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Diving with Hearing Loss

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With whom can I check whether or not I can learn to dive? Are there any tests needed to know that?

The advised me against swimming (or learning to swim, to be specific) as I often get ear infections, or to block my ear if I don’t follow his advice and get into the water.
(I still get ear infections in any case even when I keep my ears away from water so I don’t follow his advice :DDD)

Did you get the vaccine against pneumococcus? It is not a guarantee, but it may be helpful if you have frequent bacterial otitis media. PCV is more recommended, especially PCV - better is this which covers more types of bacteria:

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Types of Pneumococcal Vaccines

Information on how well pneumococcal vaccines work by vaccine type and bacteria serogroup.

I don’t know if you had beed vaccinated by Hib/flu vaccine.

@Bimodal_user said:

Did you get the vaccine against pneumococcus?

@Zeeza said:

No, I didn’t. How helpful is it?

The effectiveness in adults in preventing recurrent otitis media is less well-evidenced because children are the main group studied. However, if it is practically harmless compared to the above disease, it is worth considering.

I am user and strongly consider PPV-21 vaccine for myself.

@Bimodal_user said:

if you had beed vaccinated by Hib/flu vaccine.

@Zeeza said:

I’ve never considered having a flu vaccine. Is it worth it?

Regarding otitis media (if it is the ear infection you mentioned), it depends on the usual cause of your illness—viral or bacterial.
However, there is always a general health benefit, particularly before the season, a planned pregnancy, or in older people…

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