What Causes Tinnitus?

Noise-induced hearing loss - Exposure to loud noises can damage and even destroy hair cells, called cilia, in the inner ear. Once damaged, these hair cells cannot be renewed or replaced. Hearing loss can also be caused by excessive noise exposure. Coincidentally, up to 90 percent of all tinnitus patients have some level of hearing loss.

Chances are the cause of your tinnitus will remain a mystery. Only when a specific factor is linked to the appearance or disappearance of the tinnitus can a cause be stated with certainty. Blows to the head, large doses of certain drugs such as aspirin, anemia, hypertension, noise exposure, stress, impacted ear wax and certain types of tumors are examples of conditions that might cause tinnitus.

Causes include:

Wax build-up in the ear canal
Certain medications
Ear or sinus infections
Jaw misalignment
Cardiovascular disease
Certain types of tumors
Head and neck trauma

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New website with a guide to understanding how to cure tinnitus , including what it is, how it is caused and how it is treated. (PRWEB) March 4, 2010 -- New website with a guide to understanding how to cure tinnitus , including what it is, how it is ...

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ASHWAUBENON -- Northern Lights Clinic is offering a tinnitus management program and is hosting an informational seminar March 16. Often described as a ringing or buzzing in the ears, tinnitus affects 50 million people in the United States. Northern ...

Clinic offering tinnitus seminar - Green Bay Press-Gazette

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Over the counter painkillers like acetaminophen (paracetamol), aspirin, and ibuprofen can lead to increased hearing loss risk, according to a recent US study. The researchers found that the risk was mainly in men younger than 50 who took more than ...

Common painkillers affect hearing - hc2d.co.uk

DETROIT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Fifty million people live every day with ringing in their ears. It's called tinnitus , and there is no cure. A new treatment could silence the ringing and give thousands of sufferers relief. You need Flash Player 8 or ...

Silence the Ringing in Your Ears - Ivanhoe

Symptoms include attacks of vertigo, dizziness, nausea, hearing loss, and tinnitus (TIN-IT-US), or ringing in the ear. It may begin in one ear and spread to the other. While there's no absolute cure, an ear, nose and throat specialist may develop a ...

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When I was growing up, one of my mother's favorite admonitions -- along with "If you keep making that face, it's going to freeze that way" and "Don't sit too close to the television or you're going to need glasses" -- was the classic "Turn that music ...