive vision loss (retinitis pigmentosa).
Migraine-related recurrent dizziness attacks.
Viral inflammation of the balance nerve; sudden continuous vertigo.
Benign 8th-nerve tumour causing asymmetric hearing loss.
Pigmentation anomalies (white forelock, different eye colours) and hearing loss.
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