Question

Mr. Ahmed is a 65- year old man who is suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy. He is also suffering from sensorineural hearing loss. He finds it difficult to distinguish between high pitch sounds such as the letters (s) and (th). He decides to meet a physician for a check-up. Answer the following questions in relation to his condition. Provide (two in-text citations) for any of your answers and (two references below your answers). a. Describe Diabetic Retinopathy in one or two sentences. (1 mark) b. List two symptoms of Diabetic Retinopathy. (1 mark) c. Which ear disorder do you think most likely Mr. Ahmed has? Name it and give two other symptoms of this disorder. d. List three causes that happen in the ear leading to the disorder mentioned in (question

Answer 1

Diabetic retinopathy is the damage of blood vessels of eye ball due diabetes. It lead into progressive loss of retina. The two main symptoms of diabetic retinopathy is given below.......

• Loss of vision power of eye.
• Fluctuating and blurred image formation

Mr. Ahmad is suffer from nerve deafness or sensorineural hearing loss. It mainly caused by loss of tiny hair cells of choclea. Inner ear is mainly suffer from sensorineural hearing loss. Other symptoms of nerve deafness are.....

• 90% patients having diminished hearing problem.
• 57% patients of nerve deafness having plugged feeling in ear while 49% having ringing feeling in ear.

Main causes of nerve deafness or sensorineural hearing loss are......

• Congenital defect of ear like congenital rubella syndrome, cytomegalo virus leads in to nerve deafness.
• Some genetic syndrome like Stickler syndrome, Waardenburg syndrome etc caused nerve deafness.
• Presbycusis is progressive hearing loss of ear due to age.