Some people think that red blood cells hardly squeeze through the lumen of blood vessels and clatter against the walls of arteries like empty cans. And from this ringing in the ears. People believe that if the red blood cells are softened, there will be less tinnitus.
It appears to be about tinnitus. It is ringing or tinnitus. There really could be a blood problem.
Arteries
If there are narrow or crooked spots in the arteries inside our head, then the blood flow will swirl and such turbulence can be heard. This noise will pulsate in time with the heartbeat.
Veins
And there is also a venous hum. This is also a well-known phenomenon. When blood returns from our head towards our heart, the veins can overflow and vibrate like water pipes.
Usually, vascular noise doesn't hurt too much, but some people get really sick of it. Then vascular surgeons come to the rescue. They correct crooked or narrowed spots in the blood vessels and the noise is reduced.
And what about erythrocytes?
Nothing. You can't make them more musical. It is not the erythrocyte wall that rattles, but all the blood due to turbulence. We cannot hear the scraping sounds of individual red blood cells squeezing through the bottlenecks in our head. There is a different physics.
Thick blood
In fact, the quality of the blood can sometimes affect tinnitus. This happens, for example, with leukemia. This is what blood cancer is called.
With leukemia, there are so many leukocytes in the blood that the blood turns into jelly.
People with leukemia have tinnitus, but this is not due to the murmur of thick blood, but to a violation of the blood supply to the inner ear.
Thick blood is less likely to squeeze through small blood vessels. The inner ear suffers from this, hurts and does not work properly. Due to the malfunctioning of hearing, people hear a ringing, which in fact is not.
Is there anything in your head?
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