Tinnitus? PLEASE help? Cause of the disease?
Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at
10:03 pm
anyone know the cause symptoms and ways diagnosis are made.
please help me with this soon!!!!
Filed under: Tinnitus Symptoms
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Hi Soccerfreak,
Most tinnitus is caused by a problem with the inner ear, which converts sounds to nerve signals, the auditory nerve, which carries these signals to the brain, and the parts of the brain involved in decoding those signals into what we sense as sounds.
Tinnitus is often linked to hearing loss. For this reason it’s more common in older people who have age-related hearing loss.
Exposure to loud noise at work may also cause tinnitus. If you work with pneumatic drills or in noisy factories, you may be more at risk of having tinnitus.
Other possible causes of tinnitus can come from your ear, auditory nerve (which carries signals from your inner ear to your brain), infections, side-effects of medicines you have taken and because of problems with your jaw or teeth. These include:
* Ménière’s disease, which results from an increased pressure in the inner ear and also causes deafness and vertigo
* otosclerosis, a condition in which the small bones of the middle ear become stiff and immobile
* ear infections and inflammation
* hard wax blocking your ear
* middle-ear infection (the type that’s often known as "glue ear" in children)
* acoustic neuroma, a benign (non-cancerous) tumour of the auditory nerve
* high doses of medicines including aspirin, quinine and some antibiotics, water tablets (diuretics) and chemotherapy drugs
* head injury or whiplash
* problems with the joint between your jaws (this is called the temporomandibular joint), which can also lead to pain in the head or face
If you have tinnitus, you are more likely to be depressed. It’s not clear whether this is because tinnitus makes depression more likely or if being depressed makes you more likely to have tinnitus.
The type of sound you hear with tinnitus does not necessarily show what the underlying cause might be, or whether the cause is serious or minor. In order to find out the cause of tinnitus, you will need to have some tests.
If you have the symptoms of tinnitus, your GP will refer you to a specialist doctor for some tests. This will usually be an ENT (ear, nose and throat) surgeon or an audiovestibular physician (a doctor who specialises in hearing and balance problems). He or she will take into account all of your symptoms and may perform blood tests and various tests of your hearing, balance and co-ordination.
If the doctor feels that he or she needs to investigate the inner parts of the ear in more detail, you may need to have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
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Best wishes,
Jon
http://www.medicinenet.com/tinnitus/article.htm