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  Sometimes medications that are known to be ototoxic (damaging to hearing) are prescribed to babies, usually to treat serious infections or birth complications. The most common otoxic medications used at this time include a family of antibiotics called aminoglycosides with names such as gentamycin, tobramycin, kanamycin. and streptomycin. Hearing loss resulting from the use of these antibiotics may also have a genetic component. They present more of a risk to hearing when they are used multiple times or in combination with other medications, such as diuretics. Although cancer in infants and young children is rare, there are some chemotherapy drugs that are used which are also ototoxic, especially when used to treat tumors that are in the skull. 

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