Comprehensive understanding of tinnitus
What is tinnitus?
What is the cause of tinnitus?
Why is there such a sound in my ears?
What should we do with tinnitus?
What if there is such a sound in your ears all the time?
What kind of treatment can I have?
What can I do to stop tinnitus from happening or to make it less serious?
What research can give us a better understanding of tinnitus?
1. what is tinnitus?
Tinnitus is often described as having a ring in the ear, but it also sounds like a roar, a tick, a hissing, or a buzz. The sound may be light or loud, it may be high frequency or low frequency. You may hear this sound in either one or both ears. In the past year, about 10 percent of American adults have experienced tinnitus for at least five minutes. This is about 25million Americans.
2. what is the cause of tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a symptom of hearing system problems, including ears, auditory nerve connecting brain, part of brain processing hearing, sometimes a piece of earwax blocks ear canal will cause tinnitus. Tinnitus can also be a sign of problems with the health system, like:
Noise induced hearing loss
Infection of middle ear or sinuses
Heart or vascular disease
vertigo
brain tumor
Cervical spondylosis
Hormone mutation in women
Thyroid system abnormality
Tinnitus is sometimes a sign of hearing loss in the elderly. It may also be caused by side effects of the drug. At the time you started or stopped taking drugs, more than 200 drugs known to have caused tinnitus.
If people working in noisy environment, such as factory or construction workers, road operators, even musicians, if they are in noise environment for a long time, sound can be transmitted to the brain through the ears, which can stimulate the auditory cells, and also lead to tinnitus. This is the so-called noise induced hearing loss.
If soldiers are injured by shock waves in the explosion environment, skull can reduce the damage of sound on brain tissue, but the symptoms of tinnitus will be intensified. In fact, tinnitus is a common disability among the veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pulse tinnitus is a rare symptom that sounds like a beat in the ear, like your heartbeat. Doctors can hear the sound by pressing the stethoscope on his neck or putting a small microphone in the ear canal. This tinnitus is usually caused by blood flow in the head or neck. Pulse tinnitus may also be caused by brain tumor or abnormal brain structure.
Even with these conditions and reasons, many people can not find obvious reasons for tinnitus. Most of the time, tinnitus is not a sign of a serious health problem. But if it is always loud or can not be eliminated, it can lead to fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory decline, inattention and other problems.
Why do I have such a sound in my ears?
Although the tinnitus is made from the brain cell network, what our ears hear is the sound of this meaning. Think in another way, tinnitus, although it starts in the ear, it stays in the brain.
Scientists have yet to agree on what is happening in the brain that leads to tinnitus hallucinations. Some people think tinnitus is similar to chronic pain, just as some wounds or broken bones have healed and the pain will continue.
Tinnitus may be the result of brain nerve circuits trying to adapt to loss of sound sensitive sensory hair cells. This explains why some people are sensitive to tinnitus.
Tinnitus may also be due to the loss of balance of the neural circuit, the activity of the auditory cortex in the inner ear is damaged or changed signals, which is processed by the brain. It may also be the result of abnormal interaction between neural circuits. The neural circuit is involved in listening and specialized in the processing of sound, and it also communicates with other parts of the brain, such as the marginal region, which mediates emotions and emotions.
4. what should we do with tinnitus?
The first thing is to go to your community health care doctor and ask him to check the ear canal to see if there is cerumen blocking the ear canal. Your doctor will ask you about your current health, medical status, and medications you take to find out if there are basic conditions that can cause tinnitus.
If your community doctor cannot find any medical cause for tinnitus, you may need to go to the otorhinolaryngology (commonly known as ear, nose, laryngologist or otolaryngology) to find a professional doctor. The otolaryngology will examine your head, neck and ears and perform an audiometric test to determine if you have hearing loss and accompanied by tinnitus. You may also be measured by experts at the same time and evaluated your tinnitus.
What if there is such a sound in your ears all the time?
Some people find that their tinnitus won't disappear or get worse, in some cases it can become more serious, and you find it hard to hear, focus, or even sleep. Your doctor will work with you to find ways to reduce tinnitus noise and reduce its impact on your life.
6. what kind of treatment can I have?
