Painkiller hearing loss with constant use?

Painkiller: Hearing loss with regular use? According to a study by scientists from Harvard and Vanderbilt Universities and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital, hearing loss can be influenced by the long-term and regular use of pain medications.

According to a study by scientists from Harvard and Vanderbilt Universities and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital, hearing loss can be influenced by the long-term and regular use of pain medications.The researchers around Dr. Sharon G. Curhan of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, examined data from 26,000 men who had been interviewed every two years for their health for 18 years. The American scientists published their results in the journal „American Journal of Medicine“.

According to them are acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), paracetamol and ibuprofen, all of which are the so-called „nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs“(NSAIDs), the most widely used painkillers. NSAIDs are agents without cortisone, which have an analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effect and may possibly inhibit blood clotting.
According to the study, men who regularly took aspirin and were below the age of 60 were 33 percent more likely to be at risk of hearing loss than occasional injectors. For men below the age of fifty, who regularly „nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs“ The risk of hearing loss was 61 percent higher. The overlying age group of 50- to 60-year-olds had a risk of 32 percent. The 60-year-olds only have a risk of 16 percent. People under the age of fifty who regularly take acetaminophen had a risk of 99 percent over men who only occasionally took the remedy. Here, the risk of the next age group of 50- to 60-year-old men was 38 percent. And here too, the risk of a possible hearing loss was the lowest for men over the age of 60 with 16 percent.

It appears from the results of the American scientists, that taken regularly and in high doses, some drugs of NSAIDs may affect the hearing of affected pain patients.
Especially among men under 50 years is thus always a regular review of the need to take. Manual methods of pain therapy, such as the fascial distraction model (FDM), could be a meaningful and gentle alternative for those affected. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 01.03.2010)