Meniere's Disease
Disease information
Meniere's Disease
Also well - known like
Vertigo
of
Méniére
or endolinfático Edema, it is
a
chronic
suffering that affects the internal ear and generally it appears in only one of them, although is people who get to have the symptoms in both. It affects mainly to people between the 40 and 60 years and their incidence he is more or less equal in men who in women.
Although the exact cause is not known, some specialists relate it to the
degeneration
of the vellosidades of the internal ear that are the ones in
charge
to
transmit
the sound waves and others relate to the noise or environmental
problems
.
What yes one knows or, it is that in all the cases it is related directly to the fluids in the channels of the internal ear and in spite of being very annoying and of not being
a
contagious
disease
, nor fatal by
itself
, by his effects it can arrive mainly to be
a
discapacitante
disease
since in some cases it causes
deafness
and by the symptoms it can be cause of accidents, if the episodes or
attacks
are prolonged and repetitive.
The
attack
appears when without reason some, increases the
liquid
in the zone for the labyrinth of the internal ear, which produces
a
greater pressure and an upheaval of the sense of the balance.
The labyrinth, of the ear is satisfied to two parts: the bony labyrinth that covers and protects to the other part that is the membranoso labyrinth that in its interior contains
liquid
endolinfático, necessary to hear and to maintain the balance or balance of the body.
Normally, when the head moves, the endolinfático
liquid
also does, doing that the
nervous
receivers of the membranoso labyrinth send signals to the brain on the movements of the body, so that the brain sends signals as well to the different organs to conserve the balance.
But
an increase in the endolinfático
liquid
can cause that the membranoso labyrinth dilates or swells, well - known condition as edema endolinfático and the characteristic symptoms when mesclar
itself
with the perilinfático
liquid
take place, another fluid of the internal ear that is between the membranoso labyrinth and the bony structure of the internal ear.
Although generally the auditory loss of the person tends to recover between
attacks
, usually gets worse with time and if these are very frequent, there is
deafness
danger.
IMPORTANT:
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charge
on its use.
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