Pulsatile Tinnitus: Discussing the Sounds of Tinnitus?

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asked Nov 7, 2019 in Electron Microscopy by alisaprincy (10,120 points)

In the absence of any official Hearing X3 Review action by education leaders, some local tinnitus self-help groups have taken the initiative and supplied schools with teaching packs to explain what tinnitus is and how young people can to some extent protect themselves. One difficulty is convincing youngsters that tinnitus, so closely associated with deafness in some minds, is not confined to pensioners with hearing-aids. While pop music boasts of creating aptly-named walls of sound, the safety warning is that it is dangerous to hit one's head against a wall, real or sonic.

As with many other medical conditions, both nurture and nature are said to be the cause of tinnitus. If toddlers can tell their parents about it, does the cause go back further to the process of birth or during the baby's time in the womb? Many forms of deafness are known to be hereditary. As the onset of hearing loss and tinnitus can be experienced simultaneously at any age, can tinnitus be inherited? There are few statistics to support the belief that it can be. Moreover, as the scientific cause of head sounds itself remains seemingly light years from discovery, a convincing case cannot yet be made out that heredity has anything to do with it. It could be that a weakness in the intricate auditory system, which is considered less remarkable when it occurs in old age, is simply the premature fate of a child. The wide and still vague label of 'nature' can therefore be attached to infant cases, to await further explanation.

And does it start in the womb? For years people with good hearing and an even better memory have told how they can recall the steady sound-sensations of their own heart beats before birth. This cannot easily be dismissed as pure imagination, as a baby in the first minutes of life has a brain able to function on a basic level. It has been proved that babies are responsive to sounds before birth.

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