Aspirin may help prevent hearing loss

According to a Reuters report 27, a new study shows that patients taking gentamicin can reduce the risk of permanent hearing loss, and aspirin also can receive the same effect. Researchers said the discovery on those poorer widely used gentamicin and similar aminoglycoside antibiotics (aminoglycosides) of drugs is especially important for national significance, because these drugs at low prices, usually at the store counter, you can buy.

University of Michigan study report of the joint authors Jo Chen · Sara Terry (Jochen Schacht) in an interview with Reuters, said the annual world drug use by millions of people, each of ten people perhaps there will be a person because of medication and permanent loss of at least part of the hearing. He said: "if widely aspirin treatment at the same time to avoid many hearing loss as well as medication caused a lot of pain. In developing countries, if a person loses his hearing, no one will care about you. It means that you cannot find a job, no one will interact with you. ”

This study by the University of Michigan and China Xi'an joint fourth military medical University, the research results published in this week's New England Journal of medicine. Gentamicin as it will damage the hearing does not receive in the United States. Sara said, when they were told no drug companies willing to sponsor the aspirin treatment, because cannot benefit from this, he and his colleague Mr. Sha (Su-Hua Sha) looking at China. Sara said, the Chinese doctor on this enthusiasm, because they see problems exist, especially for the children in China. Testing has shown that in 89 day gentamycin and three grams of aspirin for treatment of patients in only 3% of people receiving treatment for five weeks after a hearing, but taking gentamicin and placebo in patients with 106 13% of people had the same problem. Aspirin does not reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics, but it can cause some patients have stomach problems. Three patients because stomach bleeding and had to stop taking it. But Mr. Shakespeare study team stated that on the whole more advantages than disadvantages. Aspirin can absorb antioxidant capacity can explain why it has such an effect, while other antioxidants also can receive the same effect, but in developing countries because aspirin cheap so practitioners more attractive.

Aminoglycoside antibiotics have been put on the market with 60 years of history. Who recommends them for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. In addition, gentamicin inhalants usually is cystic fibrosis patients taking the drug. This medicine will detect the ears to different frequencies within the sound of villi produce damaging effects, which can damage hearing. Sara said: "aspirin to prevent damage to hearing ideas section subject to animal testing, when we first thought of this point seems the easy begins. ”