Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Pulsatile Tinnitus And Its Top 6 Causes

By Harvey Wolfe

Many folks are stunned to find out that there are 2 sorts of tinnitus. The commonest type is named non-pulsatile tinnitus, with the least common and less familiar type being pulsatile tinnitus. You can often split them apart by the sort of sounds you may hear.

As the name implies, pulsatile tinnitus has a tendency to sound like your own heartbeat, whereas non-pulsatile tinnitus may seem like a range of familiar noises such as ringing, chirping, whirring or clicking. It is strange but possible to have these 2 types of tinnitus together, and folks who have both of conditions often say the pulsatile part is the more troublesome. The focus of this article is to gain a better knowledge of pulsatile tinnitus, its causes and how you can take step one to assuaging its symptoms.

Pulsatile tinnitus is an unusual type of tinnitus, with only about 3% of patients reported to have it. It is commonly referred to as vascular tinnitus and is mostly related to disturbances in the blood flow. The turbulence is then amplified and can be heard in the ears as a whooshing, beating or other regular sound.

The Top 6 factors behind Pulsatile Tinnitus :

1. A Benign Cancer : Tumors of this nature are usually found in or close to the ear. Usually with a growth, hearing loss is also a common symptom.

2. Brain Lesions : One type of laceration is an aneurism, and another type is an aberrant connection between an artery and a vein. In either case the blood flow is putting too much pressure on the veins and must be handled.

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 increase on the artery wall. This condition decreases the opening of the arteries. This sometimes happens in older patients with a record of high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, heartburn and smoking.

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

6. Hypertension ( Hypertension ) : Some patients who take medicine for their raised blood pressure report evidence of pulsatile tinnitus just 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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