Can sensorineural hearing loss be cured? How to treat it?

Sensorineural hearing loss is a type of hearing loss, which generally refers to the lesions of the auditory nerves in our brain, leading to hearing loss or even hearing loss. So how can sensorineural hearing loss be treated and can it be cured?

The principles of treatment for sensorineural hearing loss are: first, to restore or partially restore lost hearing; second, to preserve and utilize the remaining hearing as much as possible.

1. Drug treatment:

Because there are many causes of sensorineural hearing loss and the mechanisms and pathological changes are different, there is currently no simple, effective drug or treatment that is suitable for any situation. At present, while excluding or treating the causative diseases, it is advisable to use vasodilators, drugs that reduce blood viscosity, B vitamins, energy preparations, and, if necessary, steroid hormones for a certain period of time for treatment. Vasodilators such as papaverine, heparin, 654-2, hydroergoline, dibazole, ligustrazine, and pueraria flavonoids can be taken orally or injected. Treatment includes vitamin B1, B6, B12, adenosine triphosphate, coenzyme A, cytochrome C, low molecular weight dextran, sodium bicarbonate, hyperbaric oxygen, etc. If drug treatment is ineffective, hearing aids can be used.

2. Hearing aids:

It is a sound amplification device that helps the deaf hear sounds. It is mainly composed of a miniature transmitter, an amplifier, headphones, ear molds, a power supply, etc. There are many types of hearing aids. For individual users, there are air conduction and bone conduction, box type and ear-level type (including glasses type, behind-the-ear type, and in-the-ear type), monaural and binaural hearing aids. The correct selection can only be made after a detailed examination by an otolaryngologist or audiologist. Generally speaking, it can be used by people with an average speech frequency hearing loss of 35-85dB. If the degree of loss in both ears is roughly the same, binaural hearing aids can be used or a monaural hearing aid can be worn alternately on both ears. If the hearing loss in both ears is quite different but does not exceed 50dB, a hearing aid should be given to the ear with poorer hearing. If the hearing loss in one ear exceeds 50dB, a hearing aid should be given to the ear with better hearing. In addition, the characteristics of hearing impairment should also be considered. For example, hearing aids should be used for ears with higher speech recognition rates, flatter hearing curves, larger bone-air conduction gaps, or wider dynamic hearing ranges. Conductive hearing loss can be treated with either air or bone conduction hearing aids, while patients with stenosis or inflammation of the external auditory canal can only use bone conduction hearing aids. People with sensorineural hearing loss mostly use the air conduction type. People with reverberation need to wear hearing aids with automatic gain control or automatic reverberation control.