Mumps is an acute generalized viral infection that occurs primarily in school- age children and adolescents. Permanent unilateral deafness occurs once per 20000 cases of mumps. A bilateral hearing loss case due to mumps is described in this article.

Twenty -eight years old male patient, who had been in close contact with his son with mumps for fifteen days, was referred to us with bilateral parotid tenderness. He complained hearing problem two days after his admission. We evaluated his sense of hearing by audiogram. In left ear, air conduction level was 68 dB, bone conduction level was 48 dB. In right ear , air conduction level was 103 dB, bone conduction level was 70 dB. Prednisolone 60 mg/day, heparine 2500 IU/day, penthoxifylline 100 mg/day and symptomatic treatment were given for five days. In laboratorial examination mumps IgM positive, IgG negative were found. Hearing loss did not recover despite treatment. Hearing level was attempted to scale up by hearing-aid.

Due to the risk of sterility or deafness in adult mumps infection, immunization would be helpful for adults who are not immunized or infected by mumps.

Mumps Hearing loss Deafness