List Of Drugs That Cause Tinnitus
Mike Walden
September 13, 2009
A good number of medicines and their medications cause tinnitus. It is actually the side effects of those medicines, which are responsible for the cause of that problem. It is true that the tinnitus that is caused by the drugs either have direct or indirect impact, which proves very high in comparison to the help they provide to reduce the pain from the symptoms. The discoveries of the tinnitus symptoms, which are caused by drugs, are merely accidental in some cases. Similarly, the discovery of antibiotics by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 was also an accident.
In 1944, the discovery of Streptomycin took place and it was extensively used to deal with tuberculosis, which was a deadly disease of that time. And the patients came with a peculiar kind of drug reaction. They complained about a typical buzzing tone in their ears, feeling of dizziness and with a feeling of instability that accompanied it. The doctors investigated the symptoms without neglecting them. With related studies, it showed up that the use of Streptomycin resulted in some cochlear and vestibular disturbance, which was irreversible. To say it simply, they used to suffer from hearing in various ways and problems related with vertigo. A new batch of drugs called ototoxic drugs were listed for drugs which caused tinnitus.
List Of Drugs That Cause Tinnitus – There Are Other Culprits Too
Soon it became clear that Streptomycin was not a sole offender. Ototoxicity had a link to host other medications that contained majority of aminoglycoside clan of antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs which are platinum-based, loop diuretics, quinine and salicylates. These are all common drugs in household purpose that are usually used for normal fevers/ headache etc. These helpful drugs contain some toxicity, which is sufficient to give negative impact on human cochleo/vestibular structure. This results in the cause of killing noise in the ear and that leads to partial loss in audibility in many people.
It will be a mammoth task to do a list of drugs, which are responsible for tinnitus. Hence it has been segregated in groups with proper subheadings to follow.
Antibiotics including Vancomycin, Erithromycin and Aminoglycosides. They belong to the medications in the mycin´ group such as gantamycine, kanamycin, streptomycin, neomycin and new erythromycin derivatives that comprise of Biazine, Zithromax, E-mycin, EES, Ilosone, Eryc, Pediazol and a few more intervenes dosages in 2/4 grams administered over a day. It needs to be mentioned here that low strength oral doses come with less toxicity. A dose of Vancomycin (Vincocin) administered with aminoglycosides or without it may be ototoxic in nature.
Salicylates that consist of aspirin or drugs related with aspirin, are generally called NSAIDs. These include Advil, Anaprox, Aleve, Clinoril, Poradol, Indocin, Lodine, Naprosyn, Nuprine and some more. Toxicity level increases with the taking of 6/8 pills daily. But it is fortunate that the symptoms can be checked the moment the medicine is stopped.
Chemotherapy agents include Nitrogen Mustard, Cisplatin and Vincristin administered during cancer treatment. By keeping a continuous watch at regular intervals on the toxic level of the blood and serial audiograms, it is possible to control ototoxicity. But the level of ototoxicity usually shoots up above tolerance with taking of ototoxic medications like aminoglycosides or loop diuretics such as Bumex or Lasix.
Loop diuretics include Bumex, Endecrin and Lasix. These are used while curing critical renal failure or clinically perilous hypertension. These medicines are not so ototoxic when used orally. This is the only positive side of using this medication. On the basis on this advantage doctors prescribe oral doses of these medicines to the patients, who have got a critical failure of kidney.
Anti-malarial drugs include Quinine in numerous derivatives and forms. The ototoxicity which is present in Quinine is reversed with the withdrawal of medication.
A muscle relaxant drug that deals with night cramps also has got an ototoxic nature. Under this category drugs like Q-Vel, Legatrin, Atabrine and Aralen belong to this.
Continuous research is still on to find the levels of ototoxicity in the drugs, which are newly found. And these drugs are most commonly used in day-to-day life for curing the incurables.
The Best Tinnitus Treatment
The conventional medication has some negative impacts. In one hand they try to solve one problem but on the other hand some other problems come up. In most of the cases, side effects are obvious and tinnitus is one of them. It is a bitter truth that conventional form of medication cannot cure tinnitus because they only deals with the symptoms and not with the root cause of the disease. This is the reason why holistic approach is necessary. The holistic approach treats the body as a whole and finds the root cause of the tinnitus and its triggers. After identifying the root cause and its triggers, they suggest proper remedies, which work effectively to cure the disease. The symptom goes away automatically when the root causes gats taken care of. For this reason holistic remedies are so well effective to cure tinnitus.
This article is based on the book "Tinnitus Miracle – A Unique Three Step Holistic System for Quieting the Noise in Your Head" by Thomas Coleman. Thomas is a former chronic tinnitus sufferer who has written dozens of holistic health and tinnitus related articles and has been featured in ezines and print magazines, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide.
