What are cochlear hydropsy?
Cochlear Hydrops is the condition of the inner ear. Some medical experts believe that it may be a form of Meniere's disease or perhaps an early phase of the disease that eventually develops to include all symptoms of real condition. However, others disagree. Both conditions share symptoms of auditory fullness, tinnitus and hearing loss, but unlike Meniere's disease, cochlear hydrops usually does not cause dizziness. Meniere's disease can cause the fluid to accumulate in cochlear and vestibular chambers of inner ear, and therefore some doctors think that these two are connected. Others believe that because this condition does not necessarily affect the vestibular chamber of inner ear, it is most likely a clear disease. The excess fluid in the cochlear chamber can exert abnormal pressure on the cochle, leading to tinnitus, loss of hearing and feelings of fullness or pressure inside the ear. Hearing loss associated with this condition generally disrupts the ability of patients to hear a lower playground first, but then usually the procedureHe is on a higher playground. There may be sounds of ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus, and the sounds are often low.
This condition generally has a variable effect on hearing and the degree of patient symptoms can change from one day to the next. Patients with a diagnosis of cochlear hydrops can even experience days without symptoms. Symptoms generally monitor the formula in which the feelings of pressure in the ear, followed by the scattering of the tinnitus follow, follows the restored ability to hear. When the symptoms return, the auditory fullness and tinnitus generally start at the same time.
Cochlear Hydrops can sometimes be poorly diagnosed as a dysfunction of Eustachian tubes that help regulate the pressure levels on both sides of the ear drum. However, this condition occurs most often in only one ear, usually leaving the other unaffected.