Rare disease causes woman to stop hearing male voices

A woman identified only by Chen from Xiamen City, 715 km from Hong Kong, China, began to feel a symptom beyond that: she could no longer hear the men. Since it came with a severe headache, she thought that getting enough rest would return to normal, but that's not what happened.

Mrs. Chen went to a hospital where an otolaryngologist detected an inverted tilt hearing loss, a rare condition affecting 1 in 13, 000 hearing loss patients. In the case of the Chinese, she began to hear only higher frequencies, precisely the female ones - an unexpected behavior for patients with hearing loss.

The Doctor. Lin Xiaoqing, who attended the case at Qianpu Hospital, explains that this disease may even be genetic, but is more likely to appear because of stressful situations. Mrs. Chen explained that he was working late in a stressful job, keeping a few hours of sleep for body and mind recovery.

As the treatment was sought early in the first symptoms, the recovery of Mme. Chen should be complete. She should see to it that other stressful situations don't get her illness back - although a lot of people would like to hit some men's mute key, right?