·Hearing aids are often used in people with hearing loss and tinnitus. Use carefully adjusted hearing aids to control other sounds, making the sound you need easier to hear. The better your listening, the less you focus on tinnitus.
·Coaching can help you learn how to adapt to your tinnitus in your life. Most consulting programs have popular science content to help you understand what happens in your brain and cause tinnitus. Some consulting programs will also help you change your mind and respond to tinnitus. You may learn ways to make your tinnitus noise so obscure that you can help you rest during the day or fall asleep at night.
·It can wear sound generator equipment suitable for ear, and make a pleasant sound to cover up the tinnitus. Some people want to completely mask tinnitus with a complete sound, but the most appropriate sound is a little louder than the tinnitus. This masking sound can be a soft "hissing" sound, random tone or music.
·Acoustic nerve stimulation is a relatively new technique for people with high or persistent tinnitus. It uses palm size devices and headphones to provide broadband sound signals. This treatment can stimulate the changes of neural circuits in the brain layer, and gradually inhibit the production of tinnitus. The device has been proved by a large number of volunteers to be able to reduce or eliminate tinnitus in the study.
·Cochlear implants are sometimes used in people with severe hearing loss and tinnitus. Cochlear implant sends electronic signals around the damaged part of the inner ear, which directly stimulates the auditory nerve. The device uses external sounds to stimulate changes in the neural circuits and helps mask tinnitus.
·Other drugs can be found on pharmacies or on the Internet to treat tinnitus, but these preparations have not been proved to be effective in clinical trials.
7. what can I do to prevent tinnitus from happening or to make it less serious?
The most common cause of tinnitus is the hearing loss caused by noise and damage to the sensory hair cells in the ear. What can you do to limit your exposure to noise - keeping away from noise sources, lowering volume, wearing earplugs or earmuffs will help prevent tinnitus or make it worse.
8. what research can make us have a better understanding of tinnitus?
In many places, if there is any error, it may cause tinnitus. If scientists can understand the area in the brain where tinnitus begins and why it continues, they can mediate treatment in those areas of the system to stop tinnitus in these tracks.
What is the cause of tinnitus?
Why is there such a sound in my ears?
What should we do with tinnitus?
What if there is such a sound in your ears all the time?
What kind of treatment can I have?
What can I do to stop tinnitus from happening or to make it less serious?
What research can give us a better understanding of tinnitus?
1. what is tinnitus?
Tinnitus is often described as having a ring in the ear, but it also sounds like a roar, a tick, a hissing, or a buzz. The sound may be light or loud, it may be high frequency or low frequency. You may hear this sound in either one or both ears. In the past year, about 10 percent of American adults have experienced tinnitus for at least five minutes. This is about 25million Americans.
2. what is the cause of tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a symptom of hearing system problems, including ears, auditory nerve connecting brain, part of brain processing hearing, sometimes a piece of earwax blocks ear canal will cause tinnitus. Tinnitus can also be a sign of problems with the health system, like:
Noise induced hearing loss
Infection of middle ear or sinuses
Heart or vascular disease
vertigo
brain tumor
Cervical spondylosis
Hormone mutation in women
Thyroid system abnormality
Tinnitus is sometimes a sign of hearing loss in the elderly. It may also be caused by side effects of the drug. At the time you started or stopped taking drugs, more than 200 drugs known to have caused tinnitus.
If people working in noisy environment, such as factory or construction workers, road operators, even musicians, if they are in noise environment for a long time, sound can be transmitted to the brain through the ears, which can stimulate the auditory cells, and also lead to tinnitus. This is the so-called noise induced hearing loss.
If soldiers are injured by shock waves in the explosion environment, skull can reduce the damage of sound on brain tissue, but the symptoms of tinnitus will be intensified. In fact, tinnitus is a common disability among the veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pulse tinnitus is a rare symptom that sounds like a beat in the ear, like your heartbeat. Doctors can hear the sound by pressing the stethoscope on his neck or putting a small microphone in the ear canal. This tinnitus is usually caused by blood flow in the head or neck. Pulse tinnitus may also be caused by brain tumor or abnormal brain structure.
