What are the symptoms of Meniere disease? What severity of the disease exist? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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What are the symptoms of Meniere disease
Menieret's disease - under this title implies
Certain symptom complex, described in 1861 by French
Medico Prosper Meniel. Disease manifestations are described by Merper on
so much exhaustingly that for the subsequent century only a few
Invulusized information relating to the characteristics of the hearing lesion and
vestibular functions.
Meniery's disease Characterized by classic triad:
Attacks of systemic labyrinth dizziness, accompanied by nausea and vomiting
- decline of hearing for one ear
- noise in the same ear.
Dizziness attacks arise among full health,
accompanied by nauseous, sometimes vomiting. As a rule, at the time of the attack
There is noise in the patient ear, there is a feeling of stations and
Stunning. An objective sign of the attack is a spontaneous nastagm,
which disappears shortly after the end of the attack. At the moment of attack
equilibrium is broken, often significantly, patients try to accept
horizontal position, more often with eyes closed. Any attempt
Change the posture leads to a deterioration in the state and strengthen nausea and
vomiting.
Attacks arise at any time of the day, but more often at night or in the morning.
Provoking moment can be physical or mental
overvoltage. Sometimes patients feel the approach of the attack for
a few hours or even days. His harbingers is often
Strengthening noise in the ear or easy balance of equilibrium. Attacks can
be repeated with different frequency.
Most patients clearly trace the phase of the disease:
Alternation of frequent attacks with well-being periods. In phase
exacerbations for several weeks attacks can be repeated
repeatedly; In the intervals between them vestibular disorders
do not completely disappear, but only subscribe. During the remission,
continued for several months and even years, condition
Improves and patients become able-bodied. However, with the flow
time attacks are harder and even during remission
Moving weakness, light equilibrium disorders, feeling
Gravity in the head.
Three distinguish Severity of Meniere Diseases:
- severe - attacks are usually daily or weekly,
Duration of more than 5 hours flowing with the whole complex
disorders, disability is lost
- Average - attacks are also frequent, duration up to 5
hours, disability after the attack is lost at how long,
Permanent hearing loss
- Easy - attacks can be frequent and short, in
in some cases with long, in several months or years,
breaks; disability between attacks is not reduced.
