I believe many friends have had this experience: when you take a plane or elevator, the ear sometimes suddenly feel very uncomfortable, suddenly can not hear; When you can't sleep in the middle of the night, suddenly you hear the sound of your heart beating in your ears, accompanied by a humming humming sound; Even no matter the time and occasion, there will always be a variety of "metal sound", "current sound", "cicada sound" and "boom sound"......
These sounds may disappear in seconds or minutes, or they may continue on and off for hours or days, or they may follow you all the time and be disturbing.
So why do we hear this sound in our ears? Often appear these symptoms, is it a precursor to deafness? How to fix it?
The ear is one of the most important organs in our body, and it is also a particularly "delicate" organ, especially the cochlea, which is in charge of "hearing power". There are about 30,000 to 40,000 hair cells in the cochlea. These hair cells convert the sound waves collected by the auricle into nerve signals, which are transmitted to the auditory nerves in the cerebral cortex to produce what is called hearing. The cochlea, which has such a strong team, often hurts its "team members" - hair cells - due to various external factors (PS: noise, impact, etc.). What is more terrible is that the injury and death of every hair cell is irreversible, if there are too many "casualties" hair cells, our hearing will be damaged, resulting in tinnitus, deafness and other phenomena.
Many people don't know, what is tinnitus?
In simple terms, tinnitus refers to the subjective feeling of various sounds in the ear without the influence of any external sounds, such as hissing or buzzing and other sounds. According to the types of tinnitus, can be roughly divided into: secondary tinnitus and primary tinnitus.
Secondary tinnitus is a symptom of tinnitus caused by some underlying cause or clear organic factors, such as common noise, trauma, ear, throat and nose diseases, etc., may cause this type of tinnitus. Primary tinnitus refers to the appearance of tinnitus symptoms of unknown cause, which is equivalent to "irrational head".
However, according to the different tinnitus sounds, we can also carefully divide tinnitus into external ear tinnitus, nervous tinnitus, cervical spondylosis tinnitus, central tinnitus and "objective tinnitus".
Nowadays, the phenomenon of "bad ears" is no longer the patent of the elderly, and more and more young people not only have poor hearing in their ears, but also often have tinnitus.
How many workers in order to survive, in order to live a better life, often stay up late and work hard; How many students in order to grades, in order to become the eyes of parents excellent children, often stay up late to study, on a variety of cram schools, it seems that everyone is carrying a lot of pressure. Long-term mental pressure, excessive fatigue, lack of sleep, easy to affect the blood supply of the brain nerve oxygen, resulting in ear circulation disorders, tinnitus phenomenon.
Some people have a unique "personal hobby", habitually go to bars, ktv songs, music, dance activities and other high-volume entertainment venues, in these short or long-term strong noise, it is easy to lead to hearing loss, and suddenly appear tinnitus and vertigo, and even auditory hallucinations, severe cases will cause neurasthenia. In addition, such as those who are in a strong noise (ps: construction sites, mechanical equipment testing, etc.) environment for a long time because of work reasons, the above situation is also prone to occur
When we usually take a plane, high-speed elevator, the ear is also easy to feel discomfort or tinnitus. In fact, this is caused by an imbalance between the external air pressure and the air pressure in the middle ear cavity. Our middle ear cavity has a tube that keeps pressure balanced with the outside world. It's called the eustachian tube. Under normal circumstances, the eustachian tube is in a closed state, when you are in a rapid rise or fall state, the external air pressure will be smaller and smaller, if the eustachian tube is too late to open the air from the middle ear cavity out, the ear will be oppressed, distending pain, tinnitus and other uncomfortable feeling. At such times, you can relieve yourself by opening your mouth, drinking water, eating, and talking.
Many times, tinnitus is not only a problem with the ear, but also may be a problem with other organs in the body!
On the one hand, such as auditory system diseases, external auditory canal with mass or foreign body, or otitis media, sudden deafness, trauma, noise deafness, senile deafness and other conditions, will also induce tinnitus symptoms. On the other hand, systemic diseases, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, "three high", diabetes, autonomic nervous disorders, mental tension, emotional anxiety, endocrine disorders, cervical spondylosis and poor dental occlusion and other factors may also induce tinnitus symptoms.
Not all tinnitus causes deafness, depending on what causes it, and the effects vary from type to type.
However, regular tinnitus, to a large extent, is a health problem in ear tissues and other tissues, which is not only easy to cause hearing loss, but also may be a precursor to deafness. Moreover, when you are in the state of long-term tinnitus, their own psychological pressure will be very large, but also easy to produce a variety of sounds in the ear fear, in this case, often make people irritable, people's energy is difficult to concentrate, auditory sensitivity decline, it is easy to affect work efficiency and social life state, but also affect sleep and mental health.
In the face of many adverse effects of tinnitus, how do we judge the severity of our tinnitus?
Tinnitus for more than 3 days; The hearing sense is getting worse and worse, the two ears are hard of hearing such as deafness, and the symptoms are more obvious in the afternoon and night. Tinnitus is accompanied by ear itching, ear pain, ant crawling or ear swelling or pressure, etc. When tinnitus attacks, it can also produce dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headache or unilateral hearing loss; Continuous and steady noise in the ear, such as buzzing, whoosh, worm chirping or mechanical rumbling; Tinnitus, often feel difficult to sit, irritable mood, very affect work and sleep. If you have more than the above 2 symptoms or continue the above 1 symptoms for a long time, indicating that the tinnitus situation has been more serious, should go to a professional hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.
Don't wear headphones casually
First of all, since we all know that wearing ears for a long time can damage hearing, we should wear headphones more reasonably. Adults wear headphones to achieve the "double six principle", that is, no more than 60 minutes each time, and try to lower the volume, the highest volume is kept below 60 decibels. Headphones are not recommended when you are in noisy environments, taking public transportation, or sleeping. If you have to bring it, please try to use noise-cancelling headphones, which can help you cut off some noise to a certain extent.
Don't pick your ears
Do not often pick your ears, do not go to informal institutions for ear picking, even if the ear is really blocked by earwax or foreign bodies, you can choose to go to the hospital to register the external ear canal washing service, rather than blindly pick.
Don't go to places that are too "busy"
If you want to protect the ear, you should also stay away from the noise source and maintain a certain distance from the sound source (such as speakers, players, etc.) to avoid loud sound stimulation of the eardrum. If you have to be in a noisy environment (at a construction site, bar, concert, dance, etc.), you can try noise-canceling headphones or other ear protection products, which can effectively reduce noise. In addition, it is necessary to have regular work and rest times, reduce emotional tension, avoid staying up too late, and regularly do ear health checks to improve self-protection awareness, so as to detect early intervention.
