A pharmaceutical or health food includes rapamycin as an active ingredient, the pharmaceutical or health food being applied for prevention, improvement, and treatment of ototoxic hearing loss caused by an aminoglycoside-based antibiotic, sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and noise induced hearing loss. The pharmaceutical or health food is also applied to a pharmaceutical composite preparation of an aminoglycoside-based antibiotic and rapamycin, the pharmaceutical composite preparation reducing a side effect of the aminoglycoside-based antibiotic.