What Is Meniere’s Disease
This video can be seen at the main Meniere’s Disease help site Menieres-Help.Com on the What is Meniere’s Disease and Do I have it? page.
We have put on here also so we can add the transcript below for people who are either hard of hearing or can not view the media for some reason. They can read the transcript below…
Dr. Steven D. Rauch – Massachusett’s Eye and Ear Infirmary – Boston .MA. explains just what Meniere’s Syndrome is in simple easy to understand terms. People are often anxious to get a real diagnosis and have explained what “Disease” it is they have. It is not a disease as such, and this is what we always try to tell people. By giving the body all the nutrition it needs (and rarely gets in today’s society) the body can often take care of itself and a as a result keep Meniere’s symptoms at bay. For more information on the nutrional supplements we use to stay Meniere’s symptom free visit the main website www.menieres-help.com
Dr Rauch’s analogy of an old car is perhaps not he best but you can underatnd what he is getting at. And certainly it is not something we “have to live with”
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
“Menieres Disease. In order for an ear to work normally, there are a number of regulatory systems. These systems manage the prodcution of the two different flavors of the inner ear fluid, they manage the chemical composition of those fluids, the recycling of those fluids, the nerve signals entering the ear, the nerve signals leaving the ear, circulation entering the ear, circulation leaving the ear, communication between the different parts of the inner ear.
All of those systems have to be working perfectly, for the ear to be working perfectly. If anything goes wrong with any of those systems, the ear may fail.
Since the inner ear houses organs of hearing and balance, the failure can affect hearing or balance, or both. If the pattern of failure affects both hearing and balance, and if the pattern of failure is intermittent, if it comes and goes, it’s called Meniere’s Syndrome.
We don’t know what’s wrong in there, it may be different in different patients, it’s all called Meniere’s Syndrome. And that name simply means that the ear is unreliable or unstable or fragile.
The best analogy is to an old car. When you bought the car it ran perfectly, some day it wont run at all, but as the car is aging there may be a period of time, days or weeks or months or even years where that car is not dependable. There are a million different things that could be wrong under the hood; what you have to live with is an undependable car, sometimes it will start, sometimes it wont, sometimes it runs sometimes it stalls. If you have Meniere’s Syndrome, you have an ear like that.”
VIDEO EXPLAINING THE BALANCE ORGANISM IN THE EAR
