Monday, November 30, 2009

Pulsatile Tinnitus And Its Top Six Causes

By Toby Carr

Many people are surprised to learn that there are 2 sorts of tinnitus. The commonest type is called non-pulsatile tinnitus, with the least common and less popular type being pulsatile tinnitus. You can customarily tell them apart by the sort of sounds you can hear.

As the name implies, pulsatile tinnitus has a tendency to sound like your own heart beat, whereas non-pulsatile tinnitus may appear like an assortment of familiar noises such as ringing, chirping, whirring or clicking. It is strange but possible to have these two sorts of tinnitus together, and folk who have both of conditions usually say the pulsatile component is the more bothersome. The focus of this article is to gain a better understanding of pulsatile tinnitus, its causes and how you can take the first step to assuaging its symptoms.

Pulsatile tinnitus is a rare form of tinnitus, with only about 3 p.c. of patients reported to have it. It is sometimes referred to as vascular tinnitus and is usually related to disturbances in the blood flow. The turbulence is then amplified and can be heard in the ears as a whooshing, thrashing or other regular sound.

The Top Six factors behind Pulsatile Tinnitus :

1. A Benign Growth : Growths of this nature are sometimes found in or near the ear. Often with a tumor, deafness is also a typical symptom.

2. Brain Abrasions : One sort of lesion is an aneurism, and another type is a unnatural connection between an artery and a vein. In either case the blood flow is putting too much strain on the veins and must be treated .

3. Veinous Hum : Patients who are malnutritioned, pregnant, or have thyroid issues, may develop increased blood flow through the jugular vein, which amplifies the sound of blood flow in the ear.

4. Narrowing Of The Arteries ( Atherosclerosis ) : Atherosclerosis is the narrowing of the artery due to cholesterol build-up on the artery wall. This condition reduces the opening of the arteries. This typically occurs in older patients with a history of raised blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, angina and smoking.

5. Benign Intracranial High Blood Pressure ( BIH ) : In this condition there's increased pressure round the fluid that bathes the backbone and / or the brain. Usually this conditioned is caused by oversized.

6. High Blood Pressure ( Hypertension ) : Some patients who take medication for their hypertension report signs of pulsatile tinnitus shortly after they began taking it. Still others report hypertension and tinnitus at the same time, and when they take the blood pressure medication the symptoms go away.

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