Treatment of vestibular dysfunction

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Vestibular dysfunction is a common disease that occurs in all ages. Vestibular dysfunction makes patients face many difficulties in life and activities. Early treatment to help patients with vestibular dysfunction will help better improve symptoms.

1. Is vestibular dysfunction dangerous?

Vestibular dysfunction is not a serious illness or a disease with no cure. However, whether the disease is dangerous or not depends on the patient.
Dizziness is a common symptom when you have vestibular disorders, if it occurs frequently, making you unable to keep your balance when moving, it can affect your life. Vestibular disorders make you limited in daily activities, you are less active, causing a number of other diseases, unable to focus on work, reduced work efficiency, and decreased quality. Especially, it will be extremely dangerous if you join the traffic.
Symptoms of tinnitus, if it occurs frequently, can cause you to lose your hearing.

2. Treatment of vestibular dysfunction

Treatment of vestibular dysfunction through treating the cause and symptoms of the disease. Some of the causes and symptoms of vestibular disorders and their treatment are as follows:
Benign vertigo: This is the most common cause, making you feel dizzy, making your daily activities become difficult. should be more difficult. Inside the ear is an organ called the vestibular labyrinth, which consists of three loop-shaped structures that contain fluid that sense when the head is turned. The ear structures track the movement of the head up and down. These organs contain crystals that make them sensitive to motion and gravity. It is possible that these crystals are in the wrong position, leading to you feeling dizzy when changing positions. Vertigo can be treated through a series of head movements that your doctor will guide you through, helping to get these crystals back into place.
Otitis : This is a form of ear infection, it occurs when the thin structure deep inside your ear becomes inflamed. This affects your hearing, you will feel ear pain, pus or fluid from the ear, nausea, high fever. If your ear infection is caused by an infection, you can take antibiotics to reduce inflammation or some other medicine to prevent vomiting or dizziness.

Meniere's disease: People with this disorder often have sudden attacks of dizziness, ringing in the ears....due to too much fluid in the ears, or viruses...Hearing loss may occur in some cases. fit. To minimize this condition, it is necessary to make lifestyle changes such as cutting down on salt, caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco. In some cases, surgery is needed to relieve symptoms.
Tumor in the ear: It can grow slowly but compresses the nerves that control your hearing and balance, causing you to experience hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness. In some cases, the tumor can press on a nerve, causing your face to become numb. To treat it, your doctor will perform surgery or radiation to stop it from growing.
Chemicals: Certain chemicals can damage your ears. You can stop taking the medicine to get better or stay away from harmful chemicals. Enlarged vestibule: If the vestibule is larger than it should be, it can cause hearing loss. The cause of an enlarged vestibule has not been precisely determined, but it is predicted that it may be genetic. Enlarged vestibule has no cure. The best way to protect hearing is to avoid sports that lead to head injury and to avoid activities with rapid pressure changes such as diving...
Vestibular migraine : Due to incorrect signals from the brain can make you feel severe headache, dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision... Your doctor will give you medicine to prevent vestibular migraine, reduce symptoms. For people with tinnitus vertigo, some will be able to improve the condition even without treatment, others only improve with exercise. Keeping active is very important even if it makes you dizzy, one of the best ways to improve that is to fix the problem in your ear.
Medicines will be prescribed by the doctor when necessary, but still giving priority to physical therapy to improve the symptoms of the disease. It is necessary to treat problems in the ear early to reduce dizziness and help the patient recover quickly. The problems in the ear are not the same, so the physical therapy exercises will also be different.
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Reference article source: Webmd.com