Hormone treatment may prevent hearing loss
A swedish study indicates that simple treatment with oestrogen stimulating drugs may be useful in combating hearing loss.
The researchers studied the impact of the female oestrogen hormone. They found that one of two receptors the female oestrogen sex hormone binds itself to offers good protection against hearing loss in both males and females. The study was based on experiments with mice.
”We found that the beta (oestrogen) receptor protects against hearing loss”, said Barbara Canlon, a professor at the department of physiology and pharmacology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The study indicated that treatment of hearing loss may be possible with a hormone treatment already on the market and currently used in the treatment of breast cancer, among other diseases.
Treatment with ER-beta binding drugs was found to protect the mice against hearing damage. The researchers concluded that the identification of an auditory-protective role for the ER-beta oestrogen receptor should make it possible to develop some form of hearing loss treatment for people. Much further research is needed before the possible development of such a new treatment.
Seen on http://www.hear-it.org/. Original study posted on www.cordis.europa.eu
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I have a 7 year old nephew who is partially deaf from both ears,
the doctors said that there is nothing can be done except the use
of a hearing aid., and if he was totally deaf then he could use an implant
Do you recomend the use of “oestrogen hormone treatment” to recover
some of his deafness
Thank you
Gus
Gus,
I don’t think this treatment is even available to the general public yet. There seems to be some promising results in stem cell research to reverse hearing loss caused by nerve damage, but that’s still some way off too, just how far off seems to be uncertain at the moment.
I think that hearing aids are probably the only real solution for your nephew in the short term.