Dr. Konstantina Stankovic

What is known is that for some people with tinnitus in the setting of migraine,

magnesium supplementation really helps.

As you know, magnesium can do magic for people with migraines, along with healthy diets and coenzyme Q10 and B-complex or at least B12 vitamins.

So that is the standard part of armamentarium to treat migraines.

And some people with migraines have tinnitus during their exacerbations, as well as auditory fluctuations, and some people get really dizzy.

And this is where thorough evaluation is really key, because someone may assume that the problem is in the inner ear, but the problem is really in the brain.

And then going back to pharmacology.

foods that are good for you, that are better than a supplement, given this unregulated nature of the supplements.

They include seeds and nuts and fish, especially salmon, and then green leafy veggies like spinach.

They are all rich in magnesium, but it's all common sense.

Basically, what's good for your body is good for your hearing.

That really hasn't been studied for any type of tinnitus.

It's been studied in the context of migraine, and there it really helps.

And tinnitus, it's an umbrella term.

Just like sensorineural hearing loss, it's an umbrella term.

It encompasses lots of different conditions.

When it comes to hearing loss, there are already more than 200 genes identified to cause hearing loss, and that's the genetic component.

But then there are environmental components to hearing loss, which includes noise trauma that we talked about, aging, infection.

Lots of different infectious diseases can cause hearing loss.

Not only viruses from the herpes family, like herpes simplex virus, which causes a cold sore, or cytomegalovirus, which is the most common congenital infectious cause of hearing loss.