Checking for deaffness

Saurabh Saxena a pet owner comes with his 2 month dalmation and asks for routine checkup.i suspect deafness and is confirmed by owner as not being able to hear anythg.i tell him its a genetic disorder and dog will remain like this now he is asking if there is any machine/procedure to get his hearing right.i thought it is best to put the question to our forum.

16 July at 05:40 · Comment · · Flag

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    Rajshankar Tony Sarma

    Basal Auditory Evoked Response. We do it routinely; but it's of academic interest, because as you rightly say it's genetic and will not be changed.
    
    Test is used by breeders before selling puppies. They seem to take offence at advice of "have you considered not breeding from defective stock..."? ;o)
    

    16 July at 21:48 · ·
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    Rajshankar Tony Sarma Mind you, if we stopped all breeding from defective stock, my caseload would drop off. And we'd have no Royal Family.

    16 July at 21:49 · · 1 person ·
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    Swarupmay Majumdar Dr Raj, can u plz tell me more about the Basal Auditory Evoked Response? is it the simple one of making sudden sound or something else requirting instruments

    18 July at 16:55 · ·
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    Rajshankar Tony Sarma

    Sorry, I always write Basal for some reason - it should be Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response. It involves basically an eeg-type setup and watching what the waves of brain activity do in response to an auditory signal.
    
    As said, it's a bit academic - while breeders love confirmation of which dogs they can sell, if you have a deaf dog it's usually fairly easy to tell!
    
    http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/baerexpl.htm

    19 July at 11:20 · ·