Why do people's ears ring?

Answer 1

The reason why you can hear anything is because in your cochlea (in your inner ear) there are tiny hair-like structures that are sensitive to vibration. A sound hits your ear drum and makes the drum move some small bones (the smallest bones in the body) and then they transfer this movement to the cochlea. Inside the cochlea there is a viscous material that transfers but resists the vibration. A vibration passes through this material and stimulates a hair that is sensitive to that certain frequency. This causes a nerve impulse to be sent to your brain and you hear the sound.

When you have ringing in your ear, it is the hairs giving off abnormal signals to the brain. This is why you hear a single tone (frequency), not a "chord". The ringing may come from damage (such as loud music) or from infection (a cold or flu), or even due to other problems not related to your ear.

Sometimes, when there is brain or nerve damage due to an accident, the nerve may cause the brain to be stimulated or the neurons in the brain may simply abnormally fire so you hear a constant ringing. Usually ringing is normal and goes away soon after it starts. If it doesn't, call your doctor because it may be a sign of nerve damage.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This is going to be the most common health problem of our entire generation. Once you hear that ringing...it means you were exposed to some pretty loud sound that was SO loud (you know how the opera singer can break a crystal glass?) ...the same thing happens on a very small scale inside your ear where microscopic hairs that line the inside of this snail-shell shaped thing called the choclea. When hairs rupture in there it causes sort of a bio feedback short-circuit which happens in the brain and sounds like your ear is ringing. Every time you hear ringing....you are hearing a loss of frequency----you are becoming a little more deafened. Scary, huh?

Answer 4

For years, the answer to this question has been evasive to medical scientists. They say there's no such thing as "perfect silence", with exception for totally deaf persons.

It's been a long debate the culprit is ear wax buildup.

Today, they tend to belive the ringing sound in our ears may come from irregular blood flow in the intricate veins in and around our ears.....and they offer workable treatments, should the condition of ringing in the ears be a commonly occurring one.

Answer 5

i think its because every so often your ear drops a little blood into some part of your ear and you here a ring =)

Answer 6

when the small hearing things in ur ear are broken they wiull ring to let you know u need to notch down music or loud things.... so basically it means your earrdrums are dying but this is normal

Answer 7

the nerve "hairs" are over worked. the ringing is called tinitus. overexposure to loud sounds can cause this and extended exposure kills the hairs which causes hearing loss.

Answer 8

COLD IN THE EARS AS MUM USED TO SAY
KEEP WARM

Answer 9

Could be a condition called tinnitus if it continues

Answer 10

why they ring??? ask ur question in a better way then maybe i can help u