To Learn More About Thomas Coleman´s Unique 3-Step Holistic Tinnitus Cure System Visit: Tinnitus Miracle.
For further information visit: List of Drugs that Cause Tinnitus
In 1944, the discovery of Streptomycin took place and it was extensively used to deal with tuberculosis, which was a deadly disease of that time. And the patients came with a peculiar kind of drug reaction. They complained about a typical buzzing tone in their ears, feeling of dizziness and with a feeling of instability that accompanied it. The doctors investigated the symptoms without neglecting them. With related studies, it showed up that the use of Streptomycin resulted in some cochlear and vestibular disturbance, which was irreversible. To say it simply, they used to suffer from hearing in various ways and problems related with vertigo. A new batch of drugs called ototoxic drugs were listed for drugs which caused tinnitus.
List Of Drugs That Cause Tinnitus – There Are Other Culprits Too
Soon it became clear that Streptomycin was not a sole offender. Ototoxicity had a link to host other medications that contained majority of aminoglycoside clan of antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs which are platinum-based, loop diuretics, quinine and salicylates. These are all common drugs in household purpose that are usually used for normal fevers/ headache etc. These helpful drugs contain some toxicity, which is sufficient to give negative impact on human cochleo/vestibular structure. This results in the cause of killing noise in the ear and that leads to partial loss in audibility in many people.
It will be a mammoth task to do a list of drugs, which are responsible for tinnitus. Hence it has been segregated in groups with proper subheadings to follow.
Antibiotics including Vancomycin, Erithromycin and Aminoglycosides. They belong to the medications in the mycin´ group such as gantamycine, kanamycin, streptomycin, neomycin and new erythromycin derivatives that comprise of Biazine, Zithromax, E-mycin, EES, Ilosone, Eryc, Pediazol and a few more intervenes dosages in 2/4 grams administered over a day. It needs to be mentioned here that low strength oral doses come with less toxicity. A dose of Vancomycin (Vincocin) administered with aminoglycosides or without it may be ototoxic in nature.
Salicylates that consist of aspirin or drugs related with aspirin, are generally called NSAIDs. These include Advil, Anaprox, Aleve, Clinoril, Poradol, Indocin, Lodine, Naprosyn, Nuprine and some more. Toxicity level increases with the taking of 6/8 pills daily. But it is fortunate that the symptoms can be checked the moment the medicine is stopped.
Chemotherapy agents include Nitrogen Mustard, Cisplatin and Vincristin administered during cancer treatment. By keeping a continuous watch at regular intervals on the toxic level of the blood and serial audiograms, it is possible to control ototoxicity. But the level of ototoxicity usually shoots up above tolerance with taking of ototoxic medications like aminoglycosides or loop diuretics such as Bumex or Lasix.
Loop diuretics include Bumex, Endecrin and Lasix. These are used while curing critical renal failure or clinically perilous hypertension. These medicines are not so ototoxic when used orally. This is the only positive side of using this medication. On the basis on this advantage doctors prescribe oral doses of these medicines to the patients, who have got a critical failure of kidney.
Anti-malarial drugs include Quinine in numerous derivatives and forms. The ototoxicity which is present in Quinine is reversed with the withdrawal of medication.
A muscle relaxant drug that deals with night cramps also has got an ototoxic nature. Under this category drugs like Q-Vel, Legatrin, Atabrine and Aralen belong to this.
Continuous research is still on to find the levels of ototoxicity in the drugs, which are newly found. And these drugs are most commonly used in day-to-day life for curing the incurables.
The Best Tinnitus Treatment
The conventional medication has some negative impacts. In one hand they try to solve one problem but on the other hand some other problems come up. In most of the cases, side effects are obvious and tinnitus is one of them. It is a bitter truth that conventional form of medication cannot cure tinnitus because they only deals with the symptoms and not with the root cause of the disease. This is the reason why holistic approach is necessary. The holistic approach treats the body as a whole and finds the root cause of the tinnitus and its triggers. After identifying the root cause and its triggers, they suggest proper remedies, which work effectively to cure the disease. The symptom goes away automatically when the root causes gats taken care of. For this reason holistic remedies are so well effective to cure tinnitus.
This article is based on the book "Tinnitus Miracle – A Unique Three Step Holistic System for Quieting the Noise in Your Head" by Thomas Coleman. Thomas is a former chronic tinnitus sufferer who has written dozens of holistic health and tinnitus related articles and has been featured in ezines and print magazines, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide.
To Learn More About Thomas Coleman´s Unique 3-Step Holistic Tinnitus Cure System Visit: Tinnitus Miracle.
For further information visit: List of Drugs that Cause Tinnitus
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