tinnitus

[777john]

Iv just seen a piece in the Irish times dated 12th November 2020 about a nasal spray of the [love hormones oxytocin] which could banish ? tinnitus. It does say in 2017 researchers from the federal university of San Paulo Brazil tested the spray on 15 tinnitus sufferers over 10 weeks. The results published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology showed a significant decline in symptoms. Now in a new trial at New York university 30 patients will be given either oxytocin nasal spray or a placebo to use four time daily for six months. It says the results are expected by June next year which will be June this year 2021. Has any body ells seen this article and what are your thoughts.

[Happyrosie]

Thanks for signposting us to this, 777john. I hadn't heard of this but have now read up a little around the subject. I imagine this is the sort of study that NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) takes into account when making recommendations to GP's, so I expect it will wend it's way eventually down this route. I don't think the admins of this site read every post here, so you might want to tell them about this yourself just so you know that they are keeping an eye on it.

[777john in reply to Happyrosie]

Thanks for that Happyrosie i have just let them all know.

[rabbits65 in reply to 777john]

Hi John and Happyrosie,Any research at all is very

much appreciated in my

eyes .

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I haven’t heard of this but it sounds interesting!!! I have tried pretty much everything from homeopathy to acupuncture!!! Still searching !

[Amanda_Brighton]

There's a study here from 2017 in a similar vein. It seems to suggest there was a positive effect: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

And here's the 2020 trial mentioned in the Irish times (and Daily Mail etc). I can't find any updates to it, but there is an email. Perhaps worth a quick email? : ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-...

And I'll do some more digging too!

[TinnitusUKPat Partner]

I can't really add much to what Amanda has written above - the 2020 trial was scheduled to start in January last year and report in the summer. It's not entirely clear to what extent that small scale trial has been affected by the pandemic.

Oxytocin is in use within the NHS within maternity departments as an aid to help expectant mums during labour. In order to change the usage case for that medication, NICE would have to agree a change of status for the medication and that would arguably depend largely on the evidence presented by a large-scale clinical trial.

As that hasn't happened yet, we're left with newspapers picking up on early stage proof of concept medical research which may be years away from coming to fruition and reporting on them as though they are imminent solutions.