On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:55:06 -0500, clifto wrote:

Bob Masta wrote:
Just thought you'd like to know!

If only you could explain cochlear hydrops in a way that suggested a fix.


I'll ask around about progress on this. When I worked in the hearing
research lab, some folks were trying to come up with an animal model
so that they could study various treatments. At the time, they didn't
have any animals that developed hydrops spontaneously, so they
had to go in surgically to plug things up and prevent normal fluid
flow. I'm not sure it they came to any insights with this approach,
but it seemed a long shot to me. That was maybe 15 years ago,
so they could have come a long way. I still attend weekly seminars
in my old department, so I'll ask around about this.

You probably already know this, but the conventional advice is
to cut salt intake. That basically means you prepare all your own
food from scratch, in light of the amount of salt that restaurants
and processed food contains. Tough job, but easy enough to
try out.




Bob Masta
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