Treatment of Meniere's disease: timely treatment can reduce the harm

Meniere's syndrome is an inner ear disease. The most typical manifestations are dizziness, deafness, and tinnitus. If the disease occurs, you should pay attention to rest, do not be impatient, eat a low-salt diet, quit smoking and drinking, take medication in time, and severe cases require surgical treatment.

1. General treatment

When an attack occurs, you should lie still, avoid being impatient, eat a light and low-salt diet, limit your water intake, and avoid smoking, drinking, and tea. During the interval period, patients should be encouraged to exercise, strengthen their physical fitness, and pay attention to proper balance between work and rest.

2. Drug treatment

(1) Keep quiet and lie still

(2) Symptomatic treatment, use of sedatives such as diazepam, oryzanol, combined with phenergan.

(3) Vasodilators may be used as appropriate: sibilan, anisodamine hydrobromide (654-2)

(4) Use of diuretics: hydrochlorothiazide, alanine diazepam.

(5) Local drug blockade: 10 ml of 10% procaine for stellate nerve blockade.

3. Surgical treatment

Not all patients with Meniere's syndrome can undergo surgery. Surgery is only suitable for those who have lost their ability to work due to ineffective drug treatment. Patients with unilateral disease. According to statistics, only 5% of patients with Meniere's syndrome are within the scope of surgical treatment. We also have to subtract patients with diseases of the heart, brain, liver, lungs, spleen, and kidneys, so the number of patients who can undergo surgery is very small. Surgery is summarized as

: There are three types: destructive, semi-destructive and conservative.