Meniere’s disease, known as Meniere’s disease, can cause lifelong deafness in some patients.
The cause of Meniere’s disease is still unclear, but it is mainly due to the accumulation of water in the labyrinth of the inner ear membrane, resulting in a series of clinical symptoms. These include episodes of vertigo, tinnitus and hearing loss. The disease is most common in middle-aged and young people under the age of 50, and can also occur in children.
Early on, it is mostly a low-frequency descending sensorineural deafness, which can be fluctuating, with hearing loss during the episodic period and partial or complete recovery during the intermittent period. With the development of the disease, the hearing loss can be gradually aggravated, and high-frequency hearing loss gradually occurs, and in individual cases, hearing can be almost completely lost after an attack.
Meniere’s disease is a developmental disease, its prognosis is mainly related to whether the patient can be treated in a timely manner, and can not be completely cured, so when suffering from Meniere’s disease, you need to actively seek medical treatment, timely compliance with the doctor’s instructions standardized treatment, to try to avoid the occurrence of irreversible gradual hearing loss, or even lifelong deafness.