What is tinnitus?
If the abnormal sound in the ear does not reduce or disappear, it is called tinnitus. The most common cause of it is hearing loss with age. Tinnitus can occur in all types of hearing loss.
According to the survey, 15% of the population suffer from some form of tinnitus. In other words, according to the world’s 7.5 billion population, about 1.125 billion people suffer from tinnitus.
Ear diseases have a great impact on the patient’s hearing. It is a common disease in daily life. The treatment of this disease is difficult and easy to occur repeatedly. Many friends suffer from tinnitus disease and do not pay serious attention to it, resulting in the deterioration of this disease. Experts say that we should pay attention to scientific methods when treating tinnitus to avoid entering the treatment misunderstanding.
Although so many people suffer from tinnitus, few people can understand the causes of tinnitus and pay attention to protection.
Myth 01: tinnitus is a disease
Transient tinnitus will not attract people’s attention.Many people think it will pass after a while.
However, long-term tinnitus will bring great trouble to people, because it will not only affect people’s daily life, work and study, but also make people anxious, depressed and even have the idea of suicide.
But it is not a disease, but a symptom of some diseases. Health problems such as destructive noise, nerve injury, cardiovascular disease and traumatic brain injury may lead to tinnitus.
It(and hearing loss) may also be caused by some drugs. At present, no specific medicine can “cure” tinnitus, but there are some treatment methods that can reduce the symptoms of tinnitus and make the life of tinnitus patients easier.
Myth 02: prolonged tinnitus can lead to deafness
Tinnitus and hearing loss often exist at the same time, but it does not mean that it can lead to deafness.
It is only a symptom. Tinnitus caused by various ear diseases will gradually aggravate deafness with the extension of the course of disease.
But other tinnitus caused by anemia, cervical, thyroid disease, cervical plaque, heart disease, etc. generally will not cause deafness.
Myth 03: cutting off the auditory nerve to cure tinnitus
The way to cure toothache is to cut off the dental nerve, so it is rumored that cutting off the auditory nerve can cure it. Whether this method is feasible or not, the nerve structure of teeth and ears is still different. Cutting off the nerve will not make tinnitus disappear, but also increase the risk of deafness.
Myth 04: taking medicine can cure tinnitus
Indeed, there are some treatments that can reduce the symptoms of tinnitus and make it easier for us to accept it. For example, great success has been achieved in acoustic therapy, which slows down the perception of tinnitus by playing masking noise similar to the tone of it.
Another example is tinnitus acclimatization therapy, meditation, psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, changing diet and strengthening physical exercise, which can also control tinnitus to a certain extent.
But in fact, the mechanism of tinnitus is still unclear, and there is still no specific drug and treatment approved by FDA.
So don’t listen to folk prescriptions and think that there is really a “panacea” to cure tinnitus!What we can do now is to protect our hearing.
Tinnitus harm is not on the one hand, and once the disease develops to an advanced stage, it may lead to various complications. Therefore, understanding the relevant symptoms and treatment methods of tinnitus disease is very important for early recovery.Tinnitus should not be ignored. After tinnitus, we must see a doctor early in order to better manage the condition and control tinnitus.
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