Tinnitus

Tinnitus's disease overview

What is

The tinnitus is an unexpected cry of origin from the hearing system or neighboring organs and often cannot be heard by others. Most tinnitus are single cry, but there are cases of buzzing in the form of complex sounds such as the sound of the waves, the cricket sound, the bells shouting or the steam flowing through the narrow place. Distinguishing tinnitus from sounds due to hallucinations such as voice in ears, music, often the result of poisoning, psychological disorders or with the status of hearing the voice, the breath of the patient due to deafness The transmission, the widening of tinnitus is not a disease, which is a symptom of a hidden condition, such as age -related hearing loss, ear injury or circulatory system disorders.

Tinnitus is a common condition, tinnitus affecting 1 of 5 people. Although uncomfortable, tinnitus is often not a sign of something serious. Although it may become worse by age, for many people, tinnitus can improve when treated. Tinnitus may take a short day if the cause is found and solve that cause. Many people with tinnitus takes place for many months for many years of affecting life called tinnitus.

Tinnitus can be completely cured if the cause of tinnitus is found, some cases do not find the cause of the main treatment is to reduce the tinnitus symptoms that improve the quality of life. P>

Causes of Tinnitus's disease

Causes of usual tinnitus:

Exposure to loud noise: The loud noises are sources of hearing loss related to popular noise. Music listening devices with loud sound, for a long time. Despite exposure to short -term and long -term noise with loud sound can cause permanent damage.

Earwax obstruction: Earwax protects your ear canal by trapping dirt and slowing the growth of bacteria. When too many earwax accumulates, it becomes too difficult to wash away naturally, causing hearing loss or stimulating the eardrum, which can lead to tinnitus.

Change ear bone: hard bones in the middle ear can affect your hearing and ear tinnitus. This situation, caused by abnormal bone development, tends to run in families.

Some causes of tinnitus less common, including:

Meniere disease: Tinnitus can be an early sign of Meniere disease,

TMJ Disorders: Problems with temporal joints, joints on the sides of the head in front of the ear, where the lower jaw bone meets your skull, can cause tinnitus.

head injury or neck injury: head or neck injury may affect the inner ear, hearing nerve or brain function related to hearing.

Sound nerve tumor: This non -cancer tumor (benign) develops on the nerves running from the brain to your inner ear and controls the balance and hearing . Also known as vestibular Schwannoma, this condition often causes tinnitus in one ear.

Eustachian tube dysfunction: The inner ear connecting the middle ear and your upper throat is still expanded all the time, for some reason to cause pipe dysfunction. Tinnitus

Vascular disorders related to tinnitus: atherosclerosis, head and neck tumor, high blood pressure, blood vessel stenosis for the head of the neck, deformities of the vessels Blood, ...

Some drugs that can cause or worsen tinnitus, the higher the dose of these drugs, the worse the tinnitus: some antibiotic groups, cancer drugs Letter, diuretics, quinine, some antidepressants, aspirin used in high doses, ..

Symptoms of Tinnitus's disease

The tinnitus is related to the feeling of sound when there is no external sound. Tinnitus symptoms may include noise in your ears. Trong một số trường hợp, âm thanh có thể lớn đến mức có thể cản trở khả năng tập trung hoặc nghe âm thanh bên ngoài . Tinnitus can be present at all times, or it can come and go. There are two types of tinnitus: subjective tinnitus and objective tinnitus

Tinnitus subjective tinnitus is tinnitus you can hear. This is the most popular tinnitus. It can be caused by ear problems in your outer, middle or inside ear. Nó cũng có thể được gây ra bởi các vấn đề với dây thần kinh thính giác ảnh hưởng đến tín hiệu thần kinh là âm thanh.

Tinnitorious tinnitus is tinnitus at your doctor can hear when examined. This rare tinnitus may be due to blood vessel problems, middle ear bone or muscle spasms.

People at risk for Tinnitus's disease

These factors may increase the risk:

Exposure to loud noise: people working in a noisy environment such as factory workers and construction, musicians and soldiers, etc.

