Thursday, June 10, 2010

Medical treatment for tinnitus and a new hope


* What tinnitus?

Tinnitus is a condition where a person "Hear" a sound ringing in the ear for any being present in the environment real sound.People with tinnitus usually complain about noise called in his ears that drowns all other noises, often making very incómoda.Este call type is often compared with ear transient call but tinnitus is a chronic and persistent call that can also take the form of ROAR, singing or whistling in some cases.

* How common is the tinnitus?

It is estimated by the American Association of the tinnitus that over 52 million people in the United States have tinnitus and for more than 15 million, the symptoms are severe enough to justify getting medical treatment. And an estimated 3 million people have a very serious case of tinnitus that inhibits them from day to day activities such as attending school or his employment.

* How can I get tinnitus?

Older people are at greater risk for tinnitus than others, but there have been cases of children as young as 14 to obtain it.Most tinnitus may occur due to the elderly related or nerve damage hearing loss in the ear, which is more common among people of edad.Jóvenes can get tinnitus exposing their ears to sudden and strong, noise that can damage hearing. Tinnitus may occur due to the accumulation of excessive ear, the use of certain medications, wax trauma, sinus infections at the bottom of the neck or head or medical conditions such as high blood pressure, thyroid and diabetes.

* Traditional medical treatment for the tinnitus

Tinnitus used to be thought of as a purely psychological condition, but not anymore.Once the tinnitus recognized that a medical condition, medicine modern has come through with treatment drugs, stress and anxiety of prescription and some extremes of surgery even.

Typical use of medication to cure and treat tinnitus have been anti depressive drugs such as Xanax, antihistamines reducing allergies and heart medications.There have also been some progress in homeopathic remedies that some are intended to help those who do not like traditional, homeopathic medication a.Para is an alternative.

* New advance for tinnitus treatment: Neuromonics

A new treatment option for tinnitus has only been introduced by the medical community that could give new hope to people who have tried other medicines and remedies and continue to suffer.This new treatment is called Neuromonics or masking, as well as sound are you llama.El Neuromonics concept is simple.Low sounds are transmitted in the ear by means of a headset or handset, which is similar to the static, with the intention of distracting the paciente.Se timeout noise this new sound will be less annoying and more comforting to the person and eventually drown most troublesome of acúfenos.Aunque sounds is not for everyone, with continued use and a bit of getting used, scientists believe that the brain is "mask" was finally with the annoying sounds of tinnitus and simply mark it out of the perception.

Neuromonics treatment is done through a portable electronic devices call Oasis tm .Once patients have passed through a set of hearing tests, masking sounds are customized for that patient and loaded into the oasis.Los patients who have participated in studies have reported that you can sleep better and also carry out day to day tasks better than they have been able to do.

Once a patient has been managed treatment of Neuromonics, for a time, masking sound is cut for short periods of time to allow the tinnitus to be oído.Esto sound becomes so the brain can get exposed to the two sounds alternatively and gradually get used to and tuned with the more relaxing sound of objective enmascaramiento.El is to train the brain ignore annoying sounds called altogether and get used to a more relaxing sound masking.

While the conversion could be correctly, the results could be short term as the brain could get accustomed to the sounds of tinnitus, once they are disabled the enmascaramiento.Por sounds therefore, doctors recommend used Neuromonics once or twice a week for 2-3 hours at a time to maintain the effectiveness of the treatment.

No comments: