What Is a Viral Ear Infection?

Viral tinnitus also belongs to one of the common clinical tinnitus, which is mainly caused by viral infections. Severe viral tinnitus can also cause deafness, facial paralysis and other complications.

Viral tinnitus

Viral tinnitus also belongs to one of the common clinical tinnitus, which is mainly caused by viral infections. Severe viral tinnitus can also cause deafness, facial paralysis and other complications.

Chinese name

Viral tinnitus

Category

disease

Cause

Various acute infectious diseases

Precautionary measures

Reduced noise exposure

1, various acute infectious diseases,

The typical symptoms of viral tinnitus and tinnitus are difficult to distinguish: they all feel monotonous or mixed sounds such as cicadas, buzzing, and hissing in the ears.

If you want to determine whether it is viral tinnitus, according to the patient's description, such as: suffering from viral influenza, has not completely recovered, and tinnitus later, it is most likely to be viral tinnitus.

1. Prevention of colds and influenza: Colds and influenza are caused by viruses in the air entering the respiratory tract through various routes. Therefore, the virus always exists in the ear, nose and throat, and it may cause viral tinnitus. While actively preventing colds,

Action 1: Tympanum Massage

After work, the left and right ears are blocked at the same time with the palms of both hands, and they quickly leave after squeezing. This can promote blood circulation in the ears, which is good for alleviating tinnitus and reducing brain fatigue.

Action 2: ear massage

Gently rub the ears and earlobes when washing your face, or hold the palms of your hands against your ears, put your thumbs behind your head, and tap your back with your four fingers. This can stimulate nerve endings to promote blood, lymphatic circulation, and tissue metabolism, and regulate the body's internal organs And relieve tinnitus.

Action 3: Open and shut up

Every morning when you get up, open your mouth as much as possible, exhale outward, and then close it by taking a hard breath. This way of stretching and closing multiple times in a row can not only make the multiple muscles of the face move rhythmically, It can also promote the metabolism of the body. One-in-one mouth can speed up blood circulation. It can also make the throat move, keep the Eustachian tube unobstructed, and keep the pressure inside and outside the ears in a balanced state. It has a very good effect on the prevention of tinnitus.

Action 4: hold your breath

Sit still, fix your teeth, pinch your nostrils with two fingers, and open your eyes angrily until the sound is heard. This can increase the pressure on the blood vessels in the ear and concentrate more blood here. Good for relieving tinnitus.

Action 5: Hot pack

Use a warm towel to cling to your ears, or rub your hands until you feel your palms warm. Press your palms tightly on your ears, and use the temperature to expand the blood vessels in your ears to increase local blood supply.

1. Radish and seaweed soup: Radish itself has a moisture content of 97.7%, and is rich in vitamin A and vitamin C, containing a certain amount of calcium, phosphorus, carbohydrates and a small amount of protein, iron and other vitamins and other beneficial ingredients. And seaweed contains up to 29 to 35% protein, as well as iodine, multivitamins and inorganic salts, especially rich in magnesium, which can provide nutrition for inner ear sensory cells and middle ear epithelial cells. Therefore, the combination of the two makes the soup not only delicious, but also enhances the vitality of the ear cells. In the long run, the treatment of viral tinnitus will have a very good effect;

2. Lean meat porridge: Lean meat is rich in zinc, which is the necessary nutrition for the inner ear. The survey results show that the content of zinc in the inner ear of young people is significantly different from that of the elderly, and the zinc content of the inner ear of the elderly It is in a decreasing form. Therefore, supplementing with rich zinc is very necessary for the treatment of viral tinnitus, and the fungus has a high iron content, which can promote the oxygen supply, which makes the inner ear blood circulation more smooth. In addition, the fungus itself has a detoxifying effect. It has a unique effect on viral tinnitus;

1.Reduce noise exposure

If exposed to the roar of the machine for a long time, factory noise, noise and other noise, human voice, inner ear can cause spasms often in tiny blood vessels, blood supply to the inner ear decreases, and hearing drops sharply. Therefore, it is the first hearing for protection to try to avoid or reduce noise interference. ^[1]

Avoid dug ears

Frequent ear spoons, match sticks, and dug ears can easily bruise the ear canal, causing infections and inflammation, and also breaking the eardrum. Itchy ear canal. You can use a cotton swab dipped in a little alcohol or glycerin to gently wipe the ear canal, or you can take vitamin B, C and cod liver oil by mouth.

3. Don't wear headphones for a long time

When you often use headphones to listen to music MP3, MP4 or MP5 or watch videos, remember not to turn the volume too high, do not use it for a long time, because it will cause your hearing loss, if you want to use it for a long time, you can not use headset.

4. Maintain a good mental state

If you are constantly in a state of irritability and anger, the body will cause loss of normal regulation of autonomic nerve functions, making ischemia, edema, and hearing impaired inner ear organs, so hearing loss is prone to occur. Therefore, try to relax yourself in a good mood.

5. Frequent local ear massage

Massaging the wind points before and after the earlobe (in the earlobe and high bone depressions) and the hearing points (earboard, below the posterior edge of the depressed face of the chin) can increase blood circulation in the inner ear and protect hearing. Massage should be every morning and evening, every 5-10 minutes, long time, effective.

6. Pay attention to drug-induced tinnitus and deafness

Try to avoid the use of ototoxic drugs, such as gentamicin, streptomycin, kanamycin, neomycin, etc. These drugs may cause ototoxicity and damage hearing. Ototoxic deaf patients should pay attention!