Treatment for Cicada Tinnitus

Tinnitus that sounds like cicadas usually requires no special treatment if it is related to a noisy environment. If it is caused by Meniere’s disease, sensorineural deafness and other diseases, medication and surgery are needed to treat the cause. 1. Noisy environment: If you stay in a noisy environment or a high decibel environment for a long time, such as large-scale entertainment activities, it is easy to affect the auditory nerve, and tinnitus like cicadas will occur. Generally, you can leave the environment in time and take a rest for a period of time to alleviate the problem on your own without any special treatment. 2. Meniere’s disease: common symptoms include tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo and so on. Patients need to comply with medical advice to apply diazepam, phenylephrine and other vestibular nerve inhibitors, guillotine, flunarizine and other vasodilators, as well as betahistine, nimodipine and other calcium antagonists. For patients with severe symptoms of tinnitus and 6 months of non-surgical treatment is ineffective, surgical treatments such as labyrinthectomy and vestibular neurectomy should be considered. 3. Sensorineural deafness: typical symptoms include cicadas tinnitus and deafness. Patients need to use glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone and prednisone as prescribed by the doctor, as well as drugs to improve microcirculation in the inner ear such as ginkgo biloba extract, and drugs to nourish the nerves such as methylcobalamin and vitamin B12. Hearing aids can be worn to improve hearing and tinnitus, and cochlear implantation should be considered in severe cases. In addition, masking therapy, biofeedback therapy, electrical stimulation therapy, tinnitus exercise therapy and other comprehensive treatment can also be applied. To summarize, tinnitus patients with cicatricial tinnitus need to go to the hospital in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the disease, and cooperate with the doctor to treat the original disease.