BY-DR.SUDEEP K.C.

TINNITUS

-DEFINED AS RINGING SOUND OR NOISE IN THE EAR.

-MAY BE UNILATERAL OR BILATERAL-IT MAY VARY IN PITCH AND LOUDNESS AND

HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED BY THE PATIENT AS ROARING,HISSING ,SWISHIN, RUSTLING OR CLICKING SOUND.

-IT IS MOSTLY HEARD IN THE QUITE ENVIROMENT AND IS MORE ANNOYING.

TINNITUS

TYPES OF TINNITUS

SUBJECTIVE- WHICH CAN OLY BE HEARD BY THE PATIENT

OBJECTIVE-CAN EVEN BE HEARD BY THE EXAMINER WITH THE USE OF STEHOSCOPE

CAUSES OF TINNITUS

• SUBJECTIVE-ORIGINATE FROM EXTERNAL EAR,MIDDLE EAR, INNER EAR, VIIITH NERVE OR CNS.

• OBJECTIVE –MOSTLY VASCULAR LESIONS LIKE GLOMUS TUMOUR OR CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM .

• TINNITUS SYNCHRONOUS WITH RESPIRATION MAY OCCUR DUE TO ABNORMALLY PATENT EUSTACHIAN TUBE .

• SOMETIME TINNITUS IS PSYCHOGENIC AND NO CAUSE CAN BE FOUND IN THE EAR OR CNS.

CAUSES OF TINNITUS

1.SUBJECTIVE CAUSES- OTOLOGIC-

IMPACTED WAX FLUID IN THE MIDDLE EAR ACUTE AND CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA ABNORMALLY PATENT EUSTACHIAN TUBE MENIERE’S DISEASE OTOSCLEROSIS PRESBYACUSIS NOISE TRAUMA OTOTOXIC DRUGS TUMOURS OF VIII TH NERVE

»NON OTOLOGIC• DISEASE OF CNS • ANAEMIA• ARTERIOSCLEROSIS• HYPERTENSION• HYPOTENSION• HYPOGLYCAEMIA• EPILEPSY• MIGRAINE

2.OBJECTIVESVASCULAR TUMOURS OF MIDDLE

EAR(GLOMUS TUMOUR)ANEURYSM OF CAROTID ARTERYPALATAL MYOCLONUS

TINNITUS SHOULD BE DIFFERENTIATED FROM AUDITORY HALLUCINATION

3.PSYCHOGENIC

TREATMENTTREATMENT SHOULD BE DIRECTED TOWARDS

THE CAUSE IF NO CAUSE FOUND THEN

1.REASSURANCE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

2.TECHNIQUES OF RELAXATION AND BIOFEEDBACK

3.SEDATION AND TRANQUILIZERS

4.MASKING OF TINNITUS

• TINNITUS MASKERS CAN BE USED IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE NO HEARING LOSS.

• THEY ARE WORN LIKE A HEARING AID• USE OF TINNITUS MASKER FOR A SHORT TIME

MAY PROVIDE, IN SOME INDIVIDUALS, A SYMPTOM FREE PERIOD FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO THE PHENOMENON OF RESIDUAL INHIBITION

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