Treatment and Medications
Besides its bothersome reality, there has been no perfect cure for tinnitus to date. There are multiple procedures which may help in its management, but neither of these guarantees a hundred percent cure. Some of the common ways for its management are discussed.
Treatment of underlying causes
As have been briefed above that tinnitus can be a warning sign or a symptom of an already existing disease, proper management of the underlying cause can effectively treat tinnitus.
Tinnitus, in hypertensive patients can be dealt with proper maintenance of blood pressure. Among the antihypertensive medications, the ototoxic drugs would be avoided.
Tinnitus as a symptom of otoscleorosis is largely reversible with a successful surgical procedure to alleviate the effects of fixated middle ear bone. Similarly, curing Meniere’s disease also means getting away with the ringing in the ears.
Wax clearance in the case of wax impaction in the ear can be cleared by a process of syringing, which also relieve tinnitus if it was the factor precipitating it. However, tinnitus can be multifactorial in its origin. Treating one underlying cause may not produce desired results in all cases.