What are the symptoms of Meniere's disease?

Symptoms and manifestations of Meniere's disease

Meniere's disease is an idiopathic inner ear disease, which was once called Meniere's disease.

clinical picture

Typical Meniere's disease has the following four symptoms: dizziness, deafness, tinnitus and stuffy ears.

1. Dizziness

Most of them are sudden onset of rotational vertigo. Patients often feel that the surrounding objects revolve around them in a certain direction, and the symptoms can be alleviated by closing their eyes. Often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, pallor, cold sweat, blood pressure drop and other autonomic reflex symptoms. Any movement of the head will aggravate dizziness. The patient's consciousness is always awake, and individual patients remain awake even if they suddenly fall down.

The duration of vertigo is mostly 10 minutes or several hours, and the longest is no more than 24 hours. After the onset of vertigo, it can be transferred to intermittent period and the symptoms disappear. The length of the intermission varies from person to person, ranging from a few days to several years. Vertigo can recur, and the duration and severity of each episode of the same patient are different, and different patients are also different. Moreover, the more vertigo attacks, the longer the duration of each attack and the shorter the interval.

become deaf

In the early stage, most of them are low-frequency (125 ~ 500 Hz) sensorineural deafness, which can be fluctuating. Hearing loss occurs during the attack and partially or completely recovers during the intermission. With the development of the disease, hearing loss can be gradually aggravated, and high-frequency (2 ~ 8 kHz) hearing loss gradually appears. This disease can also appear a special hearing change phenomenon: hearing loss phenomenon, that is, the affected ear and the healthy ear can hear the same pure tone into two different tones and timbres. Or hear the sound of a tail.

tinnitus

Tinnitus may be the earliest symptom of this disease. In the early stage, it can be manifested as a continuous low-key blowing sound, and in the later stage, there may be noises of various tones, such as ringing, cicada singing and wind blowing. Tinnitus may suddenly appear or worsen before vertigo attacks. Tinnitus disappears during intermission, but patients with chronic illness can persist. A few patients may have bilateral tinnitus.

4. The ears are stuffy

During vertigo attacks, the affected ears may feel full, oppressed and heavy. A few patients complained of slight earache and itching.

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