A Cure

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rockdrummer said:
could be a reality. What about stem cell therapy or even transplants or cloning. All feasable "cures"
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Nanostructures used in utero to repair hair cell damage during development or protect at risk cells during medical treatment might prevent deafness.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Would you subject your son to intense chemotherapy and radiation so your son could be transplanted or be given stem cells, because, that's what would have to happen. You would have to basically knock out the person's existing immune system, and infuse the stem cells and HOPE they graft.
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That's not exactly how it works (some people are proceeding with stem cell therapy -- right now, without chemo or radiation) but no, I would definitely not undertake experimental treatment. It would have to be well-researched, FDA-apprved, etc. for me to pursue it. But that certainly hasn't stopped me from thinking ahead. Future technology, surgical methods and potential "cures" were a very important consideration for my family when we went ahead with a second CI.
 
I would assume the "cure to deafness" being "way out in the future" will be of NO value to anyone reading this thread-now-correct? Why get excited?

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hat's not exactly how it works (some people are proceeding with stem cell therapy -- right now, without chemo or radiation)
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And stem cells are still really up there. I think people expolarated a universal cure for hearing loss b/c someone noticed that it was listed as a condition that could be treated by stem cells. I think it started when someone undergoing stem cell treatment for MS noticed his hearing improved. Autoimmune hearing loss can be a SYMPTOM of MS...Stem cells treat autoimmune conditions. It does not mean it would treat hearing loss in general.
Quite frankley, I think we need to put a cure for hearing loss on the very back burner, and concentrate on cures for things like Alizerheimer's, profound and severe intellecutcal disabilty, mental illness , kidney and liver failure and all sorts of issues.
 
What is alldeaf.com being taken over by VampireFreaks-- Deaf Goths?Blind Zombies? Dr Strangelove's revenge- finally!

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drphil said:
What is alldeaf.com being taken over by VampireFreaks-- Deaf Goths?Blind Zombies? Dr Strangelove's revenge- finally!

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:lol:
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Funny guys! :laugh2:

Seriously, though. I do think it's time to lock it up.

We can wonder about cures all we want to, but, that's not reality. It's best not waste your time supposing or dreaming of something that's a long way off, if a cure every comes at all; especially when there's more important things going on in the immediate future.
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Yeah that post by RD was funny but I concur with you. Stem cells isn't going to be useful for me given the cause of my deafness. I was born deaf due to prenatal rubella.
 
deafdyke said:
And stem cells are still really up there. I think people expolarated a universal cure for hearing loss b/c someone noticed that it was listed as a condition that could be treated by stem cells. I think it started when someone undergoing stem cell treatment for MS noticed his hearing improved. Autoimmune hearing loss can be a SYMPTOM of MS...Stem cells treat autoimmune conditions. It does not mean it would treat hearing loss in general.
Quite frankley, I think we need to put a cure for hearing loss on the very back burner, and concentrate on cures for things like Alizerheimer's, profound and severe intellecutcal disabilty, mental illness , kidney and liver failure and all sorts of issues.
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I'm with you!
 
faire_jour said:
So, since we all agree that hearing aids and cochlear implants are NOT a cure for hearing loss, what would be?

Yes, nothing that exsists now is a cure, but theoretically, what would be defined as a cure in your eyes?

Does it just have to provide functionality as a hearing person? Perfect hearing? Take away the hearing loss? Restore whatever caused the loss? Or does it just have to provide hearing all the time? From birth?

What would qualify as a cure for hearing loss in your eyes?
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whoa. i'm way late in the game. to answer your question....

Cure means the person is 100% healed from disease/illness/etc. The person's affected biological function is returned to its natural state. so CI/HA can't be a cure since it's a technological tool to replace a defective biological function.

Like walking cane or wheelchair... just because a person with bum leg or paralyzed from below waist can move on his own doesn't mean he is cured.

CI/HA is not a cure. It's a cybernetic enhancement. So is pacemaker and prosthetic arm/leg. Many hearing parents view CI/HA as a cure and that is the primary cause of many problems that their deaf children will develop at later age.
 
I've always wondered... have there ever been a cure for anything? In the past or present?
 
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