What is Meniere's syndrome?

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Meniere's disease is an idiopathic inner ear disease, once called Meniere's disease, which was diagnosed by the French physician prosper M é ni è It is the first time to propose. The main pathological change of the disease is hydrolabyrinthine, and its clinical manifestations are recurrent rotational vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus and ear tightness. This disease mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people aged from 30 to 50 years old, and is rare in children. There was no significant difference between male and female. The patients with binaural diseases accounted for 10% - 50%. What is Meniere's syndrome?

What is Meniere's syndrome?

1. 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. At present, the known causes include the following factors: various infectious factors (bacteria, viruses, etc.), injury (including mechanical injury or acoustic injury), otosclerosis, syphilis, genetic factors, allergy, tumor, leukemia and autoimmune diseases.

2. Most of them were sudden attack 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.

3. Early sensorineural hearing loss with low frequency (125-500hz) decline can be fluctuating, with hearing loss during attack and partial or complete recovery during intermission. 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.