Tick infestation causes hearing loss
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•Woman's sudden hearing loss turned out to be a tick lodged in her ear canal
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A 21-year-old Nepal woman's sudden ear pain, hearing loss and dizziness turned out to have a tick infestation in her inner ear.
The patient's right ear canal was congested and inflamed, with progressive hearing loss, vertigo, nausea and tinnitus.
Doctors at the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan , Nepal , found a dead tick lodged in the skin of the woman's inner ear, they said in a case report published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports .
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