Talk:Sensorineural hearing loss

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I'm not a doctor. But from what I've read on pubmed, it is not true, that SSHL has to be treated with steroids. We don't know how many different forms of SSHL exist, what their main causes are and what really is effective. Shah et al 2004 Steroid-treating is common practice Ahmed et al 2004, to say that SSHL has to be treated like this does not seem to be based on seriously controlled studies. Wei et al 2006 SSHL is not regarded by some authors as an "emergency". Charrier et al 2005 The spontanous healing rate of SSHL without any treatment is very high Zadeh et al 2003, which might make statistics and controlling difficult as you need many patients to prove any effect. There is one study that claimed that even Magnesium had a better effect than steroids Nageris et al 2004. There are still a couple of studies that find a link between high dose steroid treatment Slattery et al 2005, Narozny et al 2004 Chen et al 2003 or early referral to treatment Rassin et al 2005 and recovery after SSHL.

Have a look at the page at the NIDCD to get a resume of this.

Indeed, there is no scientific evidence for the effectiveness of steroids against sudden sensorineural hearing loss: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003998.pub2 --84.134.235.171 05:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this information be mentioned in the article (tnat steroid use has been attempted and there is a lack of scientific evidence for its effectiveness), rather than having all mention of steroids deleted? —Pengo 06:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree. --Abgeknallter Problembaer 11:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)