Is Meniere's disease hereditary

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Some of the diseases in our lives are inherited. There are also some diseases are caused by acquired environment or human factors, genetic disease is also a more common way of patients. Meniere's disease about whether it is a genetic disease is controversial, let's talk about Meniere's disease is genetic.

Is Meniere's disease hereditary

First: Meniere's disease is an idiopathic inner ear disease, once called Meniere's disease, which was first proposed by the French physician prosper m é Ni è re in 1861. The main pathological change of the disease is hydrolabyrinthine, and its clinical manifestations are recurrent rotational vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus and ear tightness. This disease mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people aged from 30 to 50 years old, and is rare in children. There was no significant difference between male and female.

Second: most of them are sudden onset of rotational vertigo. Patients often feel that the objects around them rotate in a certain direction, and the symptoms can be alleviated when they close their eyes. Often accompanied with nausea, vomiting, pale, cold sweat, blood pressure drop and other autonomic nerve reflex symptoms. Any movement of the head can aggravate the vertigo. The patient's consciousness is always clear, individual patients even if suddenly fall, also keep awake.

Third: the early stage of sensorineural hearing loss is characterized by low-frequency decline, which can be fluctuating, hearing loss during attack, and partial or complete recovery during intermission. With the development of the disease, hearing loss can be gradually aggravated, and high frequency (2-8khz) hearing loss gradually appears. There is also a special phenomenon of hearing change in this disease: double hearing phenomenon, that is, the affected ear and healthy ear can hear the same pure tone into two different tones and timbres, or there is a tail sound in the voice.

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With the above three explanations, we can see that Meniere's disease is not a congenital genetic disease, which is mainly caused by frequent vertigo or tinnitus. This is not a very serious disease, if the treatment is appropriate, it is likely to be treated.