Causes and treatment of noise in the left ear

1 Causes of ailment

Most people suffer from noise in the left ear, so treatment at home is initial and mandatory. To cure the ear, people's methods and medications will help, but it is worth remembering that first of all it is necessary to find out the causes of noise, otherwise the situation will worsen, and the problem will appear in the right ear.

This ailment has a variety of serious causes of appearance. Most often, the noise in the left ear, which is not accompanied by signs of inflammation, suggests that there are malfunctions in the conductive ear system or in the center of the brain hearing. Sometimes the cause of noise in the ear are sulfur fuses, and then both sides of the ears suffer. Noise in the ears is the first bell of the fact that a person has a worsening of the state of the vessels. Examples are atherosclerosis, cardiovascular insufficiency or stenosis of blood vessels.

In addition, noise may indicate the presence of metabolic, inflammatory and neoplastic diseases. Other causes may be pathologies associated with blood vessels and tumors.

Otitis is one of the most common causes of tinnitus. Its symptoms are:

• redness of the external auditory canal;
• pain when touching the ear;
• itching;
• purulent discharge.

You can get otitis if the ear gets water or an inaccurate cleaning of the ears with cotton buds, which eventually led to the disease. In inflammatory diseases, such as sinusitis or otitis media, the problem in question is observed without interruption. Such causes cause noise in the right or left ear, but not in both.

Another reason for the ailment is the taking of certain medications, which are accompanied by unpleasant side effects. In addition, noise in the left ear can be triggered by smoking, head trauma, coffee abuse, stressful situations, fatigue, too long and excessive external noises( most often due to work activity), and still old age.

According to the results of the research, 30% of people feel ringing in the ears, and in 20% of them it manifests more intensively. And by the way, half of them say that noise appears only in the right ear or only in the left ear, and the second - in both, and at once.

If the noise becomes permanent, this indicates that the person may have hearing damage. This reason is typical for people aged 40 years. It is worth noting that men are more prone to this ailment, as their maintenance with industrial noises is much higher.

An important point is that you can not put the diagnosis yourself. Only a doctor can correctly determine what is the true cause of noise in the left ear, and prescribe a treatment. Be sure to clarify the doctor combination of folk remedies with prescribed medications.

Very often it happens that noise occurs after a long exposure to too loud sound, the so-called acoustic trauma. This can happen to fans of large concerts in the stadiums. In this case, unpleasant feelings will pass by themselves after a couple of hours, but provided a calm and quiet environment.

Sometimes noise can appear after a flight, diving, and even a parachute jump. In this case, there is barotrauma. It appears with a sharp drop in atmospheric pressure. In addition to noise there is dizziness, ears pawn, and hearing becomes not so sharp.

If noise is accompanied by headaches and flashing flies in front of your eyes, this may indicate increased pressure. Most often this happens in elderly people, as well as in people with excess weight.

2 The main symptoms of

Most often, noise in the ears is manifested by hum, ringing, whistling and rhythmic clicking. Unpleasant sensations are continuous, periodic or pulsating( pulsating to the beat with the heart).The latter can say that an artery is blocked or inherent in the development of an aneurysm.

It happens that the ailment is accompanied by a hyperacoustic( intolerance of sounds) or sensitivity to sounds. In addition, the opposite effect may appear - a decrease in hearing, the so-called deafness, leading to complete deafness.

Noise in the left ear can have both a primary and a concomitant symptom.

Such an ailment carries many negative factors affecting the general state of a person: stress, fear, anxiety, insomnia, reduced efficiency and high fatigue. Unfortunately, a protracted anxiety can go into a more severe form - depression. It is not surprising that patients with this ailment are also burdened by mental symptoms.

It happens that children also suffer from this ailment, and the reasons are not very different from those that arise in adults. If there is inflammation in the ear, then it is accompanied by fever, a sore throat, a runny nose. At a young age the disease has the property of recurrence.

3 Treatment methods

Treatment with medication is a course of application of various drugs. Among them there are vascular, metabolic, psychotropic, antihistamines, etc. The use of psychotropic drugs is very rare and only after the resolution of the psychoneurologist. Various kinds of antidepressants, in addition to facilitating the tolerability of noise, can also trigger a number of side effects( drowsiness, stool problems, addiction, etc.).

Drugs aimed at anticonvulsant symptoms are prescribed only in cases where noise is caused by a clinical contraction of the muscles of the soft middle ear or soft palate.

If there is a tendency to allergies, then antihistamines are used. In addition, they are used if the ear is stagnant fluid.

Otitis and inflammation are treated with a pneumatic massage of the tympanic membrane. At this time, severe hearing impairment can be alleviated with the help of the latest hearing aids, which will be virtually invisible.

If there is a sulfur plug, it must be removed. This method is rather painful, since it is produced with a stream of warm water with a slight pressure, which is sent to the external auditory canal.

Psychocorrection can be made if necessary. Used autogenic training, hypnotherapy, yoga, affirmation. All these methods will contribute to the fact that a person will adjust to a positive mood, thereby the period of treatment will proceed more easily, and its results will be much better. The physical condition of a person depends on a positive mood. You can also use various types of massage and treatment with water.

The essence of traditional medicine is that treatment takes place through common means. They are medicines based on medicinal herbs, having the property of clearing blood vessels and helping to maintain blood pressure.

In the fight against the disease will help:

1. Seeds of dill. They are quite effective means to heal the noise in the ears. Brewed and taken as a regular tea. Seeds have a positive effect on the whole body. In addition, you can use rose hips, dandelion, melissa, motherwort, hawthorn, nettle.
2. Crude potatoes. Its juice must be mixed with honey and dripped into the ear. You can also use gauze tampons, which, after being soaked in a mixture, put in your ears for the night. After a week, the result will be visible, and a month later the ailment will disappear and at all.

4 Diagnosis of the disease

If the noise in the left ear becomes worse or the symptoms appear already in the right ear, then it is urgent to contact Laura. Also it is necessary to do it, if there is a strong dizziness and headaches. The doctor, after examining the patient, will talk about the causes of the onset of the disease, prescribe the necessary diagnostic methods, and, if necessary, send them to additional specialists.

Diagnostic types:

1. In normal examination, the ear is checked with special tools. With this method, the doctor checks to see if there are any foreign bodies, sulfur plugs or otitis.
2. With the help of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, the presence of various tumors of the auditory nerve can be determined.
3. Audiometry assesses the severity and various performance indicators of the hearing aid. Using this method, you can detect hearing loss.
4. Still it is possible to visit or attend the doctor-neurologist, but it becomes it at presence of signs which are characteristic, for example, at tumors of a brain.

The health of the hearing aid is very important, as it depends on him for a further happy life. Even if the noise is only in one ear, this does not mean that you can not think about the problem.

Immediately take the necessary measures to not then spend money on expensive hearing aids.

Remember that when there is noise in the ears, you should immediately consult a doctor, since noise is often the only and quite early symptom of the manifestations of ear and cardiovascular diseases. Be healthy!!!