Are vitamins really helpful in fighting tinnitus? Read this article to find out the various contributing factors that cause tinnitus and the various vitamins that helpful in this condition

Vitamins to help Tinnitus is a good idea but help would prove ideal for those who suffer from vitamin deficiency. The help may turn to hindrance when vitamin is not needed by the patient. There is already much hullabaloo about the actual necessity of vitamins for average persons and so there is no point in complicating the issue further. Vitamin therapy, if recommended, should preferably be more oriented towards helping the contributory factors of tinnitus than giving emphasis on overall help. As for regulating the dosage, one should be especially alert about vitamins that can not be stored in the body (like B vitamins) and therefore has to be replenished as and when required.

Tinnitus contributing factors

 Sinus congestion  Heightened stress level  Nerve damage (Cochlear problem)  Poor blood circulation in the head and neck region

Group of vitamins believed to be helpful to tinnitus patients: B-group

 Vitamin B-1 (Thiamine) supplements prove their worth in more than one way with tinnitus patients.  Vitamin B-3 (Niacin, Niacinamide, Nicotinic Acid) is equally good if not better since it is believed to support blood circulation in the upper torso, especially in the head and neck region. Another significant aspect of this valued vitamin concerns its beneficial effect on the central nervous system. No doubt it helps restore the damage done to the cochlear nerve ends that are typically associated with tinnitus. Vitamin B-3 also helps in breaking down of carbohydrates, proteins and fat, thus help providing appropriate nutrition to patients suffering from tinnitus and related complications. The trail dosage of B-3 may be started at 50 mg per day, twice a day and can be enhanced at the same rate every week till it reaches 500 mg. If no significant result is noticed at that stage, it may be withdrawn altogether with the presumption that B-3 des not suit the patient.  Vitamin B-6 (Pyridoxine) can be found quite helpful for tinnitus sufferers since this vitamin is utilized in preparation of Serotonin, a brain neurotransmitter that has extensive control over sensitivity of pain, mood change, appetite and maintenance of equilibrium. No doubt it will help encountering vertigo, giddiness, depression, etc that are everyday companions of tinnitus patients.  Since vitamin B-12 (Cobalamin, Cynocobalamin) deficiency is mostly observed in patients suffering from chronic tinnitus, it may be rightly assumed that this vitamin, if administered in adequate dosage would solve their problem. When the presumption was put to practice, it proved to be a medical miracle. A group of tinnitus patients between the age group of 60 and 70 who were treated with vitamin B-12 demonstrated recovery within record time. The only drawback so far discovered with B-12 relates to low absorption rate in the body. However, this may be overcome by hiking the dosage or better still by pushing it through a needle (intra-muscular injection).  Folic Acid which is also a noteworthy member of the benevolent B-12 group of vitamins is known to have the requisite power to stabilize the middle ear nerve endings as it can exert adequate influence on the central nervous system. As soon as the nerves are stabilized, they would stop remitting haphazard impulses to the brain. And once the brain receptors become free of random impulses, transmission of agonizing noise waves to the ear would be automatically stopped.  Zinc in a vitamin form often comes to the aid of tinnitus patients who suffer from this deficiency.

Over and above the vitamins specified here, tinnitus patients need vitamins that work as antioxidants to ward off the harm caused by the free radicals that are produced routinely in the body as by-products. Antioxidants are good because they are able to stop the harm that happens from free radicals that gets made in the body when the food is being consumed and turned into energy that the body needs.

Studies, however, have shown that some these free radicals are capable of contributing to several disease conditions that include hearing problems that cover tinnitus as well as many other painful disorders and diseases. Nevertheless, vitamin C, also known as Ascorbic Acid has the power to protect the body from the rampages of the free radicals. Since this great friendly vitamin is fully water soluble, the question of overdose never arises - any extra dose administered inadvertently will be simply washed out through the urine.

Also helpful to tinnitus patients is yet another vitamin known as vitamin E which is fairly potent in providing protection against free radicals and helping the nervous system. It is especially helpful to the cochlear nerve endings of the inner ear. Out of the two major forms of vitamin E forms, only one can be absorbed in the body which is known as alpha-tocopherol isomer. Tocotrienols on the other hand may not be that efficient.

Why Vitamins to Help Tinnitus may not be just enough

Even though the aim of this treatise is not to undermine the effect of vitamins on tinnitus patients but the fact remains that the vitamins can only help reduce some of the tinnitus symptoms but can never cure the disease condition. And if the ailment persists, the symptoms will come and go, depending upon the strength of the vitamins and their repetitive application. But this is no answer to the basic problem which can only be solved if the disorder is thoroughly eliminated from the body with the help of holistic method of treatment.

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