How are young children able to get Tinnitus?
an older woman i know has tinnitus (the ringing in your ears that never goes away) and she said that when she was a little girl about 6 or 7 she got it, she said she went to summer camp that was traumatizing for her and then went home to meet this new boyfriend of her mothers (her father died when she was a baby) she was mistreated badly and then just stops talking and goes to like ..the next day, she just says “then the next day after i came back from summer camp i woke up with tinnitus.. weird that it’s right after meeting him.” he was an absolutly terrible man and her mother wouldnt treat her well when she was young either. or even when she grew up. so i’m wondering what happened in that period of time that she isn’t really telling. whenever shes telling us stories she says “summer health camp when i was a kid was terrible, ..then my mom brought home this absolute terrible man it was traumatizing. (and then just seems like she skips a section and says) The next day i woke up with ringing in my ears.” just skips from one day to another, i think that something happened in that amount of time that was traumatizing that she woke up with tinnitus. it’s caused by loud noises in to the ear, and maybe there was a fight or something that night maybe physical abuse that she’s not telling or something. it is possible to get tinnitus other ways, but her story just seems…sketchy. the phsycology just doesn’t seem right. shes hiding something. what do you think could have happened? it just doesn’t seem right. she has many secrets.
thanks
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Tinnitus has multiple causes. As the previous guy said, the most common reason is due to neurological complications. Other causes can include ear infections or Menire’s disease. You are right the story does sound like it has some psychologically traumatizing elements to it. She could have a psychological disorder. Somatization, malingering, and factitious disorders are unlikely to continue for upwards of fifty years (just guessing on the age) without new symptoms manifesting. Chronic tinnitus is most likely neurological. Perhaps the new boyfriend hit her in the head and somehow damaged the nerves in her ear or temporal lobe. He could have also physically damaged the cochlea.
This is usually caused by loud noises, shock and ecilipsy.
Science_guy has covered the causes of tinnitus in adults. Actually, tinnitus is a rather rare complaint in young children. Perhaps it is because they may think of it as a normal phenomenon. Damage to the auditory (vestibulocochlear) nerve by way of infection or injury are the more common causes.
Before better anti-rheumatic drugs became available and before the association with Reye’s syndrome was understood, aspirin was commonly prescribed in high doses for children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Tinnitus was a common phenomenon from aspirin overdosage. We don’t see this much anymore.