What should I do with my ears? What about tinnitus?

Ear squeak is tinnitus, tinnitus is a world medical problem, there is no effective means to completely cure tinnitus, but as long as the tinnitus is accompanied by hearing loss, you can try to use hearing aids to suppress masking tinnitus.

Tinnitus is an auditory feeling caused by non-external acoustic stimulation and is a common symptom of the ear.80More than % of tinnitus cases are related to hearing changes. Other diseases that can cause tinnitus include head and neck trauma, systemic metabolism, and endocrine system diseases. A small number of cases of deafness may have no clear cause. Like pain, deafness is a clinical symptom, not a separate disease.

The specific mechanism of tinnitus is still not very clear. The symptoms of tinnitus associated with clinical diseases often disappear with the healing of the disease, and generally do not constitute a problem that has long plagued the patient. The tinnitus that needs special treatment in clinical practice is often chronic tinnitus with no clear cause or primary disease, and tinnitus that usually exists for more than half a year to one year is called chronic tinnitus. Chronic tinnitus is common in sensorineural hearing loss, and some Chronic disease that has not healed. Chronic, severe tinnitus is often associated with some non-auditory system problems, although these non-hearing problems are not always directly related to tinnitus or the primary disease that causes deafness, but if they are not effectively controlled, they can often become An important factor affecting the quality of life of patients.

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. In fact, the hearing aid does not treat tinnitus, but masks the tinnitus. When the hearing aid amplifies the external sound, it covers the sound of tinnitus, but these sounds will not cause people’s plans, and they are more comfortable and relaxed than before. Although hearing aids do not cure tinnitus, it is also a relief for tinnitus patients. Therefore, for patients with tinnitus with hearing loss, it is recommended to use a hearing aid for treatment. 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.