What symptom is Meniere's disease?

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The etiology of Meniere's disease is still unclear. In 1938, Hallpike and Cairns reported that the main pathological change of this disease was hydrolabyrinthine, which has been confirmed by many scholars. However, it is difficult to explain how the endolymphatic hydrops is produced. What symptom is Meniere's disease? Let's talk about it

What symptom is Meniere's disease?

Sudden onset of rotational vertigo. Patients often feel that the objects around them rotate in a certain direction, and the symptoms can be alleviated when they close their eyes. Often accompanied with nausea, vomiting, pale, cold sweat, blood pressure drop and other autonomic nerve reflex symptoms. Any movement of the head can aggravate the vertigo. The patient's consciousness is always clear, individual patients even if suddenly fall, also keep awake.

The duration of vertigo is usually 10 minutes or several hours, and the longest is no more than 24 hours. After the onset of vertigo, it can turn into the intermission period, and the symptoms disappear. The intermission period varies from person to person, ranging from several days to several years. Vertigo can occur repeatedly. The duration and severity of each attack in the same patient are not the same, and different patients are not the same. The more the frequency of vertigo attack, the longer the duration of each attack and the shorter the interval.

In the early stage, sensorineural hearing loss with low frequency (125-500hz) decline is usually fluctuating, and hearing loss occurs in the attack period, but it can recover partially or completely in the intermission period. With the development of the disease, hearing loss can be gradually aggravated, and high frequency (2-8khz) hearing loss gradually appears. There is also a special phenomenon of hearing change in this disease: double hearing phenomenon, that is, the affected ear and healthy ear can hear the same pure tone into two different tones and timbres. Or listen with an ending.

matters needing attention

Low salt diet and light diet: the recommended daily intake of salt is less than 1.0g. Appropriate control of water intake. Avoid fatigue and irregular life. Keep a good mood, avoid depression and other bad emotions. Get enough sleep. Patients should be in bed during the attack period. Try to avoid light and strong sound stimulation. In the intermission period of disease, it is suggested to strengthen exercise and strengthen physique. Avoid smoking, wine, strong tea, coffee, etc. Avoid contact with allergens and control systemic allergic diseases. Active treatment of systemic diseases.