Ringing ear: treatment and prevention

■ What's the buzz in your ear
The tinnitus, or ringing sound is a sensation that can be located in one or both ears or in the middle of the skull of a person and can be intermittent or permanent, and low or high intensity. This symptom has the particularity of being totally subjective, so no one other than the patient can know exactly what degree of annoyance that it causes this sound. However, we can say that depends on the kind of buzz, there will be more or less discomfort in the listener.

■ Treatment
In severe tinnitus, its eradication depends on determining the root causes of the disorder. So, treating the ear infection or wax plug, for example, the buzz disappears. However, when the nerve problem is, the situation is much more difficult to reverse.

■ Prevention
Avoid the evils that result in the emergence of this disorder. This is accomplished by taking a good food, caring for the ears, and taking other measures to prevent these diseases. Finally, once you receive the tinnitus is important to get a quick diagnosis and effective to treat this table as soon as possible, especially when it affected the discrimination of sounds.