Meningitis Hearing Loss

How to Avoid Being in the 40%

The article discussing Meningitis hearing loss:Protection by adjunctive antioxidant therapy can be found at the PubMed.gov site.

Meningitis- associated hearing loss is the most frequent permanent complication of pneumococcal meningitis. It affects up to 40% of those surviving the infection.

What Can You Do?

Traditional therapy is dexamethasone. The results are not effective according to literature.

The study looked at the effects of antioxidants used as additional therapy for the prevention of meningitis-associated deafness. The tests were on rats and in particular, NAC or N-acetyl-L-cysteine was given as one of the antioxidants.

The results were promising. The report said, “ Adjuvant antioxidant therapy is highly otoprotective in meningitis and therefore is a promising future treatment option.”

Would you like to learn more on the otoprotective (referring to the hearing ear protective) power of glutathione.

Just go to PubMed.gov and type in hearing loss and NAC or hearing protection and glutathione or any combination. It will be rather revealing research.

To make the studies easier to understand, just read the first few sentences and the conclusion found at the end of the summary.

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