Can hearing aids treat tinnitus?
At present, the effective treatment of tinnitus is a kind of treatment, but the treatment time is long and the price is expensive, so it is greatly limited in clinical practice. Therefore, many audiologists began to study the effect of wearing hearing aids on tinnitus. Tests have shown that most hearing loss patients with tinnitus use hearing aids for a period of time, tinnitus symptoms will be alleviated or eliminated. Therefore, for patients with tinnitus with hearing loss, it is recommended to use a hearing aid for treatment.
Tinnitus patients often feel aggravation of tinnitus in a quiet situation because peripheral environmental noise masks tinnitus. In patients with tinnitus with hearing loss, the masking effect of environmental noise on tinnitus is significantly weakened, so the feeling of tinnitus is more prominent. After wearing the hearing aid, the background noise is appropriately amplified, and the hearing aid can play a role in the treatment when the surrounding environment is relatively quiet. It takes a long time to practice treatment, usually in4 ~ 6More than an hour. Therefore, it is best to use the hearing aid every day.4 ~ 6More than an hour.
Many patients have bilateral tinnitus and bilateral tinnitus are at the same frequency. Because the peripheral auditory pathway has a strict frequency distribution, it is difficult to imagine bilateral bilateral auditory pathways at the same site at the same time, so bilateral tinnitus of the same frequency Almost all of them are central tinnitus. For patients with bilateral tinnitus, if only one side of the hearing aid is worn, it usually only has inhibitory effect on the ipsilateral tinnitus, and most of the contralateral tinnitus is ineffective. This phenomenon is consistent with the auditory deprivation phenomenon. This feature reminds us that although there is a hearing crossover phenomenon, bilateral hearing loss is accompanied by bilateral tinnitus, and it is best to wear hearing aids on both sides, which not only overcomes the phenomenon of auditory deprivation, but also effectively suppresses tinnitus.
Therefore, for those patients with hearing loss associated with tinnitus, we recommend using a hearing aid for help.
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