Cure Your Tinnitus – Is Alcohol Good Or Bad For Yours?
Some people say alcohol is good for people with tinnitus. Others say it is bad. They’re both right. If you would like to understand how this can be, just keep reading.
You may have heard that drinking a little alcohol reduces tinnitus symptoms in some people. Perhaps you were under the impression that drinking a little alcohol could worsen your tinnitus symptoms. While it may be counterintuitive, whichever you have heard, it is correct.
A 1995 study at the Welsh Hearing Institute found that 22% of the participants reported increased tinnitus from drinking alcohol, while 16% reported reduced symptoms. The majority (62%) reported no change in their ringing ears from moderate drinking. What does this tell us?
This tells us firstly that consuming a small amount of alcohol is unlikely to affect your tinnitus. But if it does, the effect could be good or bad. While I haven’t seen any definitive research into why the results came out this way, I can speculate based on what I know about tinnitus in general. For people who benefit from alcohol, it is likely that stress is one of the causes of their tinnitus. That’s because a small amount of alcohol can reduce your stress levels. And reduced stress can reduce tinnitus symptoms.
We don’t have a good theory for why moderate alcohol consumption would increase tinnitus. But at least on possibility does present itself. It is the fact that alcohol actually acts as a stimulant for some people. Stimulants frequently increase tinnitus symptoms.
Heavy drinking, on the other hand, will almost surely increase tinnitus. The dehydration, headaches, and overall physiological damage caused by heavy drinking are almost guaranteed to worsen tinnitus.
Will Drinking a Bit of Alcohol Hurt or Help Your Ringing Ears?
It isn’t that hard to find out whether alcohol affects your tinnitus and if so whether the effect is good or bad. But before we go into that, I have to be absolutely clear on this: In no way am I suggesting that you start drinking as a way to treat your tinnitus! The goal here is simply to help you discover whether or not the way you drink now in any way contributes to your hearing issues.
To find out how your current drinking patterns affect your tinnitus, you simply need to take some notes. The next several times you have alcoholic beverages, be alert to how intense your tinnitus is after you drink. Make some notes of how it seems.
Next, if you’re feeling up to it, stop drinking altogether for a couple of weeks and make note of your general level of tinnitus. These two simple experiments should tell you all you need to know about how alcohol affects your tinnitus.
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