Tinnitus Treatment
How to Stop Ringing in the Ears
Effective Tinnitus Treatments
Jan 13th
Tinnitus is a kind of irritating problems in ears. It is ringing, swashing, or some weird kind of noises seems to be coming from the ear. However, it is not a severe problem, but it can turn out to be very annoying. This is caused due to infection in the middle ear bones or on your ear drums. The tinnitus treatments depend on its causing condition.
Tinnitus treatments have ranged from simple home remedies to radical ear surgery. The available treatments are:
Stimulation therapies: This involves Vibration therapy, Electrical nerve stimulation and Repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation. These therapies are quite new, but their effectiveness has shown positive results.
Conventional treatments: These treatments usually involve Medications, Cochlear implants and Surgeries. Most of these conventional methods are tried and tested and have been used since years in treating tinnitus. Patients have reported improvements in the elimination of their tinnitus symptoms.
Vitamins and Herbal therapies: There are many herbs and mineral and vitamins which are helpful in curing tinnitus such as Chinese herbs like Chinese yams, Chinese foxglove, Goldenseal, intake of mineral and vitamins like magnesium, B1, B12, B6, and potassium etc.
Alternate therapies: Apart from above mentioned tinnitus treatments, other alternate therapies are Hypnosis, Holistic healers, Counselling, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Yoga, Reflexology, Ayurveda medications and Guided visualization and imagery.
Moreover, a change in the diet may also help the person to alleviate from tinnitus problems such as by avoiding high sodium food, red wine, caffeine products and high fat sugary foods.
How To Treat Tinnitus
Nov 9th
Have you ever wondered why in some instances, individuals experienced a loud ringing in their ears? The unwanted buzzing, hissing, crackling and ringing noises associated with tinnitus have often been described as truly annoying and disconcerting, especially if the person is unable to make out where the noise originated.
Tinnitus is a perception of sound often described as a ringing, buzzing or humming in the ears or head that affect millions of people. Tinnitus is not a disease, but a symptom resulting from a range of underlying causes. The ringing in the ears, according to ear, nose and throat (ENT) experts, is found to be much worse at night, and more so during extremely stressful periods. Usually accompanied by hearing loss, tinnitus has many causes including noise exposure, physical injury such as head trauma, ear diseases, muscle spasms, circulatory changes, side effects from medication, nerve pathway irritation and central auditory system changes.
Tinnitus (pronounced “TIN-a-tus” or “Tin-EYE-tus”) from the Latin word tinnītus meaning “ringing“) is the perception of sound within the human ear in the absence of corresponding external sound.
Tinnitus can arise in any of the following areas: the outer ear, the middle ear, the inner ear, or by abnormalities in the brain. Some tinnitus or head noise is normal. If one goes into a sound proof booth and normal outside noise is diminished, one becomes aware of these normal sounds. We are usually not aware of these normal body sounds, because outside noise masks them. Anything, such as wax or a foreign body in the external ear, that blocks these background sounds will cause us to be more aware of our own head sounds. Fluid, infection, or disease of the middle ear bones or ear drum (tympanic membrane) can also cause tinnitus.
After a careful evaluation, your doctor may find an identifiable cause and be able to treat or make recommendations to treat the tinnitus.
Once you have had a thorough evaluation, an essential part of treatment is your own understanding of the tinnitus (what has caused it, and your options for treatment). More >
How Is Tinnitus Diagnosed?
Oct 22nd
Tinnitus is evaluated by your medical history, physical examination, and a series of special laboratory tests can help determine precisely where the tinnitus is originating. It should be seen by a physician expert in ear disease, usually an otologist or a neurotologist.
There should be an examination of the ears with an otoscope. Wax should be removed, and the doctor should note whether the ear drum is intact, inflamed, scarred, or whether it is moving.
The eyes should be examined for papilloedema (swelling of a portion of the back of the eye called the “optic disk”) as increased intracerebral pressure can cause tinnitus. Because papilloedema is so rare, and tinnitus is so common, it is very unusual to find this dangerous condition.
Inspection of the eardrum may sometimes demonstrate subtle movements due to contraction of the tensor tympani. Tensor tympani myoclonus causes a thumping sound.
The tensor tympani syndrome is common. It sometimes results in visible contractions of the ear drum, and sometimes even produces sounds audible to the doctor. Patients usually indicate that it makes a “thumping” noise — like a tympani drum !
An impedance bridge (tympanometer) can document rhythmic changes in ear drum compliance. More >
Common Tinnitus Causes
Oct 7th
The causes of tinnitus are divided in two categories. One is objective tinnitus. It can arise from muscle spasms that cause clicks or crackling around the middle ear. Some people experience a sound that beats in time with the pulse (pulsatile tinnitus or vascular tinnitus).Pulsatile tinnitus is usually objective in nature, resulting from altered blood flow or increased blood turbulence near the ear, but it can also arise as a subjective phenomenon from an increased awareness of blood flow in the ear. Rarely, pulsatile tinnitus may be a symptom of potentially life-threatening conditions such as carotid artery aneurysm or carotid artery dissection. Pulsatile tinnitus may also indicate vasculitis, or more specifically, giant cell arteritis.
The second is subjective tinnitus and can have many possible causes, but most commonly results from otologic disorders – the same conditions that cause hearing loss. It is also the damage to the microscopic endings of the hearing nerve in the inner ear. Advancing age is generally accompanied by a certain amount of hearing nerve impairment, and consequently tinnitus. Today, loud noise exposure is a very common cause of tinnitus, and it often damages hearing as well. Unfortunately, many people are unconcerned about the harmful effects of excessively loud noise, firearms, and high intensity music.
But tinnitus, along with sudden onset hearing loss, may have no obvious external cause. More >
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