General rhinitis is not the main cause of tinnitus.

What causes tinnitus?

1, infection and trauma

If you have otitis media, or inner ear infection, ear trauma, etc. Secondary tinnitus may occur. There are two kinds of tinnitus, which are pure tone tinnitus and medium-high frequency tinnitus. And tinnitus is also divided into intermittent and persistent. People's ears may pulsate when they are infected with acute infection.

2. Acoustic neuroma

Patients with acoustic neuroma usually have tinnitus symptoms, which are persistent, progressive, unilateral or bilateral, and may also have hearing loss and dizziness. This acoustic neuroma involves the cerebellopontine angle and has peripheral or central effects on the cochlea and vestibular system.

3. Noise effects

Violent sound and long-term exposure to noise can lead to hearing loss and tinnitus. Attention should be paid to noise protection for high-risk groups (working in high-intensity noise environment). Such as reducing noise sources or wearing protective earmuffs and earplugs. In addition, be careful not to wear headphones to listen to music at high volume for a long time in a noisy environment.

4. Mental stress and fatigue

When people are in a state of high mental tension and physical fatigue for a long time, it is easy to aggravate tinnitus or have symptoms of intermittent tinnitus. Therefore, it is beneficial to adjust the working rhythm properly, relax the mood of tinnitus patients and divert their attention from tinnitus.

5. Bad habits

Improper diet can also cause tinnitus, such as regular intake of caffeine and alcohol, which will aggravate tinnitus symptoms. If smoking can reduce blood oxygen, it will damage inner ear hair cells and avoid ear diseases.

Harm of tinnitus

1, Psychological stress: Once you suffer from tinnitus, especially severe tinnitus for a long time, it will often make people fidgety, thus making people feel pessimistic and bored. This kind of boredom in turn aggravates tinnitus symptoms, a vicious circle, and aggravates the mental burden of patients with tinnitus, which is often manifested in ideological worries, fears, excessive mental stress, etc., which seriously affects work and causes great pressure on life and society. Severe persistent tinnitus often causes patients to expect what catastrophic lesions are coming, thus producing a feeling of extreme fear and great psychological pressure.

2, leading to ear infection, causing congestion, especially when foreign bodies enter the ear, this symptom is particularly obvious, and the discomfort of the ear will be very serious. Conductive tinnitus can occur when foreign bodies in the ear, inflammation and swelling are blocked, eardrum congestion, tinnitus, perforation, middle ear effusion or infection, otosclerosis and other symptoms appear. This kind of tinnitus is characterized by unilateral, that is, tinnitus occurs on one side of the lesion, with a low tone and rhythm.

3, affect the mood: long-term severe tinnitus can make people feel flustered, worried, worried, anxious, depressed and other emotional changes. Some people would rather be deaf than tinnitus, which is unbearable. Some people even thought of suicide, because they were told that "there is no good treatment" and "there is no good treatment" when seeking medical treatment everywhere.

4. Excessive anxiety: According to the survey data, at least 2/3 of tinnitus patients are worried about tinnitus, and the psychological state of excessive anxiety makes them frown all day, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.

5. Hearing impact: it affects the hearing of patients. Tinnitus is a harbinger of deafness, because the occurrence of tinnitus makes patients have spontaneous noises in their ears, which makes people feel very uncomfortable and will have a more and more serious impact on hearing. Therefore, we must pay attention to the injury of auditory nerve. Very loud tinnitus will interfere with what we hear. We often hear voices but can't tell what others say. We also have to endure the great pain caused by tinnitus and affect our work.

6, affecting sleep: tinnitus is particularly loud in the dead of night, making it difficult to sleep. Even if I fell asleep, it was very shallow. Some people complain that if they don't sleep deeply, they will be awakened by tinnitus (tinnitus can wake people up like external sounds). Because after waking up in the middle of the night, tinnitus still keeps ringing, which makes people fidgety and difficult to sleep.

7, affecting family life: long-term medical treatment for tinnitus will bring economic losses, and even lead to huge economic pressure. If it is not understood by family members, it will affect family harmony.

8. Affect the work: because I can't hear others' speeches clearly, especially the speeches of the instructors and teachers, I endure the great pain caused by tinnitus, but I often can't understand it, so the efficiency of the task decreases and my interest in the task and further study is frustrated.