It’s a trend that the number of tinnitus patients is increasing year by year because people's mental pressure is high, and the environment and noise pollution are serious. Tinnitus usually also causes irritability, anxiety or depression, which can seriously affect work and life.
What are the dangers of tinnitus to people? Let's see how "terrible" is tinnitus?
There are five main hazards of tinnitus to people:
1. Affect hearing: According to conservative statistics from domestic institutions, there are at least 120 million tinnitus patients in China, and 9 out of 10 tinnitus patients will be accompanied by deafness.
2. Affect sleep: Tinnitus is especially loud in the dead of night, making it difficult to fall asleep. Some people report that they can be awakened by tinnitus when they are not sleeping deeply (tinnitus can wake the owner as well as external sounds). After waking up in the middle of the night, the tinnitus is still ringing, which makes people restless and sleepless.
3. Affect mood: Long-term severe tinnitus can cause emotional changes such as upset, worry, anxiety, anxiety, and depression. Some people would rather be inaudible than tinnitus, to an unbearable level. Some people even thought of suicide because they were told that they were "not cured" or "there is no good way" when they sought medical treatment everywhere.
4. Affect work: Tinnitus people cannot hear clear the speeches of others, especially leaders and teachers, and endure the great pain caused by deafness and tinnitus, however, they are often unable to be understood by others. So their work efficiency is reduced, and their work and study are also affected.
5. Affect the family: Because of the lack of timely treatment or the lack of proper treatment methods, the long-term medical treatment and medication will bring economic losses and even lead to huge economic pressure.
You may be asking, is there a cure for tinnitus? It mainly depends on the duration of tinnitus, which is divided into short-term and long-term, and the corresponding treatment methods for the two different situations are also different.
Treatment of transient tinnitus and deafness:
1. Drug treatment: There are many kinds of drugs to relieve the symptoms of tinnitus, but in the choice of drugs, we should pay attention to the right medicine, depending on the situation. At this time, we should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and maintain a good life mentality and work and rest system. Drugs have certain benefits for preventing and relieving tinnitus, but cannot achieve the effect of treatment;
2. Massage therapy: Massage therapy for tinnitus and deafness is through massage to play an appropriate amount of meridian sparse, but the size of the massage forehead and whether the massage can be persisted for a long time have an impact on the treatment of tinnitus and deafness.
3. Masking treatment: use tinnitus treatment device, tinnitus masker, pure tone audiometer or hearing aid. This method is a palliative approach, and can only temporarily help patients ignore the phenomenon of tinnitus. Such as radios and tinnitus suppressors. Before going to bed, you can adjust the radio to a certain audio frequency, so that the external sound is slightly louder than the tinnitus, which can have an ideal effect in such a situation.
Treatment of long-term tinnitus and deafness:
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: The traditional Chinese medicine therapy for tinnitus and deafness uses warming and invigorating lung qi, dispelling wind-cold, invigorating the kidney and strengthening the spleen, and promoting the clearing and removing dampness, so as to enhance the resistance and restore the function of the viscera. But it must be adjusted slowly, and the treatment effect is slow and long.
