Can hearing aids also treat tinnitus

Tinnitus is an auditory sensation caused by non external acoustic stimulation, which is a common symptom in otology. More than 80% of tinnitus cases are related to hearing change. Other diseases that can lead to tinnitus include head and neck trauma, systemic metabolic and endocrine system diseases, and a few cases of tinnitus may not have a clear cause. Like pain, ear purring is a clinical symptom, not a single disease. The specific mechanism of tinnitus is still unclear. Tinnitus symptoms related to clinical diseases can often disappear with the cure of related diseases, which generally does not constitute a long-term problem for patients. Tinnitus that needs special treatment in clinic is often chronic tinnitus that has no definite cause or is difficult to cure with primary cause.

In general, tinnitus that has existed for more than half a year is called chronic tinnitus. Chronic tinnitus is common in sensorineural deafness and some chronic diseases that are not cured. At present, the effective treatment of tinnitus should be habitual therapy, but the treatment time is long and the price is expensive, so it is limited in clinical. So many audiologists began to study the effect of hearing aids on tinnitus. It has been proved that tinnitus symptoms will be relieved or eliminated in most hearing loss patients with tinnitus after using hearing aids for a period of time. Therefore, for tinnitus patients with hearing loss, it is recommended to use hearing aids for treatment. Tinnitus patients often feel the tinnitus aggravation under quiet condition, because the surrounding noise has masking effect on tinnitus. In tinnitus patients with hearing loss, the masking effect of environmental noise on tinnitus is obviously weakened, so tinnitus is more prominent.

After wearing the hearing aid, amplify the background noise properly. When the surrounding environment is quiet, the hearing aid can play the role of acclimatization treatment.

Acclimatization treatment needs enough time every day, generally more than 4-6 hours. Therefore, it is better to use hearing aids for more than 4-6 hours a day. Many patients have bilateral tinnitus, and both tinnitus are of the same frequency. Due to the strict frequency distribution of peripheral auditory pathway, it is difficult to imagine that both peripheral auditory pathways have pathological changes at the same place at the same time, so almost all tinnitus of the same frequency on both sides are central tinnitus. But for the patients with bilateral tinnitus, if they only wear one side hearing aid, they usually only suppress the tinnitus on the same side, but not on the other side, which is consistent with the phenomenon of hearing deprivation.

This feature suggests that although there is hearing crossover, bilateral hearing loss is accompanied by bilateral tinnitus. It is better to wear hearing aids on both sides, which can not only overcome the phenomenon of hearing deprivation, but also effectively inhibit tinnitus.

Therefore, for those patients with hearing loss accompanied by tinnitus, we recommend using hearing aids for help.

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