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

2.  Primarily symptoms: severe dizziness
(vertigo)
What Does it Do?

3.  Ringing of the ear (tinnitus)
 Hearing loss or eventual deafness
 Feeling of fullness or congestion of the ear
Other Problems

4.  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?

5.  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?

6.  THANKS MAW AND PAW!

7.  Does not target a specific age race or sex
 Usually only effects one ear
This Disease is Nonspecific

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

9.  Two or more episodes of vertigo lasting at
least 20 minutes each
 Tinnitus
 Temporary hearing loss
 A feeling of fullness in the ear

10.  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
How Do Doctors Fix This?

11.  Prescribing drugs to relieve dizziness and
shorten attacks
 Injections of antibiotic gentamicin into the
inner ear to reduce dizziness-may cause
deafness (sorry )
Continued…

12.  Surgery to cut vestibular nerve
 Alternative medicine is also used tai-chi,
acupuncture etc.
Other Treatments

13.  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

14.  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
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 National institute on deafness and other
communication disorders. (2010, September 13).
Retrieved from
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/balance/pages/meni
ere.aspx
 Schwartz, S. (2011, August 31). Pubmed health:
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