Old age: Old age, the number of nerve fibers active in the ear will decrease, which can cause hearing problems that are often associated with tinnitus, usually over 60 years old

Smoking: Smokers are at higher risk of tinnitus.

Cardiovascular problems such as high blood pressure, arterial stenosis may increase the risk of tinnitus.

Prevention of Tinnitus's disease

In many cases, tinnitus is the result of the disease that cannot be prevented.

Some preventive measures can help prevent some types of tinnitus.

Using hearing protection: Exposure to large sounds can damage nerves in the ear, causing hearing loss and tinnitus. People with high risks like musicians, working in an industry with high noise with high frequency, especially guns should use hearing protection equipment to protect the ears.

Reduce volume: Use music devices with small sounds because listening to music at a very large volume through headphones can cause hearing loss and tinnitus.

Change lifestyle: Exercise regularly, eat properly to keep blood vessels healthy can help prevent tinnitus related to vascular disorders.

Diagnostic measures for Tinnitus's disease

Tinnitus diagnosis is based on many factors, carefully exploiting functional symptoms:

Tinnitus, age, tinnitus, tinnitus, family history and accompanying vestibular symptoms (poor hearing, full of ears, dizziness).

Tinnitus properties: Location (in the beginning, one side, two sides), height, single or complex sound, buzzing type (regularly, according to the pulse, click sound , murmur), intensity, level of discomfort, environmental effects, continuous or interrupting.

Symptoms attached: ear melting, head injury, noise exposure, using poison with ears.

Clinical examination: Clinical examination - comprehensive nerve combined with ear function evaluation

Diagnostic image: Cur cape cutting, magnetic resonance imaging, brain angiography to find some causes of tinnitus.

Tinnitus's disease treatments

Depending on the condition that has different treatments, treatment includes:

Medical treatment

Many medical treatments have been proposed to treat tinnitus, can be feces into two main types: drugs that cut off the pathogenesis to create buzzing and drugs to help patients reduce Uncomfortable for buzzing.

Performing medications on ear and central nervous systems, plain muscle relaxants, vitamins, etc.

Antihistamine and edema drugs in cases of suspected tinnitus due to tap dysfunction.

Sedative, Magnesi Sulfat, Barbiturate, Meprobamate are used to reduce inhibitors on the grid of the central nervous system.

Para-aminobenzoic acid derivatives (such as process) and amino acrylamide group (such as Lidocaine, Lignocaine) can also be used in intravenous tract to reduce the sensitivity of tissues. neurotransmitter.

Three -round antidepressants, such as Amitriptyline and Norriptyline, have been used with some success. However, these drugs are often used only for serious tinnitus, as they can cause troublesome side effects, including dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation and heart problems. P>

Avoid possible stimulants. Reducing exposure to things that can make your tinnitus worse. Popular examples include loud noise, caffeine and nicotine.

Earwax removal, stop the drug if the drug can cause tinnitus, ...

Surgical treatment

Surgery eliminates the causes of tinnitus, which are the blocks in the corner of the cerebellum bridge, the new birth tumor of the temporal lobe or the tinnitus accompanied by the transmission deaf. P>

Surgery to reduce intra -container ear pressure, use heat to destroy the external pipes, use salt to be placed in a round window, and the lymphadenopathy surgery to treat tinnitus cases Do ménière.

Surgery for atrial surgery and surgical surgery to treat tinnitus tinnitus cutting the vestibular nerve is only applied to treat tinnitus in deaf patients who receive completely ears of the same ear side.

Other treatments

Create a sound environment like a white noise machine. These devices, creating simulation environmental sounds such as rain or waves, is often an effective treatment for tinnitus, which can help cover the inner noise at night. >

Hearing aids. This can be especially useful if you have hearing problems as well as tinnitus.

Hypnotic acupuncture

Neurological treatment using stimulation from the skull (TMS) is a painless, non -invasive therapy that has succeeded in reducing tinnitus symptoms for ear tinnitus symptoms. Some people. Currently, TMS is more commonly used in Europe and in some tests in the US people still have to determine which patient can benefit from such treatments.

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