Ear Conditions
Tinnitus
The buzzing/humming/screaming in the ear is tinnitus. Sometimes it arises from acoustic trauma – artillery, firecrackers, loud music through earphones or slaps on the ear. Sometimes infections seem to precede tinnitus, presumably viral. Other cases are from unknown causes.
Conventional treatment advice is:
- Ignore it.
- If you cannot ignore it, mask with white noise – a fan or air conditioner.
- If that is not enough, special white noise generators can be fitted into the ear canal – looking like hearing aids.
- Finally, when tinnitus is truly intolerable (and people sometimes actually suicide when it becomes a constant scream) then the Eighth Cranial Nerve can be totally ablated. That stops tinnitus at the price of making the patient totally stone deaf. With this procedure, hearing aids do not help restore hearing.
At this time, about half of people treated using the Ear Treatment outlined below obtain relief after a half dozen treatments. The treatment and condition need further work. Unfortunately, it is difficult to measure outcomes and that slows research.
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