2. Causes severe dizziness (vertigo)
Ringing of the ear (tinnitus)
Hearing loss or eventual deafness
Feeling of fullness or congestion of the ear
What Does it Do?
3. 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
Why Me?
4. 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
Why Does My Ear Not Like Me?
5. Does not target a specific age race or sex
Usually only effects one ear
This Disease is Nonspecific
6. You go to your local otolaryngologist (ear
nose and throat Doctor) and they
diagnose the symptoms:
Two or more episodes of vertigo lasting at
least 20 minutes each
Tinnitus
Temporary hearing loss
A feeling of fullness in the ear
Diagnosis
7. Doctors cannot cure the disease but they
fight symptoms by:
Prescribing drugs to relieve dizziness and
shorten attacks
Recommend cutting salt from the diet and
prescribe water pills to lower the fluid volume
and pressure in the ear
Injections of antibiotic gentamicin into the
inner ear to reduce dizziness-may cause
deafness (sorry )
How Do Doctors Fix This?
8. Surgery to cut vestibular nerve
Alternative medicine is also used tai-chi,
acupuncture etc.
Other Treatments
9. 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
Research
10. 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.a
spx
Schwartz, S. (2011, August 31). Pubmed health: Meniere.
Retrieved from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001721/
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