Do you have tinnitus before you become deaf? Is there always tinnitus before deafness?

Deafness can have some negative effects on the life, psychology, and communication of some elderly people. For example, the elderly are reluctant to contact with the outside world, reduce the opportunity to communicate with others, and become more and more withdrawn, which will accelerate the occurrence of dementia in severe cases. As a reminder, after the elderly become deaf, they must seek help as soon as possible and have a hearing test once a year.

The right hearing aids can improve hearing skills.

After some elderly people have hearing impairment, they will actively discuss with their children, go to the hospital for relevant examinations, and some will also choose hearing aids to help improve their hearing. Due to factors such as the function and selection of hearing aids, some elderly people have unsatisfactory use effects in the process of using hearing aids. This is mainly due to improper wearing of hearing aids.

For example, hearing aids are like glasses, and the eyes that should have been worn at 300 degrees have been worn with a pair of 500 degrees, and they can't see clearly, and some will be dizzy when they wear them. The same is true for hearing aids, the degree of hearing loss is different for everyone, and the debugging is also different, so it is naturally not suitable to wear. It is recommended that the elderly must go to a professional institution to select and debug hearing aids under the guidance of a specialist.

Eighty percent of the elderly develop tinnitus before hearing loss.

Judging from the results of hearing examinations, after some elderly people have hearing problems, 63% of the elderly said that they have some problems communicating with their family members, and they become less and more silent, and they do not know that it is best to have a hearing examination once a year, nor do they know that hearing poor can be compensated for with hearing aids; 11% of the elderly said that they can hear clearly when they listen carefully in daily communication, and when they don't listen carefully, they hear a sound but don't know what they are talking about, and they will do some ear massage in their daily life to help relieve tinnitus; 10% of the elderly are affected by otitis media and their hearing has not been very good for decades; Only 3% of the elderly are accompanied by their family members to a professional institution to choose hearing aids. More than 80% of these patients have tinnitus before hearing loss. Tinnitus often occurs in the elderly, and it must be taken seriously.

At the same time, learn some relevant knowledge of ear disease prevention, detection, and better protection of ear hearing.

Protecting yourself from hearing loss can slow down the onset of deafness.

After the age of 50, all organs of the body will undergo aging and degeneration, and the degree of degeneration will vary from person to person. Among them, the most obvious degenerative sensations are deafness in the ears and flowers in the eyes. If you can take precautions in advance and reduce your exposure to noise in your daily life, you can effectively slow down the occurrence of deafness.

Like what. Eat a balanced diet. Pay attention to the combination of foods in your diet and eat less saturated fatty foods.

Rational use of medicines. After hearing loss is found, it should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor** and medication, but it is necessary to take or not use streptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin and other drugs that are easy to affect the auditory nerve.

Intensify your workouts. Enhance blood flow throughout the body through exercise to improve the nutrition of the inner ear**.

Stay away from noise. Long-term exposure to noise in the working and living environment will cause significant hearing loss.

Not necessarily, deafness does not necessarily mean tinnitus, and tinnitus does not necessarily mean deafness.

Patients may have symptoms of tinnitus before deafness, but it is also possible that there are no symptoms and sudden deafness.

For example, the deafness caused by neurological impairment, insufficient blood supply to blood vessels and other factors is usually not sudden, and there will be tinnitus, dizziness, headache and other abnormal symptoms before the deafness. However, if the patient suffers sudden deafness due to factors such as large trauma to the ear, craniocerebral mass lesions, etc., caused by rupture of the membranous labyrinth, there will be no obvious symptoms before the deafness.

Therefore, patients with tinnitus or deafness symptoms should go to the otolaryngology department of the hospital as soon as possible to investigate the cause of tinnitus or deafness, and avoid permanent hearing damage.

There may be symptoms of tinnitus before deafness, but it is also possible that there is no manifestation of sudden deafness without Ren He Chunhe's symptoms.

If the deafness is caused by neurological impairment, insufficient blood supply to blood vessels, etc., it is usually not sudden, and there will be tinnitus, dizziness, headache and other abnormal symptoms before the deafness. However, if the patient suffers from major trauma to the ear, craniocerebral mass lesions, etc., and the rupture of the membrane labyrinth, the sudden deafness will not have obvious symptoms before the deafness.

Therefore, patients with tinnitus or deafness symptoms should go to the otolaryngology department of the hospital as soon as possible to investigate the cause of tinnitus or deafness, as soon as possible, to avoid permanent hearing damage.