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Vitamin E Could Restore Sudden Hearing Loss

The purpose of the experiment is to provide a medical treatment to sudden hearing loss which affects 4 ,000 Americans each year . Because little is known about the causes of the disease , two thirds of patients with the disease recover without any treatment in days . And for those who do not recover , there is no available consistent curative treatment The cause of this sudden hearing loss can be identified in only 10-15 percent of cases which includes viral , bacterial , neurological metabolic and immunologic in origin . The remaining 85-90 percent is of no

known cause or idiopathic

The objective of the experiment is to gather evidence regarding the restorative and the protective role of antioxidants in the inner ear and to determine the most effective antioxidant available and its optimal dose for supplemental use Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa Israel gathered 66 patients with sudden hearing loss . Subjects were randomly divided into two groups . Both the control group and the experimental group received bed rest and steroids . The experimental group received an addition of 800 mg of vitamin E per day

The dependent variable is the effect of vitamin E on the experimental group . The independent variable is the dosage of vitamin E which is 800 mg per day

The results in the experiment showed that the success of treatment relates better to the experimental group , with a 75 percent recovery rate or more at the time of discharge . In addition , the severity of hearing loss was...

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