Key points
  1. Corticosteroids have a significant therapeutic effect on vestibular neuritis (VN) recovery, especially in long-term follow-up.
  2. Corticosteroid treatment was beneficial in evaluating VN recovery by complete caloric recovery, as well as improvement of canal paresis.
  3. A negative effect of steroids on VN recovery was found in this meta-analysis according to post-medication dizziness handicap inventory score.
  4. When comparing the outcomes of steroid treatment and non-steroid treatment, the steroid treatment had a statistically significant but small therapeutic effect on VN.
  5. Although the latest Cochrane review concluded that there is insufficient evidence to support the use of corticosteroids in VN, but this study may present somewhat positive effect of corticosteroids in VN.