"Looking back at China's work, it pays more attention to rehabilitation than prevention. In terms of treatment, false advertisements are rampant, doctors are wandering, misleading doctors seriously, and deaf people are damaged. If these situations are not corrected in time, it will not only be difficult to achieve the WHO goal of reducing the burden of preventable hearing loss by 20 10, but also seriously affect China's sustainable development in this field. "
—— Professor Bu Xingkuan, a well-known otolaryngologist in China.
Lift the veil of pseudoscience
At present, the medical technology of otology has made great progress, and scientists have made great breakthroughs in cochlear cell regeneration, transplantation, human ear stem cell research, auditory function reorganization and repair. However, restoring patients' listening and language processing ability is still in the basic medical and clinical research.
Deafness can be divided into conductive, sensorineural and mixed deafness. Conductive deafness can be improved to some extent by drug treatment or surgery, while sensorineural deafness can not be repaired by the current medical level because it hurts the inner ear or auditory nerve cells.
It should be noted that there are many so-called drugs that can treat deafness on the market at present. Some are so-called secret recipes handed down from family, some promote "patented technology", and some are all under the banner of "international brands", which are full of tricks and even guarantee efficiency 100%. From a scientific point of view, these so-called panaceas are actually unreliable.
It is easy to believe that these drug treatments will not only cause huge economic losses, but also have the most serious impact on patients, which will delay early intervention and effective rehabilitation of hearing. No matter what kind of deafness, if you blindly turn to medication or listen to charlatans, you will miss the best time to wear hearing AIDS and the opportunity for rehabilitation training, which will cause adverse effects and lead to lifelong regret.
Commonly used advocacy therapy:
Comprehensive treatment of deafness with traditional Chinese medicine plus acupuncture, qigong and acupoint injection
Clinical application of biological gene-auditory nerve regeneration and repair therapy
Triple therapy of gene and/or regeneration-gene system repair therapy
Misleading keywords:
Repair ear nerve, regenerate auditory gene, activate nerve, repair paralysis, promote qi and blood circulation, and dredge ear hole.
Where is the question:
1. The standard of curative effect has no practical significance.
The effect after treatment is often evaluated by electrical response test (ERA), and the threshold has changed by several decibels (different instruments take the sound pressure level of four SPL or hearing level HL as the standard). If 95dB is measured before treatment and 90dB is measured after treatment, it is considered as "progress" hastily; After several courses of treatment, when the threshold reaches 85dB, it is considered as "effective". In fact, this change of 10dB has no important value.
2. Exaggerate the effect of gene therapy
At present, the international "gene therapy" is still in its infancy, but there are many advertisements in China to treat deafness under the banner of "gene". The advertisement didn't say how to cure it. What method is used to restore the gene of deafness and tinnitus? How to find out the "deafness and deafness gene" of deaf patients? Who uses the gene with sound hearing and no tinnitus to bring sound transmission mechanism and sound perception mechanism? What method was used to repair it? There is no evidence!
Listen to the handbook of hearing rehabilitation for middle-aged and elderly people in the future