Clinical And Experimental Studies On Children's Nerve Deafness With Acupuncture

Children's nerve deafness, including drug poisoning deafness, infectious deafness and in juring nerve deafness, is one transmission obstruct of nerve impulse because of the in juring of hair cells, auditory pathway or kinds neuron during child. Its main feature is the decent of hearing or lull loss of hearing. There are fine factors to lead to this disorder. Heredity is the first factor, for example, patient's internal ear is not developed well because of heredity and feeling deafness because of family dependents. Secondly, pregnant is suffered from urbella or other virus such as toxemia and nephritis, or uses some ototox- tcity medicines such as streptoimycin. Thirdly, infant is wounded when he was born, and suffered from nuclear jaundice or postpartum choke. Fourthly, infant was treated by antibiotic medicines such as streptomycin. Fifthly, patient is suffered from infectious disease, injuring, noise and so on. Patient?s cochlea hair cells, auditory nerve fiber ending, spiral ganglion and even hearing nerve and hearing center are always affected simultaneously by this disease because they are related closely. This syndrome is described as deafness, linnitus, in- Sensitive to ear and unhearing etc. The symptoms and pathogenesis as well as treatment have been recorded. Clinical study (--) Efficacy of acupuncture therapy in treatment of 54 cases of children nerve deafness Total effective rate of 54 cases (96 ears) treated by acupuncture (87. 5% is remarkably higher than that of 32 cases (53 ears) treated by drugs (65. 1%) (p ~O. 05) . The efficacy of acupuncture therapy is related with the degree of deafness and the factors causing this disorder. The efficacy of light and middle degree patients is significantly higher than that of heavy degree patients. The efficacy of patients caused by drugs and infection is higher than that of con- genital patients. un Three needle regimen is a special therapy by selecting a group of special points which summarized many year experiments of Prof. Jin Rui. Application of scalp therapy is especially emphasized in this regimen which main points distribute on scalp and ear. This therapy mainly regulates the Qi of many channels and promotes some Qi points. (二) Influence on the nerve hearing evoked potential of brain trunk in children? s nerve deafness with acupuncture therapy There exist remarkably differences among ABR hearing threshold, ABR incubation period and wave period through comparing 35 cases (59 ears) treated by acupuncture therapy and 20 cases (34 ears) treated by drugs. The patient's ABR threshold with acupuncture therapy is obviously decreased. This effect indicates that the efficacy with acupuncture therapy on hearing system is sig- nificantly superior to that with drugs, that incubation period of 1, III and V waves with acupuncture therapy is remarkably shorter than that with drugs (p < 0. 05). In addition, author also found that there are no obviously differences in I ?III arl(l 1 ?V wave spans between the treatments by acupuncture therapy and by drugs (p > 0. 05), but the wave span of III ?V treated by acupuncture therapy is clearly shorter than that by drugs (p <0. 05). All above, to a certain extent, show that acupuncture therapy can improve the function of hearing sys- tem, especially improve the function of cochlea. Experiment in animals Influence (in the hearing evoked potential of brain trunk in gentamicin cavy with ac poisoning deafness...