Are you hearing some sort of swishing sound or ringing in your ears yet you have no idea if you're imagining it because there seems to be no one around you producing it? This isn't really anything serious but it is what people call tinnitus. Tinnitus, not a classified as a disease, is a symptom for something even more serious as an underlying illness or condition. Now, when you have this symptom, no one but you can hear the ringing noise.
Exposure to very loud, unpleasant noises is one of the common causes of tinnitus. These noises may damage the hearing partially or completely as well. If we want to take care of our sense of hearing, it's best to not expose ourselves to such level of noise. Other than this, there are others that can trigger tinnitus.
Some underlying diseases that tinnitus could be a symptom of are that of brain or acoustic tumour and brain aneurysm. When you exhibit the symptom of tinnitus, it would be good to check with your doctor. You might have developed serious illnesses like those mentioned earlier.
Tinnitus cannot be treated by any means. There are no known treatments for this condition. The patient who suffers from this will have to live with it. However there are some medical experts as the ear specialists or the otolaryngologists that recommend niacin as treatment to tinnitus. It has not been scientifically proven however, that niacin does indeed reduce or treat the problem of tinnitus. It is important for us to take note of this.
Some drugs like gabapentin---brands Neurontin and Gabarone---when given in high doses were said to reduce the level of unease in some patients with tinnitus. They do not decrease the noise volume but scientific research says they work better than anything else like placebo.
In Brazil, a study on acamprosate, brand Campral that is normally used for the treatment of alcoholism, showed that patients with tinnitus were relieved 87% of this symptom. Today, studies on this continue in the United States.
While we cannot make tinnitus go away by specific treatments, we can relieve ourselves of this condition when it becomes too annoying. It does tend to disturb a lot of us who exhibit this symptom.
One known remedy that can relieve us of tinnitus is the reduction of caffeine intake. You could also relieve yourself of the annoying ringing in the ear with the decrease in salt intake in your diet. Living a healthy lifestyle such as doing away with your smoking habits may also relieve you of these symptoms.
Some studies on patients with tinnitus have also exhibited lower levels of zinc. Doctors now suggest to increase zinc levels through supplements with the said component or mineral to relieve one of symptoms of tinnitus.
The best way to treating tinnitus isn't by the remedies or the treatments. It is by prevention. The same is true to every other serious illness we may come into contact with. It would help to read more on how ear tinnitus can prevented. This way, we'd still have a healthy sense of hearing that's devoid of ear tinnitus.
