Can I drink alcohol if I have tinnitus?

Neurological tinnitus is now one of the more difficult medical problems to solve in the world. The disease is a strange sensation caused by damage to the auditory nerve, leading to hearing disorder. Patients will feel that there are cicadas chirping in their ears at a very high frequency, or relatively sharp calls, the clanging sound of a train, etc. So, can you drink alcohol when you have neurological tinnitus? Now let me tell you in detail.

Before diagnosing neurological tinnitus, other causes should be excluded, including tinnitus caused by external ear and middle ear diseases, and hearing loss should be detected during hearing testing. Generally speaking, in clinical treatment of sensorineural hearing loss, vasodilator drugs are often used to increase blood flow to ischemic tissues, reduce vascular intimal edema, and improve endolymphatic circulation to maintain the normal function of tissue cells.

Neurological tinnitus is a disorder of the sensorineural part of the auditory system. Tinnitus occurs when the inner ear auditory receptors are diseased, such as due to drug poisoning, noise trauma, Meniere's disease, etc.; when the auditory nerve and auditory center are traumatized or inflamed, poisoned, ischemic, or tumorous; and when various intracranial lesions affect the auditory nerve or auditory center.

Patients with neurological tinnitus can drink alcohol, but not too much.

Patients with neurological tinnitus should also pay attention to the following:

1. Have an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards life. Once you have tinnitus, don't be overly nervous. While cooperating with the treatment, you can cultivate some interests to adjust your life rhythm and distract yourself from the tinnitus.

2 Avoid staying in a high-decibel noise environment for a long time, but don't be in an overly quiet environment, because most tinnitus is more obvious in a quiet environment.

3 If the environment is so quiet that tinnitus is annoying, you can create some background sounds at an appropriate volume to distract your attention, such as listening to music or watching TV.

4 Avoid or use ototoxic drugs with caution and smoke less.

5. Maintain a regular lifestyle and remember to get enough sleep. Because there is a close relationship between insomnia and tinnitus, tinnitus can affect sleep, and lack of sleep will aggravate tinnitus, forming a vicious circle.

6 The causes of tinnitus are rather complicated. The severity of the disease is closely related to the individual's mental state. It is generally stubborn and sometimes lasts for several years or even decades. Therefore, in the process of cooperating with the treatment, we must have perseverance, confidence, and be mentally prepared for long-term treatment.

Patients should supplement some iron-rich foods, such as animal liver, sheep blood, lean meat, eggs, spinach, etc., and also supplement foods rich in zinc, such as onions, oysters, etc., eat more seafood, bananas and walnuts, supplement calcium, eat soy products, drink pork rib soup, drink milk, do not drink strong tea, do not eat fatty meat, and it is best to eat vegetable oil.