The most frequent causes:
- Acute or chronic otitis media
- Sensorineural deafness (a progressive, painless phenomenon that usually occurs around the age of 60)
- Acoustic Neuroma (benign tumor of the auditory nerve)
- Meniere’s Syndrome
- Arteriosclerosis
- Paget’s disease (a bone disease causing expansion of the skull bones and pressure on the auditory nerve)
- Otosclerosis (a disease that reduces the mobility of one of the small bones used to transmit sound vibrations to the inner ear)
- Ear cancer
Possible additional causes:
- Stress
- Food allergies
- Side effects of certain drugs
- Exposure to intense noise
- Head and neck joint problems
- Vascular malformations
- Abnormal contractions of the muscles of the ENT sphere
- Structural defects of the inner ear
