how can we treat ear ringing?

Answer 1

Treatment of tinnitus depends on the cause.

If the ringing in your ears is due to age-related hearing loss or damage to your ears by exposure to excessive noise, no treatment can reduce the noise. Treatment consists mostly of managing the problem. Your doctor can discuss with you steps you can take every day to reduce the severity of the noise or to better cope with the noise.

If the ringing in your ears is due to another health condition, your doctor may be able to take steps that could reduce the noise, such as removing impacted earwax. Tinnitus resulting from a vascular condition often can be corrected by fixing the underlying problem. If a medication you're taking appears to be the cause of tinnitus, your doctor may recommend discontinuing the drug or switching to a different medication.

Varying success for medications
Many medications have been tried to relieve tinnitus with varying degrees of success. Tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline and nortriptyline, have been used with some success, but these medications have troublesome side effects, such as dry mouth, blurred vision and constipation.

Two recent clinical trials found that the migraine medications gabapentin (Neurontin) and acamprosate (Campral), a drug used to treat alcoholism, are effective in relieving tinnitus for some people.

Treatments with limited results
Some other treatments that have been tried, but which have had inconsistent results, are:

Acupuncture
Hypnosis
The herb ginkgo
Cochlear implant, an electronic hearing device
Electrical stimulation
Medications, such as benzodiazepines (nervous system depressants) and baclofen (a muscle relaxant)
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a therapy to get a high level of oxygen in your blood
Zinc

Answer 2

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Answer 4

Most of the time, this is difficult to treat. There are some medications that sometimes help but often, this eventually goes away on its own. It never hurts to talk with you doctor about this to make sure something serious is not causing the "ringing"

Answer 5

Treatment of tinnitus depends on the cause. If due to hypertension, control blood pressure. If due to hypernatremia, reduce serum sodium. If due to otosclerosis, a stapedectomy may resolve it. If due to trauma, it may resolve on its own. If it's like most tinnitus and it's idiopathic (no known cause), there's no treatment that will stop it. Serous otitis media and inner ear disease can cause it. Resolve these and most likely the tinnitus will also be resolved. Sensorineural damage can cause it but it's not likely to resolve. Some drugs, like aspirin, can cause it. Earwax (cerumen) and foreign bodies in the ear can cause it. Remove them and fix the problem. Like I said, the treatment or lack of depends on what's causing it.

Tinnitus is one of the most common ear complaints there is.