Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-28 | Page 6 | Advice on Your Health

Advice on Your Your Health HeaU By Morris Fishbein Editor Journal American Medical Association Among the most frequent of complaints which disturb great numbers of people Is buzzing or ringing In the ears For In Instance Instance Instance In- In stance one woman has Just written written written writ writ- ten that she is disturbed because o of buzzing in the ears or head that is especially bad when she lies down There are many different causes that could be responsible for this condition Doctors have classified ringing in the ears as due to mechanical causes resultIng resulting resulting result result- ing In actual sound and to nervous ner ncr causes In which the phenomenon phenomenon phenomenon menon Is largely a mental reaction tion For instance a contraction of the muscles may produce movements movements movements move move- ments within the ear that can be heard by the p person himself One expert points out that everybody everybody every every- body has ringing In Jn the ears at atone atone atone one time or another but most people are not aware of It until it gets so loud as to Interfere with weaker sounds a a a All AU sorts of ot facts have been I ascertained as a result o of the study of various cases seen by experts It has been found that the sounds are of many varI varieties tIes Sometimes the sound Is like the the noise that is Js heard when a seashell seashell seashell sea- sea shell is held to the ear car In other cases It it is a ringing singing buzzing or whistling sound Anybody who swims and gets get water In the ear will have a ringIng ringing ring rIng- ing in the ears until the water Is removed If there Is 11 any Inflammation Inflammation mation in the ear the sounds are Increased because of the tenseness tenseness tenseness tense tense- ness of the tissue It Is also possible pos pos- sible ethIc to produce ringing In the ears by a smart blow on the ear Ringing In the ears cars is Intensified if jf much wax has accumulated In Inthe Inthe inthe the external ear canal The first step to be taken in determining the cause of any ringing of fhe he ears Is lJ to the external ear canal to eel It is clear The patient patients description tion of the noises and the df de degree tt of ot his reactions to them are l ways studied by the doctor I He will want to find ou cu U there is high blood pressure cause this obviously tends t to noises He will wUl test the hearing because use p pe por rK who are hard of hearing bij hi hi deafness for certain ertain tones Tn Tha may be ringing In the relationship to the or other tones Much can be accomplished accomplish If lowering the threshold perception of symptoms la m J person concerned by the I sedatives which aid sleep i inight night and by proper study of the patient W WIt It Is known that certain d particularly quinine affect the ears Sometimes P U ringing in the ears may b be 3 m elated with the taking of ot sOp JOti special remedy Th Tb Trip Ot voices and of old songs and special noises of machinery 4 probably chiefly c must be cared for with that Ju of view In mind