Aspirin was not only a powerful tool to overcome the headaches. Joint expert team from China and the United States (U.S.) found that the drug is also useful to prevent hearing loss caused by amino-glycosides antibiotics types. This type of antibiotics is commonly used for about 60 years to treat acute infections, tuberculosis, and numerous other diseases. Unfortunately, its side effects are loss of hearing ability.
These findings are written in the New England Journal of Medicine and involving 195 Chinese patients who received between 80 to 160 milligrams of gentamicin (a type of amino-glycoside) intravenously twice daily. Provision made during the five to seven days. Among these patients, 89 of whom also received aspirin treatment. 106 while the other received a placebo drug effect (as if to heal), besides receiving antibiotic treatment.
It turned out that the level of hearing loss in patients taking aspirin for 3 percent. While, those who were not given aspirin was 13 per cent suffer from disorders.
The scientist wants to publish these findings to the medical community around the world so that people can take reasonable precautions to minimize risk in patients since aspirin is easily available and affordable.
Previously, the scientist found that treatment was successful in mice, but they strongly pleased to discover that this way was also successful in humans. However, applying research from animals to humans is not easy.