What Food Triggers Your Tinnitus?

There are certain foods and conditions that can trigger your tinnitus and make your symptoms worse. If you can identify and list things that trigger your tinnitus, you'll be able to better manage the condition.

Foods are the easiest to target.

For example, let's say caffeine tends to make the sounds in your head really loud, you may want to stay away from coffee, caffeinated tea and soda with caffeine. If your morning coffee is too hard to give up, try to cut back on other caffeine-rich foods like dark chocolate or switch to non-caffeinated herbal tea or caffeine-free white chocolate.

You may be consuming caffeine without even knowing it. Lots of additives have caffeine, so if you see ginseng or taurine in the list of ingredients, that drink or food item does have caffeine. It may not be much, but it can add up and potentially make a difference to your tinnitus.

Sugar is another culprit in the food arena. Many people see an increase in their tinnitus symptoms when they eat foods with refined sugars. If you tend to consume lots of sweets, try cutting back to see if the noises in your head subside. 

And the same thing goes for salt -- all of us probably eat way to much salt, and it's pretty easy to cut back. Start by not adding salt to everything you eat, then slowly reduce the amount of highly salted food you eat.

Keeping a food diary can be very helpful. Note what you eat and drink and when, then note your level of tinnitus. When you see a pattern develop (say, your morning coffee is no problem, but a bag of chips sets off loud noises), you'll know what to do.

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