Even with these conditions and reasons, many people can not find obvious reasons for tinnitus. Most of the time, tinnitus is not a sign of a serious health problem. But if it is always loud or can not be eliminated, it can lead to fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory decline, inattention and other problems.
Why do I have such a sound in my ears?
Although the tinnitus is made from the brain cell network, what our ears hear is the sound of this meaning. Think in another way, tinnitus, although it starts in the ear, it stays in the brain.
Scientists have yet to agree on what is happening in the brain that leads to tinnitus hallucinations. Some people think tinnitus is similar to chronic pain, just as some wounds or broken bones have healed and the pain will continue.
Tinnitus may be the result of brain nerve circuits trying to adapt to loss of sound sensitive sensory hair cells. This explains why some people are sensitive to tinnitus.
Tinnitus may also be due to the loss of balance of the neural circuit, the activity of the auditory cortex in the inner ear is damaged or changed signals, which is processed by the brain. It may also be the result of abnormal interaction between neural circuits. The neural circuit is involved in listening and specialized in the processing of sound, and it also communicates with other parts of the brain, such as the marginal region, which mediates emotions and emotions.
4. what should we do with tinnitus?
The first thing is to go to your community health care doctor and ask him to check the ear canal to see if there is cerumen blocking the ear canal. Your doctor will ask you about your current health, medical status, and medications you take to find out if there are basic conditions that can cause tinnitus.
If your community doctor cannot find any medical cause for tinnitus, you may need to go to the otorhinolaryngology (commonly known as ear, nose, laryngologist or otolaryngology) to find a professional doctor. The otolaryngology will examine your head, neck and ears and perform an audiometric test to determine if you have hearing loss and accompanied by tinnitus. You may also be measured by experts at the same time and evaluated your tinnitus.
What if there is such a sound in your ears all the time?
Some people find that their tinnitus won't disappear or get worse, in some cases it can become more serious, and you find it hard to hear, focus, or even sleep. Your doctor will work with you to find ways to reduce tinnitus noise and reduce its impact on your life.
6. what kind of treatment can I have?
·Hearing aids are often used in people with hearing loss and tinnitus. Use carefully adjusted hearing aids to control other sounds, making the sound you need easier to hear. The better your listening, the less you focus on tinnitus.
·Coaching can help you learn how to adapt to your tinnitus in your life. Most consulting programs have popular science content to help you understand what happens in your brain and cause tinnitus. Some consulting programs will also help you change your mind and respond to tinnitus. You may learn ways to make your tinnitus noise so obscure that you can help you rest during the day or fall asleep at night.
·It can wear sound generator equipment suitable for ear, and make a pleasant sound to cover up the tinnitus. Some people want to completely mask tinnitus with a complete sound, but the most appropriate sound is a little louder than the tinnitus. This masking sound can be a soft "hissing" sound, random tone or music.
·Acoustic nerve stimulation is a relatively new technique for people with high or persistent tinnitus. It uses palm size devices and headphones to provide broadband sound signals. This treatment can stimulate the changes of neural circuits in the brain layer, and gradually inhibit the production of tinnitus. The device has been proved by a large number of volunteers to be able to reduce or eliminate tinnitus in the study.
·Cochlear implants are sometimes used in people with severe hearing loss and tinnitus. Cochlear implant sends electronic signals around the damaged part of the inner ear, which directly stimulates the auditory nerve. The device uses external sounds to stimulate changes in the neural circuits and helps mask tinnitus.
·Other drugs can be found on pharmacies or on the Internet to treat tinnitus, but these preparations have not been proved to be effective in clinical trials.
7. what can I do to prevent tinnitus from happening or to make it less serious?
The most common cause of tinnitus is the hearing loss caused by noise and damage to the sensory hair cells in the ear. What can you do to limit your exposure to noise - keeping away from noise sources, lowering volume, wearing earplugs or earmuffs will help prevent tinnitus or make it worse.
8. what research can make us have a better understanding of tinnitus?
In many places, if there is any error, it may cause tinnitus. If scientists can understand the area in the brain where tinnitus begins and why it continues, they can mediate treatment in those areas of the system to stop tinnitus in these tracks.