Sudden deafness affects one in 10,000 people, usually between ages 30 and 60.In most cases, doctors never determine what caused the hearing loss.For years the standard treatment was a prescription for an oral steroid like prednisone, which reduces inflammation. But some patients, including those...
but any hearing loss or visual changes usually do not improve. The mainstay of treatment is a minimum of 1 mg/kg oral prednisone (up to 80mg daily) with slow taper over two weeks, preceded by three days of intravenous methylprednisolone in severe cases. A total of 87...