Advice for father of child with congenital severe sensorineural hearing loss?

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Phil:

Has anyone replied to your inquiry about the boy with hearing loss? I

don't recall further posts on this subject. Your suggestion that

responders contact the father directly may be partly responsible.

 

As I understand it, the case involves a 2-yr-old with neuro/structural

hearing loss and otherwise good health. How effective are herbal

remedies likely to be in a case like this?

 

--Laurie Burton

 

> Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:36:11 -0000 In , " Phil

> Rogers " wrote:

>

> Dear Colleagues,

>

> Please see the mail, below, from Rahul N. Sanghavi

> . Rahul lives in India. His son has

> been diagnosed with congenital severe sensorineural hearing loss

>

> What advice would you give his father? If you can help, please

> email, or call the boy's father, with a copy of your advice to the

> List.

>

> Many thanks,

> Phil

>

>

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>

> Rahul N. Sanghavi , the boy's father, wrote:

>

> My son, Veer, cannot hear with either his ears since birth. An

> acupuncturist informed us that it is an imbalance of Yin and Yang

> and that the positive energies in Veer's kidneys are zero.

>

> Veer, born January 25, 2001, is an active 22 months old child with

> a cheerful disposition.

>

> Had no infection in the ear since birth. Not a single health problem

> nor any disease. Hearing loss is not hereditary in Veer's case as

> there is no such history on either his parents' sides.

>

> His mother had no complications whatsoever neither a fever nor

> cold/flu during pregnancy and child-birth also normal.

>

> We (Veer's parents) realized he could not hear when his teachers

> at the nursery school informed that he does not respond when his

> name is called out.

>

> Veer turns his head at loud noise like door bangs, wind chimes,

> loud whistle and gets startled when any object falls with a noise.

>

> Due to hearing loss he has not developed any speech like a child

> of his age should.

>

> He is currently using an hearing aid and also attends regular

> speech therapy sessions, which we feel is not showing much

> difference. His hearing is at 110 dB as per the latest BERA test.

>

> Allopathic doctors in India conclude that his problem is severe

> sensorineural hearing loss. They have advised to go in for a

> Cochlear Implantation, which we would like to use as a last option

> if nothing else works.

>