How to check tinnitus and what are the treatment options for tinnitus?

Tinnitus is a relatively common symptom. When tinnitus occurs, the ears are filled with buzzing noises, which have a significant impact on people's daily lives, especially causing irritability and damaging their sleep quality. Tinnitus can be checked by the following methods.

1: If the patient is determined to receive treatment, he or she should go to a regular hospital for examination and receive an external and middle ear examination from a professional ENT physician to rule out conductive hearing loss caused by diseases of the external and middle ears.

2: Physical examination includes pure tone audiometry (electrical audiometry), tinnitus measurement, acoustic impedance test (acoustic impedance), electrical response audiometry (brainstem evoked potential, examination, electroencephalogram, cerebral blood flow graph, nail fold microcirculation test, X-ray of skull base, internal auditory canal, middle ear mastoid position), CT scan (head and internal auditory canal), MRI examination, etc.

1: The diagnosis of tinnitus in patients requires at least a comprehensive audiological evaluation as described above, as well as temporal bone CT and head MRI.

2: To identify sensorineural hearing loss, the aforementioned tests for distinguishing sensorineural from neural hearing loss must be used.

3: Pulsatile tinnitus requires examination of the vascular system including angiography of the carotid artery and vertebral artery to rule out arterial obstruction, aneurysm and vascular tumor.

1: Generally, it is necessary to conduct some systemic examinations on the patient to help analyze the condition. The main tests include routine blood test, routine urine test, liver function, kidney function, blood biochemistry, serum iron, blood iron binding capacity, thrombosis test, blood gas analysis (blood oxygen saturation), blood fibrinogen, platelet aggregation function, blood immunoglobulin complement (C3, C4) test, thyroid function test (T3, examination), full blood lipid analysis, blood rheology, and blood globulin test.

It is necessary to check in advance to prevent tinnitus, and it is a necessary prerequisite for diagnosis during the examination. Experts remind: Patients should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time after discovering the disease, so that the disease can be better treated. Patients should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment to better recover their health.