Hardcore kissing causes deafness
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Chinese girl lost her hearing through a passionate kiss with boyfriend.
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with just about everything causing cancer these days, one of life’s simple pleasures – kissing a loved one, could now be dangerous for your health.
The furore was created in the Chinese media when a young woman from Zhuhai, south China lost all hearing in her left ear when she damaged her ear drum through a passionate embrace with her boyfriend.
The doctor who attended the girl told the China Daily: “The kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown of the ear,” according to a report by the BBC.
The paper recommend that: “While kissing is normally very safe, doctors advise people to proceed with caution.”
Whilst extremely shocking and painful, the girl will thankfully recover her full hearing in approximately two months time.
How is it possible to burst the ear drum through a simple kiss? Doctors in the UK were baffled by the news and admitted they had never heard of an incident like it. The theory is that an imbalance of pressure caused by an extremely vigorous kiss could have caused the drum of the ear to burst.
If, during kissing, the boyfriend was sucking the woman’s mouth, such that the pressure in the Eustachian tube lowered dramatically, then the difference in atmospheric pressure could have caused enough build up of pressure to perforate the drum.
The now infamous “Kiss of Deaf” has got young people worried, but UK experts reassured kissers that the chance of causing damage to the ear drum was extremely unlikely. Andrew McCombe, a surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey said that to damage a normal ear, “you would need to be kissing like a Dyson hoover.”
Mr McCombe believes that the incident with the Chinese woman was a rare accident, probably caused by having weak ear drums and previous infection or injury. He said: “If you had a previous perforation of your ear drum, if you had a scar, that would burst more easily. You may only need five or six pounds (extra) pressure per square inch. A normal healthy eardrum is pretty tough.”
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