How to treat acute deafness?

Acute deafness is also known as sudden deafness in clinical practice. This disease can cause great damage to people's hearing. Generally speaking, many people do not pay much attention to tinnitus. Acute deafness can also have symptoms of tinnitus, so patients should pay attention to it. If such symptoms exist for a long time, they must pay attention to examination and treatment. So how should acute deafness be treated?

1. Glucocorticoids

It has anti-inflammatory, antiviral and immunosuppressive effects, can relieve vascular endothelial edema, and increase blood supply to the inner ear. It is currently an important treatment for sudden deafness.

2. Thrombolytic and anticoagulant drugs

The plasma fibrinogen level of patients with sudden deafness is significantly higher than that of normal people, and the red blood cell aggregation and plasma viscosity are also significantly increased, suggesting that blood viscosity plays an important role in the onset of sudden deafness.

3. Neurotrophic drugs

Commonly used neurotrophic drugs include adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and vitamins. ATP is a coenzyme and the main source of energy for the body. Because of its ability to improve the body's metabolism, it has become one of the main drugs for the treatment of sudden deafness.

4. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Due to capillary cell edema, reduced cochlear blood flow leads to cochlear hypoxia. Some patients with sudden deafness have reduced perilymph oxygen pressure. Therefore, the ultimate goal of treatment is to restore the oxygen pressure in the cochlea. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can reduce inner ear edema and ischemic and hypoxic damage, improve inner ear circulation, and significantly increase the oxygen partial pressure of blood and tissue cells, the blood volume in plasma, and the diffusion radius in tissues, accelerate the repair of inner ear hair cells and vestibular nerve fibers, and reduce platelet aggregation and blood viscosity. Therefore, it can be used to treat sudden deafness. The therapeutic effect is related to the duration of illness. With the accumulation of treatment experience, the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen combined with drugs and other treatment methods is better than that of hyperbaric oxygen therapy alone. Through clinical observation, it is found that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is more effective when combined with certain psychological care measures. Personalized psychological counseling is adopted for patients with sudden deafness, which can reduce the psychological pressure of patients and enable them to cooperate well with the treatment, so that the treatment can proceed smoothly and achieve better clinical effect.