Meniere's disease

Meniere's disease (also known as the inner ear dizziness or vertigo) is an inner ear disease. The main symptoms are sudden vertigo, tinnitus, deafness or eye tremor. Vertigo has obvious attack and intermittent periods. During the attack period, symptoms come suddenly. When you open your eyes, you feel the house or the surrounding objects are rotating. When you close your eyes, you feel your body is rotating. Patient may suddenly fall to ground when violent vertigo comes. Patients are usually conscious. Treatment of Meniere's disease includes surgery and drug therapy. Drugs include sedatives, vascular circulation accelerator and nerve function activator. Surgery include: endolymphatic sac decompression, nerve balancing, or vagus nerve truncation.


How is Meniere's disease treated in practice?