Radical scavengers for Ménière's disease

Keep those crooked vultures away from my delicate ears & insides.

 

I'll take 'What is a radical & scavenging bird for 500', Alex.

 

This has been said and is being said of every new thing that they believe may work for MM since the low salt diet and diuretics in the 30's or 40's. It's okay that proposals keep popping up, but as long as there aren't more in-depth studies it's better not be hopeful because to date what we have is that all the things that "could work against Meniere" ended up not showing their effectiveness.

Let's cross our fingers because they continue investigating and more data appears demonstrating its effectiveness.

 

from the study - "Material and methods: Rebamipide (300 mg/day), vitamin C (600 mg/day) and/or glutathione (300 mg/day) were given orally for at least 8 weeks to 25 patients with poorly controlled MD."

600 mg/day of Vitamin C is practically nothing, I take a few thousand every day, several thousand if it is a bad day. I don't know what Rebamipide is, is it a prescription drug?

 

I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but this is from 2003. I know that it can take ~20 years for a treatment to hit the public, but wouldn’t there have been updates if this was still being worked on?

 

I agree. My point is that if this treatment helped anyone, there would have been some sort of update in the past seventeen years.

 

The older I become, the more I feel like the neuroatypical individual sitting at the crowed neurotypical table. In this case specifically, perhaps I'm reading your comment too literally, if not;

How do you reconcile a) "It helped for some", which is to say it helped more than one, with b) "but as we know, every MD case is different"?

If every MD case were different, no one treatment would treat more than one person. Hence no one study would expose the symptomatic relief of more than one individual.

To put it another way, if every MD case were different there would be no logical reason to try any treatment that results in the symptomatic relief of any one case—which subsequently renders any appeal to any study as null & void, other than appeals to studies which demonstrate no systematic relief from any participant.

It is almost certainly the case that there are multiple causes of MD, however it is also most certainly not true that every MD case is different, & therefor there are as many causes, & as many treatments as there are people who suffer from it.

 

Cool. So you would agree with my fifth & final paragraph, my fifth & final paragraph being: