Patient's question:
Baby is 8 days old. The hospital didn't do a hearing screening at birth. The past two days, there was a funeral nearby, and the baby didn't react to the firecrackers. Is his hearing normal?Doctor's answer:
Your situation, you can first rule out congenital neural deafness in the child, and it is recommended that you take the child to the gynecology department of the hospital for a newborn hearing screening, which is also known as auditory brainstem response (ABR). This can be done in conjunction with a thorough examination. If it does not pass, it is recommended to go back to the otolaryngology department for a follow-up examination, which needs to carefully check the growth and development of the child's ear canal and perform some treatment to stabilize the condition.