Clinically speaking,
tinnitus and vestibular disorders
originate from the same source –
the inner ear. In other words, Tinnitus and Vertigo are
more or less interrelated. Human ear is provided, among
others, with an acoustic or hearing nerve and a
balancing or vestibular nerve. However, when something
goes wrong with them, problems occur in the form of
symptoms that manifest in the following ways.
- When the vestibular
nerve or the balancing nerve is damaged or
disturbed, balancing problems such as dizziness,
vertigo, etc. show themselves
up.
- When the acoustic or hearing
nerve is injured, hearing problems such as loss of
hearing, Tinnitus, etc. become evident.
Vestibular
Disorder and Tinnitus Common Causes
In order
to understand the underlying causes of vestibular
disorder, i.e. dizziness, vertigo, etc. and tinnitus
with its symptoms of ringing in the ear, it may be
pertinent to know that the body’s own immune system and
its inflammatory response system also play significant
roles in these two issues. The immune system, as we
know, tries to keep the body in a healthy state,
maintaining the balance and proportion in the right
percentage. However, when this gets weakened, the vigil
becomes impaired and any form of infection affecting the
inner ear remains unchecked. This in turn affects the
nerves that control the acoustics as well as the
balancing or the vestibular nerves, as a result of
which, Tinnitus and vestibular disorders materialize in
an otherwise healthy person.
As for the
inflammatory response, which is a fairly significant
healthy issue, it sometimes takes a wrong move. When a
person accidentally injures a toe, the inflammatory
response immediately comes into action and the toe may
swell up with extra fluids. In fact, the system tries to
wash out this additional fluid accumulation. The same
happens when an eye is exposed to dust – the extra fluid
comes in the form of tears to wash it
out.
Vestibular
Disorder With Tinnitus – How It
Happens
But when
this happens to the inner ear, the effects run almost to
the contrary. Under normal circumstances, the inner ear
has its own limited quota of fluid to keep the hearing
process healthy. But when it gets injured or becomes
infected, the inflammatory system floods the inner ear
with additional fluid in an effort to wash it out, too.
But within its limited space, the fluid finds no room to
expand and this is what creates pressure. However, the
pressure so created can hardly affect the bones or
cartilages save and except the soft tissues that consist
of the acoustic or the vestibular nerves, or perhaps
both at the same time. When it affects the acoustic
nerves, they start sending random impulses to the brain
and the brain in turn starts transmitting random noise
patterns to the ear that often takes the form of
ringing, buzzing, wheezing, crackling sound waves. The
effect of pressure on the vestibular nerves is almost
similar too. The unusual pressure on the nerve upsets
the balancing process that manifests in the form of
dizziness, vertigo, loss of balance,
etc.
From the foregoing paragraphs it is
evident that for people who tend to suffer from this
disorder (as in Meniere’s Disease
), maintaining constancy in the body’s
fluid/blood is rather essential. Even though several
relatable guidelines are proffered by the medical
profession that include even distribution of the food
and beverage intake, shunning food items that contain a
high level of amino acids which are present in smoked
meats, red wine, chicken liver and others like this, the
only real answer to the problem lies in taking a
holistic approach towards the disease in the following
fashion.
Holistic Guidelines To Cure Vestibular Disorder With
Tinnitus
- Cut down
the consumption of meat or meat-based food items like
ham, sausage, bacon, liver,
etc.
- Give up
alcohol or alcohol-based
beverages.
- Consume
fruits and vegetables in sufficient quantity. Also
good are organic food, food that are rich in
vitamins.
- Start yoga and Vedic exercises
including deep
breathing
- Give up
smoking altogether. This includes cigarette smoking or
pipe smoking, no matter how much nicotine they are
supposed to filter out.
- Do not
indulge in using medicated nasal sprays or ear
drops.
- Do not
go for antibiotics or ototoxic medications unless an
infection turns septic and that too only according the
guidance of known medical
practitioner.
- Lead
simple, uncomplicated life and arrange to have
adequate sleep.
- Discontinue
all medications save and except those that are
essential for any special type of disease condition
that requires all-time
consumption.
- Change
lifestyle, if necessary; remain healthy for the rest
of your life.
Treating
the body as a whole, holistic remedies first tries to
identify the root causes of tinnitus and only then
suggests the remedies. This is actually the much better
response and the result is also thus more effective.
Conventional medications on the other hand just treat
the symptoms of the disease without looking into the
root causes that are causing them. So, though the
symptoms might go away, but they make a quick comeback
because the root causes remain within the body.
