How to treat tinnitus during sleep?

Some friends will feel obvious tinnitus in their ears when they sleep, and some patients will also suffer from insomnia, which seriously affects their life and physical health. There are many causes of tinnitus, such as ear disease, excessive mental stress, etc. If you want to treat such a situation in time, you must first find out the specific cause. For example, if tinnitus is caused by otitis media, it can be treated with relevant drugs. If it is caused by excessive mental stress, you can appropriately relax your stress and mood, or find a relevant psychologist for examination and guidance.

1. Treatment of the cause

Treat the underlying disorder causing tinnitus.

2. Medication

Vasodilators, calcium ion blockers, tinnitus suppressants, drugs that reduce the effects of tinnitus, and neurotrophic drugs, etc.

3. Psychological consultation and adjustment

Analyze the causes and pathological conditions of tinnitus, eliminate the patient's worries, warn the patient to place himself in an environment rich in sound, actively contact the sounds of nature, strive to coexist with tinnitus, compare tinnitus to the roar of a train, refrigerator noise, etc. in order to adapt to and get used to these sounds, let the patient try his best to eliminate the psychological reactions caused by tinnitus, suppress negative emotions, and build confidence that tinnitus can be treated.

4. Masking treatment

It can be done using tinnitus therapy devices, tinnitus maskers, pure tone audiometers or hearing aids.

5. Tinnitus retraining and habituation therapy

The purpose is to make the patient adapt and get used to tinnitus, thereby reducing the severity of tinnitus and relieving the physical and mental disorders caused by tinnitus to the patient.

6. Auditory sound therapy

7. Others

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment, etc.

In addition, we must also prevent tinnitus in our daily lives. In life, we should eat more zinc-containing foods, such as apples, chicken, etc., and also eat iron-rich foods. The most important thing is to try to avoid noise pollution. Long-term noise will cause damage to our hearing organs. For friends who already have tinnitus, they must change their bad living habits, do not drink or smoke, because smoking and drinking will only aggravate the symptoms of tinnitus. In serious cases, it is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment.