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Meniere’s Disease Silence is golden…unless it’s forever! Table 4

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Meniere’s DiseaseSilence is golden…unless it’s forever!

Table 4

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What Does it Do?

Primarily symptoms: severe dizziness (vertigo)

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Other Problems

Ringing of the ear (tinnitus)

Hearing loss or eventual deafness

Feeling of fullness or congestion of the ear

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Why Me?

There is a buildup of fluid in the labyrinth of the inner ear

The balance is in the semicircular canals which are affected

Normal balance of endomolph fluid is thrown off

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Why Does My Ear Not Like Me?

NOBODY KNOWS!!!

Some researchers believe it is caused by a restriction of blood vessels (also associated with migraines)

Your parents fault (bad genes)

- causes abnormalities in volume and regulation of endomolph fluid

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THANKS MAW AND PAW!

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This Disease is Nonspecific

Does not target a specific age race or sex

Usually only effects one ear

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Diagnosis

You go to your local otolaryngologist (ear nose and throat Doctor) and they diagnose the symptoms:

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Two or more episodes of vertigo lasting at least 20 minutes each

Tinnitus

Temporary hearing loss

A feeling of fullness in the ear

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How Do Doctors Fix This?

Doctors cannot cure the disease but they fight symptoms by:

Recommend cutting salt from the diet and prescribe water pills to lower the fluid volume and pressure in the ear

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Continued…

Prescribing drugs to relieve dizziness and shorten attacks

Injections of antibiotic gentamicin into the inner ear to reduce dizziness-may cause deafness (sorry )

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Other Treatments

Surgery to cut vestibular nerve

Alternative medicine is also used tai-chi, acupuncture etc.

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Research

Scientists are working to develop a microfluid pump to deliver vertigo relieving drugs to the inner ear

Doctors seek to study the normal ear to contrast with a Meniere ear in the amount of fluid in the endolymph

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Sources

Harms, R. (2010, June 8). Mayo clinic: Meniere. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/menieres-disease/DS00535

Ménière's disease. (2012, Febr 03). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ménière's_disease

Ménière's disease. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/ménière's disease

National institute on deafness and other communication disorders. (2010, September 13). Retrieved from http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/balance/pages/meniere.aspx

Schwartz, S. (2011, August 31). Pubmed health: Meniere. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001721/